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Originally posted by Jupiter:
dude awesome, im 19 and we have very similar hairloss , yours was a bit worse than mine but not by much and im 19 years old your 26. but eitherway really can't wait to see your results in like 6 months its great to see a young guy with a normal hairstyle, keep posting !!! look good though man

thanks mang, ill be 26 in September... but inronically I'll probably look a bit younger... good news awaits hopefully!

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Originally posted by Falceros:
Chris,

Seeing hairs in the scabs as they shed is normal after a hair transplant. Just be sure not to be too aggressive with the scabs and follow your hair transplant surgeon's immediately postoperative instructions on scab removal. As long as you don't see any blood as the scabs fall off, you should be in good shape. The follicular unit graft is embedded deeply and can't be removed by day 9 or 10. The hair will detach itself from the root and eventually shed anyway (with or after the scabs have been removed).

Best wishes,

Falc

Awesome thanks Falc,, I needed that confirmation.

Do you have any suggestions for the post-recovery period? I really want to speed up the hair cycle in the front and beyond.

I'm running the standard Propecia, Minoxidil.
I'm going to dig that laser brush out again.
MSM and this stuff called Toco-8 - Essentially, Vitamin Complexes.
Retiva shampoo.

I was thinking of buying the Tricomin Follicle Therapy Spray. It has Copper peptides and other goodies - as you probably know. Is this all overkill?

I want to know where I stand in 4-6 months, though it's unrealistic to expect complete growth in that time -- I figure I can speed it up somewhat. My hair grows really fast, even when I'm not actively trying to enhance growth - we are talking over an inch in 20-25 days.

AS POSTED ON THE BLOG:
I'M 12 DAYS POST-OP NOW.

THIS FEEDBACK IS MAINLY FROM 7DAYS POST but I included some thoughts from 11days post-op.

*The few remaining black dots are the handful of scabs that still remain. I get so itchy, I had to do my best to lightly rub the area to relieve the itch and shed the scabs. I have been very sucessful and the scabs are shedding naturally. I have lost 2 grafts in the process, enough to piss me off. One was a single hair, another was higher on the head and a 3 :-(. No biggie though, at this point all the grafts are secure.

It is routine to shed the grafts anytime within the first 3 weeks after the procedure. I believe that AT MOST 30-35% of the transplanted grafts have shed. I have retained quite a bit of them. They seem quite happy and are growing. At this point, it's somewhat hard to tell what is a graft and what is a native hair. The grafts have a different texture, they are thicker - certainly thicker than the surrounding hairs on the hairline. There texture is nearly like facial hair. They are wider and as I mentioned: they add noticeable density as is.

I have been ultra careful and overly conservative (if there is such a thing) with my post-op recovery. I still continued all my hair supplements, minus the topical minoxidil which I will resume at 2 weeks post-op.

I had my stitches removed. The doctor at the clinic was astounded. He said that he has removed stitches for hundreds of patients that have work a hair restoration procedure done in the South Florida area - but NEVER has he such precise work as this. He got my contact info and is referring his own son to Dr. Glenn Charles shortly. He even was shocked that I had a procedure done just 11days ago. I was happy.

I'm sort of a unique case, in the shower I will shed 50-100hairs, this has been common.. So it's hard to say this procedure has resulted in 'shock loss'.

Chris HT,

Everything looks great. Thanks for the awesome detailed blog. I love these pre-ht photos that look like someone caught you candid on the shitter. http://www.hairtransplantnetwork.com/blog/content.asp?CopyID=1245&WebID=602

You need to work on the sad look pre-ht and then the post ht beaming happy face. Here is a good example for you.

http://www.hassonandwong.com/patient_gallery/photo_view...ansplant_type=normal

Very nice looking work.

Seems the worst part is over, I had a fair amount of shock loss which has subsided. I'm very happy about the placement of the grafts and that I only used 2,134grafts (~20% of donor supply) to achieve a solid permanent hairline. I'm also happy that Dr. Charles put grafts on/around the hairline that were not really noticably thinning (direct front). It should come together nicely without any concerns for less dense areas.

Again, I prefered to to work in Zone 1 and 2, and apply concealers to the top if need be. I figure the crown will continue to respond to minoxidil and finasteride, whereas the hairline wont. This was my main reason for using Glenn Charles, other doctors wanted to address the crown area only. I can address the crown with concealers it about 20seconds and in the future with grafts if it is concern. I still find it amazing that many patient-reps kept telling me what I should do, rather than ever asking me.

Anyway, I'm using Revita, megadosing MSM caps, Minoxidil and Propecia - hopefully this will get the grafts growing faster than usual.

Just tossing in a bit of an update... Things are great, Proscar is crazy effective and I've got growth in areas that have been alseep for 3-4 years - these aren't even the new grafts. I'm at the 2month 3week period basically and the hair has never been thicker... Can't wait for the grafts to spurt. The shock loss period was kind of upseting and that had ended truly only about 3 weeks ago. Since, however, crazy growth.