Steven Gabel - Post Fue 5 weeks

[jamesosterberg]

Here are some pictures after 5 weeks post fue so i'm now shedding quite a bit. Procedure was done by Dr. Steven Gabel. To fill in sides and temples from an early procedure where the sides never were as dense / filled as i had hoped. 

Pictures from 3rd day post fue & 5 weeks

i will be posting pictures from his office shortly and telling what my expierence was like.

Of course i'm curious about comments. 

1,700 grafts - fill in sides / temples

 

[HappyMan2021]

@jamesosterberg what made you go with Dr. Gabel in the first place? Do you recommend him?

Most of his reviews are good, but most of the reviews are from years ago...its hard finding anything past 2021 from the forums.

I am considering him, and validation from one of his very recent patients would be helpful. 

[A_4_Archan]

@jamesosterbergwork looks clean..how many grafts and please do post your pre op pics and immediate post op pics as well...

[rumblefish7194]

Hi. thanks for the replies. 1,700 grafts. I will get the pre pop picts asap. 

Why did i choose Dr. Gabel. Well. I spoke to some people on here about him. Then i spoke with Dr. Konior who recommended him along with two other surgeons. At the time i didn't know he was trained under him.  Did some more research. Spoke to some people directly on here. My expierence was pretty much perfect. He did 99 percent of the work himself. Was in constant communication with me before and after the procedure. If i emailed him today i would here from him most likely tomorrow. The work he did was very clean and i've looked pretty normal since. At this point i can only speak about my expierence with him since i'm only 5 weeks out. But he was extremely enthusiastic, he constantly wanted to see how i was doing, he has some techs helping him out but like i said he did most of the work himself. Only time a tech was involved, he did most of the graft placement himself, but he did have a tech put in some grafts but he stood by her making sure she did exactly how he wanted. I'm not doing a great job promoting for him at the moment. But that's just cause i'm tired. But i also feel what matters most is the result. In terms of his work i can only go what i think and the people i've spoken on here about. That it's excellent. More than anything he seemed very concerned and passionate about wanting the results to be perfect.

When i speak with him I will try to get the Photos from his office of pictures before and after the procedure. 

Personally, I thought it was a positive thing that he didn't ask or hope if i would write up some review. 

 

 

[HappyMan2021]

5 minutes ago, rumblefish7194 said:

Hi. thanks for the replies. 1,700 grafts. I will get the pre pop picts asap. 

Why did i choose Dr. Gabel. Well. I spoke to some people on here about him. Then i spoke with Dr. Konior who recommended him along with two other surgeons. At the time i didn't know he was trained under him.  Did some more research. Spoke to some people directly on here. My expierence was pretty much perfect. He did 99 percent of the work himself. Was in constant communication with me before and after the procedure. If i emailed him today i would here from him most likely tomorrow. The work he did was very clean and i've looked pretty normal since. At this point i can only speak about my expierence with him since i'm only 5 weeks out. But he was extremely enthusiastic, he constantly wanted to see how i was doing, he has some techs helping him out but like i said he did most of the work himself. Only time a tech was involved, he did most of the graft placement himself, but he did have a tech put in some grafts but he stood by her making sure she did exactly how he wanted. I'm not doing a great job promoting for him at the moment. But that's just cause i'm tired. But i also feel what matters most is the result. In terms of his work i can only go what i think and the people i've spoken on here about. That it's excellent. More than anything he seemed very concerned and passionate about wanting the results to be perfect.

When i speak with him I will try to get the Photos from his office of pictures before and after the procedure. 

Personally, I thought it was a positive thing that he didn't ask or hope if i would write up some review. 

I'm confused @rumblefish7194 are you the same person as @jamesosterberg ????

Regardless this was a very helpful review of Dr. Gabel, thanks. 

[jamesosterberg]

Hi. Yes. This is both rumblefish and james osterberg. 

[jamesosterberg]

I will continue posting as weeks go by. I also want to write a much clearer and the amazing experience i had with Gabel.  

[rumblefish7194]

I wanted to post some photos. hopefully they will be organized. The first photos are after my first procedure which i was generally very happy with. So it was somewhat of a mood oriented battle as to whether to get a second one. i wasn't happy with how the right side came out compared to the left.  And went to Dr. Gabel to have this filled in along with other areas he thought could be improved from the first surgery. Like i said i was happy with the first procedure in the sense nobody had a clue i had work done, i though the density was excellent except for the right side. Which i felt like maybe 50 percent less growth.

 

when it comes to a second transplant i'm curious how it works in terms of the hairs you had implanted first. Do those grow back normally so basically everything you see is from the first transplant plus. But i can see a difference on the right side. 

Hair transplants are kind of a mystrey. So i just hope that the right side equals out to the left in the end. Then i would be happy.

I'm currently on topical finasteride / minoxidil - gabel called into the pharmaacy

vitamins, biotine, MSM, pumpkin seed,

In terms of shampoo gabel didn't have a big belief that they made a difference. Though i had some GROW MD left over so i've been using that. People are free to laugh about grow md. Since ive yet to see anyting positive about it and it is promoted by someone who seems to have a personal interest. 

 

After first Fue

so basically i was looking to get the right side filled in. After meeting with Gabel, we did a zoom for maybe 90 minutes, time was never as issue with him. Then when I first went to his office we spent at least an hour or so going over what he considered not great growth from the first HT. Plus he doesn't like using the robot. He was in the room with me for basically 100 percent of the time. All extractions were done by him alone. He put the grafts in himself as well. With some small help from the techs - but he was there the entire time to over see what they were doing. He had me come back the next two days. Spent probably an hour with me each time. He also used ...what is it called one of those hyperbaric oxygen machines. Which i used both days after the procedure. 

I'm still waiting to get the photos from his office. They must have taken at least 50 photos i'm guessing.

This is 1 weeks post fue

 

 

these are 3 weeks after

 

 

 

Okay and finally i believe monday will be six weeks - as you can see the shedding has begun to place. Of course i am incredibly paranoid about the right side growing in since it didn't last time. But i think that was because two techs put all the grafts in and one of them, i'm guessing, did a better job. The previous surgeon I saw used the Robot and i was not nearly as involved in every possible aspect.

 

 

 

Thank you everyone. And any comments good or bad are most welcome. I will continue to keep posting every couple weeks. I am still holding out on dying my hair since i liked what i was told by some of the senior members about waiting. I hate having grey hair.

[zenmu]

look forward to more updates 

[Recession1]

Do you have any pictures prior to your first surgery? 

[Merchmom]

I am a female scheduled with Dr. Gabel in April. I backed out of my first scheduled surgery due to anxiety over recovery phase. How has your mental state been during recovery? Any regrets or disappointment over having the procedure with Dr. Gabel?

 

[rumblefish7194]

Hi. i'm back. Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. It's super confusing. It's only been about 3.5 months and i emailed with Gabel last week and he said you really shouldn't see any new growth until the 4th or 5th month. But on this site it seems like some people have huge amounts of hair in 3 months.

Mental state? That's been different the second time. I would say it's actually been harder because i'm already worried about the right side failing to grow again. I've had zero issues post surgery. I mean nothing. That has been pretty flawless. Gabel also is great about responding to emails. Usually the same day.

At this point it's impossible for me to be disappointed since it's only been 3.5 months. But in the past few weeks it feels like the right side has actually filled in more than it had after the first HT. So in those moments i feel like i picked a brilliant surgeon and all i have to do is wait and trust him. But it's a moody experience. But "i think" after only 3.5 months the growth has been quite good. 

But there have been moments where i've looked in the mirror and thought "oh man this isn't working" 

But unlike the first surgeon he personally put the grafts in my scalp himself and not a tech. 

But i've found the second transplant very different in terms of how it grows. It's only been 3.5 months but it seems like all my original hair has grown back so it looks pretty much like it did after the first HT. But it actually does seem like i am having new growth on the previously failed right side. Especially within the last few weeks. But it's been strange in the sense that i don't see new hair sprouting. I would imagine that's because the new grafts are planted in between where the original HT was done.

I will upload some photos from 3.5 months and i will be curious if you see a difference in general. There are moments where i feel like i picked a great great surgeon and i have nothing to worry about. But of course i have periods where i'm like "Man. It's going to happen again. It's not going to grow on that side"

But like i said i do think the right side has increased growth since the last photos i posted. And if that is the case i can't tell you how happy i would be and would be more than thankful and grateful too Gabel.  I haven't had 6 hair transplants so my knowledge is somewhat limited. 

But if i'm right that there has been new growth on the right side. I can only thing i'm on my way to something that would make me really happy. Especially since he put grafts in both sides and the middle.

thanks 

[rumblefish7194]

I should say that the pictures aren't totally fair. The right side is still not as full as the left. It looks like it is in these photos. But it does seem like a big difference. And if that is the case. I will be incredibly grateful