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Ah, sorry! I posted a 5-month update on Reddit last month but must have forgotten to post it here, my bad! Five month progress pics: [Left Side. Daylight, with back of head facing the vanity light] . [Right side, Daylight, back of head facing the window. Scar is basically invisible from either side, even in fairly bright natural light] . [Rear - crown, scar. Scar area can still be picked out if you know what you're looking for, largely because the scant amount of new hair that has grown in is still all scraggly and not directionally trained yet, and it's also a bit darker than the surrounding hair. Still, it's way better than before (I made a Before/After comparison below) and only in the beginning growth phases] . [Crown, bright natural daylight. Not a lot of hair growing in at only the 5 month mark, but more than there was before; no big obvious bald spot anymore, so that's a great start] . [I'm really pleased with the top/midscalp area; even keeping it shorter than before, no scalp is visible even at only 5 months in] . [Here's a quick top-down comparison of my crown, circa 2019 versus 5 months post-op; I can definitely see some improved density and less exposed scalp, especially around the crown, even in the early phases of growth (5 months is early for me; my first 3 hair transplants didn't significantly grow in or thicken up until the 6-7 month marks)] . [And here's a crazy comparison of my midscalp circa 2019 versus 5 months post-op, with similar vanity lighting and similar hair length; before, you see I was really heavily relying on swirling my hair in a sort of vortex to minimize the appearance of thinness, and even then all the patchy thin spots were pretty clearly visible under bright lights because so much of my native hair had fallen out over the last decade since my first HT (the only other HT that addressed my midscalp, with ~1,770 grafts, IIRC). The crown was also finally really starting to badly die out, and I'd never really addressed that. In the After pic, you can see how dense it is now - I can't see a bit of scalp from this angle! So happy to have a dense mop on top once again!] . [And finally, the rear/scar area; I couldn't find any decent pre-op rear pics, so the left is about 2 months post-op in the midst of shock-loss (hence the thin area between the scar and scalp where follicles were harvested via FUE rather than transplanted into; this area wasn't really thin before, so just ignore that as shock-loss), but you can see the thinness of the crown and especially the baldness of the scar area and how hard it was to try to hide it even with a longer/scruffier haircut than I have in the right-hand pic at 5 months post-op. Although - as I said above - it can still be spotted by a well-trained HT-savvy eye that knows what to look for because the new hairs are still a little darker and not yet directionally trained to blend in, it's still way more subtle than before and I'm really happy so far! Crown density is looking way better too, and will hopefully continue to improve over the next 3+ months.] -
Looking awesome @Steeeve! 💯👊🏻 -
I havent taken a look at your before/after post op. But either they transected your hairs either during extraction and never got a full follicle out or they transected a hair when implanting. Hopefully it was neither but reading the comments about 5.5k is alarming. I think even if it was failed you should consider consulting other physicians/surgeons on their opinion on next steps. What would you ultimately want from anything going forward? Remember, no transplant is truly one and done so do not lose hope in any possibly future development. -
Month 3 update Lots of new hair growing on both sides of the hairline although one side appears to be growing alot faster than the other one. Is this normal? The shockloss which I experienced on the back/side in month 2 no longer appears to be there although these pictures are after I got a to trim the sides to size 2. Crown growth is still quite slow, not sure if I will get much coverage in that area -
I’m going to put together a bigger update but I’m really happy with how my hair looks right now. Today was 6 months. I’ll be back with a regular update but…I’m so happy.
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