How long after a HT do you think i would have to wait before i could climb 14,000 feet mountains again?
Give it a week or so, then whenever you feel ready after that should be fine! I generally tell people that they could even run a marathon a week after a hair transplant. One man thought that was great, because he never was able to run a marathon before he had a hair transplant.
Is it safe to use minoxigel 5% after hair transplantation? my transplanted hair falling down. its just second month after my transplantation.
It’s very common for transplanted hair to fall out after the surgery and go through a dormant phase. It will regrow in a few months. Talk to your surgeon about aftercare. I’m surprised your doctor didn’t explain what to expect following your hair transplant.
I’m not familiar with minoxigel (unless you mean minoxidil), but if you’re two months out of surgery it should be safe.
My question is about coping with hair transplants. It seems like one of the biggest challenges/inconvenience of transplants is for patients to go out in public and resume their daily responsibilities after surgery because of the physical appearance of the scalp and how it initially is red, scabby, and punctured after surgery. I find this a very unappealing aspect about transplants and Im wondering how do patients cope considering the gruesome appearance of the scalp after surgery- do they take time off work and just lock themselves in their house until their scalp starts healing?
The scabbing can be easily addressed with good techniques and small wounds by the surgeon. Add good daily washes and most patients will have no significant crusting after the surgery. Everyone is different, but in regards to redness, only a few patients develop this. You can usually find out if you are one of them by performing a scratch test on the skin of your forehead. If it turns red 2-5 minutes after the scratch is performed, then you run a high risk of redness after surgery. The scratch incites histamine release at the skin level.
Remember, no matter how you want to look at it, a hair transplant is a cosmetic surgery. Just like any nose job, face lift, etc, there will be healing time needed. Some patients might get permission to wear a hat to work, others might adopt a new styling method to cover any initial redness from the surgery. Many of our patients go back to work fairly quickly after surgery (usually 2-5 days).
Hi there,
Im 8 weeks post op…I had 4200 grafts done…Everything went well and i seem to have had no problems at all really other than my head feels like i have sunburn…It only stings for a few second if i touch it,other than that its not sore….Just wanted to see if thats normal? Would greatly appreciate your advice on this…Thanks
At 8 weeks after your hair transplant, you should feel normal without pain. I suggest that you see your surgeon and get his opinion.
I just had a hair transplant procedure performed on 12-06-11. I was given one of those surgical caps to wear on my head to help shield my scalp, but my scalp was still bleeding a little. I went to sleep with the cap on and woke up the next day trying to remove the cap. I could not remove the front part of the cap because the blood had dried up and become stuck to some of the areas where the grafts had been put in. I tried pulling gently on the cap that was stuck to the area where some of my grafts where placed and managed to pull it off but it came off with a good amount of scab and what I believe to be a single hair follicle.
Now I am worried that I ruined my hair line and the surgeon may not be able to do anything about it. Is it possible to have another hair follicle out in to replace the one that i accidently removed?
A surgical cap should never be worn to cover the grafts, for as you said, this could be a problem.
You should ask your doctor about the loss of grafts. If you only lost one graft, then consider yourself lucky.
When is it ok to have hot baths after a hair transplant without effecting new hair growth?
Always ask your doctor about post operative instructions, as certain doctors are particular about their post operative regimen. If you want to have a hot bath a couple of days after a hair transplant, go for it… just do not submerge your head.
Dear Dr!
First, excuse my “not so good” English as I am not native English speaking. I had a FUE (1500 grafts) hair transplant done 3 weeks ago. Today, I joined a short flight (half an hour) with a small (2 seats) air-screw-plane with my brother in law who is an enthusiastic hobby-pilot.i know that there is no problem to fly with a regular (big) commercial airplane. but these planes have cabins with controlled air pressure and so on. what about these small planes where there is no hermetic cabin and no controlled air pressure? we were flying as high as 3000 meters and during the descent i experienced some headache behind my front (the space right above my eyebrows). now I am worried that the change of air pressure during the flight only 3 weeks after the
transplant could have damaged my grafts due to changes of the vasculature. are these worries without any reason or not? I am very concerned about this.
Thank you very much for your answer. kind regards.
Hair transplants should be considered fully healed by the third week after the procedure, which means that nothing that you would reasonably do can negatively impact the growth of the grafts… even flying, as you have described.
Dear Dr Rassman
Im a keen reader of your website and user of Propecia. Interesting article in the Daily Mail UK.Link: How Wayne Rooney’s hair loss cure could help boost your performance
I’m not sure about the extra muscle mass but the other effects apply to me. Though as the article suggests they could be psychosomatic.
Best Regards
Increased confidence and self-esteem in oneself is probably the most common result of a hair transplant or a successful reversal of hair loss with drugs like Rogaine and/or Propecia.
I will tell you about a man I transplanted some years ago. He was a very successful man who made millions of dollars taking over troubled companies and turning them around. He presented as a Norwood class 4 pattern balding patient who had two hair transplants over a one year period. He was a happy camper after his hair restoration. If you put him into a room with 100 men (even before his hair transplant) his dynamic personality would project so well that people would gather around him hoping that this charisma would rub off. That part of his career did not change after his hair transplant, as he was (and still is) a dynamic person.
One day, some two years after his second hair transplant, his wife was in Los Angeles on a family trip. She stopped by my office to see me. She told me how adamant she was against her husband having a hair transplant, and how they fought about it up until he had the first procedure. I remember her saying something to the effect of, “I told him that I loved him with or without hair and that having a hair transplant was foolish. I really did not think that he needed it and he was handsome with or without hair. Now I am here to tell you what I never told him, that I was wrong about my stance against the surgery. He changed after his hair was restored, and the man I married, the man I fell in love with, returned. I just want to thank you for what you did for us.”
Hair loss impacts our psyche in many ways. Over the years I have done transplants on thousands of men, and some of these men had successful careers after their transplant. Many of these men are household names (CEOs, celebrities, heads of state) and some of them have even given me credit for launching or resurrecting their careers. While I have been honored by that, I am certain that what happened to these men is that due to their self-confidence significantly improving, their ability to tackle their careers was unhampered by the energy they used to spend focusing on their hair loss.
So is this the case with Wayne Rooney? It sure sounds like it.
I will ask the question again. I am a NW3. I had a hair transplant of 3650 grafts, about 8500 hairs into an area about 50cm2 in the frontal area. This was a FUE procedure. I am having small bumps, nodules, pimples? in the DONOR, NOT recipient area. I am exactly 7 weeks post op. What are these bumps and what caused them? thanks
When FUE transection occurs, remnants of hair are left in the donor scalp and they become a foreign body causing pimples and abscesses. You should see the doctor who did this and get his expertise in treating it. If you do not get the infections under control, they may just get worse and worse.
Dear Dr: can you help me estimate the number of grafts and hairs I receive based on the following photos? feel free to download and use them.
The doctor said, in a very random manner, he did 2900 grafts. Then plus post-op meds, this number exactly matches what I have paid before the surgery and we do not owe each other a penny. I won’t argue about it if there’s only a little discrepancy.
Thanks for sending the photos and allowing me to post them. I’ve chosen one photo to post that will give readers an idea of what you had done. Click to enlarge:
I have actually counted the grafts on patients that have doubts like you expressed in your question. If peace of mind is what you want, then a visit to a doctor who is willing to count the grafts is probably a good idea. On a few of the patients where I counted the grafts, wide discrepancies have been found, confirming their suspicions.
But counting the grafts in the photographs or counting them after the third day of the surgery will not get you what you want. You should have written to me right after the surgery and then I could’ve given you an accurate count within 1% of what you got.
