I had a ht a on jan 24,2001, just for the scar on the top of my head which is about 6 square cm and caused by scald when I was a baby. So you see the scab wass quite big and solid that it covered all the scar area on my top, and didn't fall even after 13 days, then I phoned the doctor, he told me to try to make it off as soon as possible, so I rub them when I wash my head sometime use my nails, my scalp almost all cleared 18 days after sugury,but 70 percent of the hair had been pulled off together with the scab ,what's more ,the hair don't seem long when they were still on my head, but when they are off , I found they are 2 times longer in fact and without the white root on its end (which I could find on the normally fallen out hair), and actually I think they are out from the tiny hole on my head, (I could see the tiny hole which is still a little red),though the doctor told me that all the follicle has deeply grown with my scalp after 7 days, I still wonder whether the follicles transplanted are fine or maybe some of them has been pulled out by my wrong action,and I want to know generally how long after the sugury does one's ht hair fallout?(I'm a foreigner,my english is poor,but thank you all for reading my post and will appreciate your help) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Normally, any hair that comes out with or without the scab after 13 days is only hair that is shedding from the shock of the surgery. The hair follicle, which is the important thing that is transplanted, remains in the skin. The new hairs normally take 3 1/2 to 4 months to begin growing. In an area of scar as you describe the hair may actually take longer to grow(several more months) because of the possibility of reduced blood supply to the scar. Two things may affect the above outcome: first, if you truly had a single large thick scar, the blood supply to the area could have been affected from the surgery. second; if you had dug deeply you could have damaged follicles. In either case, you must wait 4-6 months to evaluate the situation. If your doctor hasn't seen you I would strongly suggest that you see him or her.
I didn't dare to dig it deeply, it was really a big single one because the doctor did a lot of mini to archieve a good density just one sugury. it takes 4 to 5 days for me to make the whole scab off,just sometimes I use my nails to help it turn up since it stuck to my scalp too tightly and if I didn't do so,seems it won't get out by itself even after one month.fortunately most of the parts was ok,the scalp under it was pink,some hair fall with scab and some remain, sometimes there are obvious holes which are a little more red but became healed and flat after a few days.(are these kind of things fine and normal?)there was just one accident that once when i was trying to pull one of the scab off, the scab together with some hair are out,there suddenly appear some blood from the hole caused by the mini,not much,but just a little,which already scared me! that blood stopped and form a tiny new scab after 15 minutes,i just wonder whether I hurt the folicle underneath? thanks doctor he told me the blood supply on my original scar was quite good, anyway,maybe because it was not a bumpy one but rather a flat one.
