Hi all HT patients.

Just curious?? What day did you start losing your grafts after surgery? Generally, they say it can happen 1 week - 3 weeks..

MOST of mine started jumping ship around the 2 week mark. I'd say by 4 weeks all that were going to leave were gone (traitors!! )

Thanks Bank.. Almost 3 weeks mine are still here?? I highly doubt they will stay

For me, they started around the 2 week mark and were mostly if not all gone by the 3 week mark.

Mrjb,

Fear or fear not...they won't all stay...wish they would but the never do. Some people lose them late, even after 4 weeks. There area couple threads here and there with hopefuls who still have the majority of their grafts by week 4 and then by week 6 or 7, they're all gone...sad but true. But you know the drill....they return and oh happy days!

Falc

2-4 weeks---- bye bye little fella's

They will all return though...... TRIUMPHANTLY!!!!!!!!!!

Mine started to shed late, past week 3, and were mostly gone by week 6. A surprising amount hung around, though, and ended up growing!

I held on to mine for about 5-6 weeks. Just when I was convinced I was going to be one of the lucky ones & keep all my transplanted hairs...

I'm guessing I might still be holding on to about 5-10% of original transplanted hair and I'm about a week past the 3 month mark (not the most exciting time in the HT process).

None of my grafts shed for the first two weeks. However, as soon as I started washing my hair normally at day 14 (in accordance with my post-op instructions), the scabs were falling out like crazy with a small hair shaft within. I am now 6 full weeks after my HT, and I would say I still retain about 10%-15% of the transplanted hair that are now actually growing longer.

During my HT with Dr. Cooley, I specifically asked him about graft shedding. Believe it or not, he said there is actually a very small percentage of his HT patients who held onto ALL their transplated grafts that just kept growing. If he was to put it in numbers, he would say about 1 out of 20. He also said he wished he knew why, so he could make it happen every time ......

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During my HT with Dr. Cooley, I specifically asked him about graft shedding. Believe it or not, he said there is actually a very small percentage of his HT patients who held onto ALL their transplated grafts that just kept growing. If he was to put it in numbers, he would say about 1 out of 20. He also said he wished he knew why, so he could make it happen every time ......

Very interesting...I'm sure there are doctors working on discovering a way to do this...but seemingly, it is not the norm for this to happen. In fact, I have yet to run into one person on any forum that claims that this has happened...but wouldn't it be awesome if it did happen all the time?

Falc

2 weeks all gone . The old 2&3 Nuhart hairline grafts are saying hello to everyonre again

Thanks all for your input

As I said, I know it's a matter of time ( haha I feel like a newbie) . I am at a day before three weeks and they are still hanging on. i have no expectation that they will stay but hey, they are past the "stubble phase.

Cheer mates

had mine till i started shampooing normally then they took about 2 weeks to jump ship

I'm like most of the others -- 10d - 2weeks and they were all gone.

Miles

Mine left around 10-14 days. I was happy to see them go, maybe it means they will come back sooner!

This may sound odd, but I am hoping a lot of the front ones don't hang on too long. I would prefer they shed and then come back in over time so it appears more natural regrowth. I am kinda nervous about walking into the office after two weeks and having a five o'clock shadow on the front of my new head. ALready trying to figure out a new hair cut to blend it a bit.

2 weeks approx

I just hi 3 weeks , no shedding yet ?

It would be neat if we create a chart and find out the average number of days it took for the new grafts to grow in correlation to how early the grafts shed after the HT. We would be able to see the relationship between the two!

Good post MRJB

I started shedding the transplanted hairs at 16 days, but managed to hang on to maybe 25-30% in total. The funny thing was that at 14 days, the scabs were resting on top of the hairs. They were no longer attached to the scalp, but I was so nervous about dislodging the grafts and so gentle with maintenance that the scabs eventually were just hanging on to the tips of the hairs and I couldn't bring myself to slide them off. Two weeks after the procedure, I finally got a little rougher with massaging the grafts with shampoo to get the scabs off, and a few days after that I noticed some of the hairs finally coming off. I remember freaking out during the first week because at the time I had read on a few generic, anonymous hair transplant info websites that all scabs, pinkness, and transplanted hairs should be gone 3-4 days after the procedure. What a bunch of b.s. I could have saved myself from a few panic attacks had I come here back then, although in retrospect I don't see why retaining all the hairs two weeks later scared me since common logic suggests that they were not damaged in that case.

Mine started falling out in week two and are almost all gone (90%) now ...which is week 5