Hair transplant diary (ongoing)

Sorry if this is has been asked 1000 times before but are you left looking like Frankensteins monster after a HT? Let's say the procedure is 4,000 - 5000 grafts? If so, roughly for how long?

Thanks for that. Getting HT done this week so was curious. I may make the Christmas drinking sessions yet!

I'm just back home today recovering from my op.

The toughest part for me were the initial injections into the head, which are required to apply the local anaesthetic. These injections were really painful tbh but it's over within a minute or so and after that you can't feel anything.

Everything after that is relatively plain sailing, I even fell asleep for a little while at one point.

Went with Dr Nel after doing some research, most of which was on this thread. I should say thanks to all who have contributed to this thread, it's an invaluable resource for guys in our position.

Mine was just over 5,000 grafts. I didn't shave my head so it cost me a little extra, about 18k all in. Can only echo what's been said about Dr Nel on the thread, I had a great experience and he definitely helped put my mind at ease throughout. Staff were very friendly and reassuring and you're well looked after. So glad I took the step and it's done now.

Proscar (fin) and loniten, dermaroller and nizoral shampoo once fifteen days has passed post procedure.

I've been taking fin for about six weeks now and no side effects to speak of.

And thanks! 10 days or so of sitting on the couch for me now.

Yup, big enough job. >5k grafts over two days, also didn't shave my head (my choice) which makes it a bit more expensive.

Extraction of follicles and implants to frontal core on the first day. The remaining follicles were extracted the next day with implants to mid scalp and crown. The whole head done basically. My hair is pretty thin / fine as is so required a good number of grafts.

They're long enough days. First day was 13 hours or so, second day was a bit shorter, about 10 hours I think. He likes to "break the back" of it so to speak and get the bulk of the work done on the first day, it makes the second day a bit easier too.

He said he over shoots the amount of follicles i.e you actually end up getting more than you are quoted in the email but you are obviously not charged any extra. I left it up to his judgement as to how many to put in, I never considered asking for more but I'm sure it's something you could do.

That one will do fine, it has titanium needles which is what you want.

Very interesting read about some of the daily insecurities about baldness we go through:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tressless/comments/rdoymy/professor_made_fun_of_me_for_being_bald_in_the/

So for context, I'm a 22 year old with pretty advanced hair loss. Currently I've been keeping my hair super short as when it's grown out, It looks really bad.

A couple days ago I was in class which was meeting via zoom. Everyone in the class was working separately on individual projects and our cameras were all on.

While I was working, my Professor picked up his baby. The baby started looking at his computer screen and my Prof started playing with him and said "Look! That's u/samichwarrior! You have more hair than u/samichwarrior!"

Now. His comments made me feel like **** but i didn't say anything. I've gotta ask, am I right to be offended? I've asked my friends and parents and they were all in disbelief that he would say something like that in front of me.

Personally I would never comment on someone's physical appearance like that. I'm constantly obsessing over my lack of hair and I hate being bald. Can you imagine if I had said "Look! That's Tim! You're almost as chubby as Tim!" That would be totally unacceptable.

I'd appreciate suggestions of what I should do in this case. I've been considering emailing him because he might just be clueless as to how upsetting hair loss can be to someone. I hope that I can inform him so that he doesn't say that kind of stuff to future bald students.

Also, I'd like to take a moment to just express how bizarre it is that this insanely progressive professor is the one to make fun of my appearance. This guy's about as socially left-leaning as you can get. He was honestly the last person I'd expect to do this.

He might have but I don't recall. Meeting him next week for post op checkup so will ask then.

From day 15 onwards I'm to shower as normal using nizoral shampoo so I would assume dermaroller use probably starts then but I might leave it another few weeks to let things fully settle down.

Not a chance,ask then who their surgeon is and specific close up before and afters from him or her.

Yeah there bad mate.

Heres a question does Derma rolling actual work and has anyone tried it? I was thinking of giving it a go with Rogaine to thicken my hair but like most hair products a lot are a waste of money!

How do you clean the dermaroller?

Also someone in here asked the last day - I was told to start on the dermaroller 4 weeks post HT.

"Sadly, the hair on the right side did not take so well" - What does that mean? Some of your transplanted follicles fell out?