is there any shock loss after a fue transplant? the procedure is the same (graft shedding etc.)?

shock loss in the recipient area would be apple 4 apple, yen 4 yen, Alba 4 Alba the same...the donor area, I *think* one would not experience any shock loss, but Im not sure...hmmmm interesting. vewy, vewy intewesting...

why would the donor area experience shock loss..?

I don't *think* it does in any way.

Donor area shockloss can happen, strip or FUE, although it must be said it is quite rare.

Since we are using 0,7 mm FUE instruments we have never had a case of major donor shockloss. This is also a reason why we are not offering 3000+ FUE grafts in 1 session. At this moment we dont have enough experience to know wheter or not donor area shockloss becomes more of an issue when going for 4000 or more FUE in 1 session.

Bart is right, shock loss can occur in the donor area. If you see my second strip surgery, I had shock loss around the scar and by 6 months, all the hair had regrown.

It can happen with FUE also.

Falc

I have heard of a few cases but it was with larger punch grafts.

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I don't *think* it does in any way.

Yes shock can occur in the donor area - it can although very rare. I experienced it when I had my FUE procedure with Dr Jones back in October 03. I don't think anyone else has experienced it quite this bad - luckily!

I had a completely bald area the size of a fist on the side of my head for 3 months - will dig out a pic.
The hair ALL grew back, thank God! The time it took for the area to grow back was one of the toughest stretches i ever had to do. I had a great selection of beanie hats


My other FUE surgeries with Dr Feller I believe the punches used were 0.8mm +0.9mm punches and I experience no shock loss whatsoever.

Shockloss in donor pic


A year after approx

Spex,

huh I had never heard of this...guess the benefits of FUE aren't *as* wide sweeping as I had thought...were Jones 'punches' significantly larger; and if so, is this what the shock loss was attributed to?

You learn something new everyday in this great place! - Even you bro!

Why this occured we still do not know.... There is info on it on an old post i will dig it out off another forum.

Here is some info - I have copy/pasted from another forum -

Notgoing2, I will PM you


Dr Feller -

"The size of the punch has very little to do with shockloss.

Shockloss is a function of VASCULAR compromise, NOT the size of the hole.

The real question is the DEPTH to which the punch is sunk. This is what truely matters because the blood supply lies deep to the dermis. Go TOO deep with ANY instrument AND cut enough arterioles and you may get shockloss.

Period.

Spex,
I don't think your area was "over harvested", I just think that you had a slightlylower than normal vascular plexis in that area. When your FUE was performed by Dr. Jones, he may just have been unlucky enough to hit enough significant arterioles (small arteries) for the area to become deprived of the blood supply it needed to function normally. The hair cells in that area "sensed" that there wasn't enough circulation so they went into "standby" mode, until it was re-established. Then they simply woke up. This also happens with blunt trauma where the skin itself isn't broken, but the shear impulse force of the trauma and resultant swelling forces the follicles into "protection" mode. I have yet to see such traumatic induced hairloss not return to it's full and normal state.

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Hope the info helps

Thats some bad shockloss Spex ,just as well it all grew back.

Very interesting that pated post as i feel this may of happened with my dhi fue.I`ll never know now though.

Thanks.

Indeed - the shockloss was a shocker - literaly! I lived under a beanie hat for 4/5 months - i know all about down time

Spex's shock loss is an extreme example in FUE. From my own observations, shock loss is less common and less severe with FUE.

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Spex's shock loss is an extreme example in FUE. From my own observations, shock loss is less common and less severe with FUE.

Indeed - I agree!