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I had a hair transplant done
10-11-2013, 10:39 AM
I did it in LA. PM me for the docs name. It was $6 per graft for FUE, $4 for FUT.
Never heard of charging per hair. Hair grows in groups of 1, 2s, and 3s, just look at your arm hair closely.
The front of my new hairline will be grafts of 1s. Behind it goes 2s and 3s.
After taking 3 advil pm tabs last night at 9pm. I woke up at 7am feeling pretty normal. Just slight swelling on my scalp where they did the transplant. I'm going in again this morning so that they can teach me how to wash the area properly.
I might not have mentioned that the doc claimed a 95% retention rate of the transplanted grafts if well cared for in the first week. I plan to be incredibly careful. Lots ofreading for the next five days.
Anti iinflammatory foods is a good idea, however, they gave me s steroid pill for that.
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10-11-2013, 10:45 AM
You have to trust the doc for numbers. The assistants are giving you the count the whole time. If they really wanted to F me, they could have I guess. That's why you deal with reputable people and do your research.
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10-11-2013, 11:31 AM
CaP7, thanks for sharing your experience. I hope you get the results you want.
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10-12-2013, 10:12 AM
Another thing to note is the swelling period afterwards.
I look like a Klingon without the wrinkles in my forehead. My temples are swollen about a 1/2 inch on each side. I can't wrinkly my forehead skin at all through moving my eyes.
Again, they don't tell you up front that you will be needled with local anesthesia about 50 times. I'm on day 2 of 4 in the recovery period. Fortunately I have plenty of books and work to catch up on.
Sleeping in the upright position requires tyelynol PM for my too.
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I had a hair transplant done
11-08-2013, 09:19 AM
Does it leave a scar? I shave my bead, not bald but very close. It's my preferred hair choice, and Id do it regardless if I had a full head of hair or not. Would there be scars showing if I shaved my head after a transplant?
For reference, my hair is about the same length as my avatar, but I'm balding much worse than GSP is.
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11-08-2013, 01:53 PM
I'll have a larger update for everyone when I get some time on my laptop.
After day 4, the swelling was down significantly. I went to party in Scottsdale with my shaved head on day 7. Nobody could tell. By then all the red dots disappeared and the scabs flaked off.
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11-09-2013, 01:42 AM
Re-reading this last page, and I don't have a large amount to add.
Couple of things to note on FUE:
-Sensitivity of the scalp for 2-3 weeks afterwards. If I didn't take advil before I went to sleep at night, I would wake up with pain until about day 8.
-The area that was done seems thinner, now that it's growing back. That area of the front scalp was highly impacted for me.
-I had a 1 inch strip across the top of my entire forehead done, which equated to 1,500 grafts. I've been on finesteride for the past 3 months to stop/add to my crown. I still have 30% thickness on my crown, but if I ignored it, it would be much worse very soon. I'll type up my Finesteride side effects in that thread.
Like I said earlier, you need a full 7 days to heal, after that, no one can really tell anything except that your hair is now short.
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I had a hair transplant done
11-11-2013, 11:45 AM
Ok, this is how it goes.
Hair transplant is not for everyone. There are a lot of factors that come into play. The younger you are the more you should think about it.
It depends on your donor hair (the hair at the back of your scalp), Aggression of your balding pattern and so on. If you are in your late twenties your transplant might take you to your late thirties.
It is important to note that you will probably need future transplants and if you do not have enough donor hair supply you are basically fucked with a big scar at the back of your head. FUE could help you there but it cannot extract as much donor as Strip.
My advice, get a wig...new technologies have made them almost undetectable...you do not need that 6 month waiting time where your hair is growing back too.
There is japanese tech where the wig is sewn into the skin of your scalp so it is very secure.
Get a wig,wait it out....hair transplants are too risky. More technology is coming...