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Originally posted by hairbank:
We all heal a little differently, but I'll share my experience. For starters, I've had two HT's. The first was a little over a year ago, the second was just 13 days ago.

First HT was only 1200 FUT's and the tightness was gone after a couple of months for sure. I don't remember swelling past the first week or two......there might have been a little. If you continue to have it try icing it for 5 minutes or so several times a day and that should help.

As for right now (13 days post-op 2nd HT) I have no swelling on the donor area but it's still a little tight, not bad. I had more FUT's (3886) this time so I imagine that's a factor for tightness.

Also, I had sutures the first time and staples the second. To me, the staples seem to have been superior to this point. I remember having a lot of scabbing with the sutures while I have virtually none with the staples and the scar is healing very thin.

Just my opinion but I think 1 year is a long time to have tightness. I would think it should be gone at about the 3-4 month mark, maybe a little longer for a big session.

Hairbank

1st HT 1-18-05 - 1200 FUT's
2nd HT 2-15-06 - 3886 FUT's Dr. Wong
3rd HT 4-24-08 - 2415 FUT's Dr. Wong

GRAND TOTAL: 7501 GRAFTS

current regimen: 1.25mg finasteride every other day

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