3 Months After My Hair Transplant, A Bald Spot Appeared Between the Crown and Donor Area
Hello
I find your website informative
Here is my scenario. My surgeon is on holidays for two weeks. I had a scar revision and small graft session into the crown 600 grafts.
About three months after the procedure………I developed a small bald spot (size of a penny) about an inch below the crown diagonally betwween where the grafts were put and a few inches above the actual donor scar line. It was native high density hair.
The area in question is still very numb and tender. I all of a sudden developed a thick scab…………it came off with a bunch of hair and it is very pink skin below and a bit rough in texture and completely devoid in hair.
I have put emu oil on it for the time being……..
1. What do you think it is
2. Will the hair grow backThanks…….take care
I would have to see your hair loss patch to give you a better opinion on what it is. Can you send me a picture to the address on the contact page? Please reference this blog post when sending. Thanks.
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3 Months After My FUE Procedure, I Still Have Hairs That Didn’t Shed but Refuse to Grow
Dr. Rassman,
I am almost 3 months post surgery (FUE) having had about 2300 grafts with a skilled and well respected surgeon.
I have a number of transplanted hairs in the front of my scalp that have not shed nor have they grown. I scrub them, and nothing. They remain. I have a few rogue hairs that did start to grow (very few, maybe 5-10) without having fallen out post op, but moreso, a couple hundred perhaps, that are just like beard stubble, and wont fall out nor are they growing.
Can you shed (no pun intended) some light as to what may be going on, what the effect of this may be, either negative or positive, and contribute any other thoughts to this as I am not panicking, but as the weeks roll by, I am growing more and more concerned.
As an aside, at nearly 11 weeks, there is no other new growth yet beginning, which I understand is not abnormal.
Thanks again
This can be all normal for the course. Hairs that remain are leftover from the old grafts and they can be identified by a slight pull with tweezers. They will come out or you can just leave them alone. I see this on occasion after a hair transplant.
With regard to the growth, wait it out. Don’t panic — if a good surgeon did it, then the results will be apparent starting at 5-6 months.
3 months after microneedling, finasteride and Vitamin D (photos)
It is impossible to know which of the three modalities produced such a nice reversal which seemed to have happened almost immediately after it started to get this hair length. It appears that the miniaturization reversed.
3 months after Hair Transplant, 30% percent is growing
I had my HT in September, I never took minoxidil because even though I heard it will make my hair grow back faster I do not have the necessary time to use it twice a day, so I only use finasteride. Today marks the 3 month since the HT, and it just seems like my hair doesn’t want to fall off now,I never thought that I could be mad that my hair doesn’t want to fall off but here I am. Some people shed in the first month and by the third they already start noticing minor gains, while mine hasn’t even fully fallen yet.
Immediate growth occur in some of the hairs in a hair transplant 95% of people lose the hair as it goes through a rest phase after the transplant and then grows out 2-4 months later. In about 5% of my patients, there is instant growth and the hair never goes through the rest phase.
2021-04-07 02:21:262020-12-04 11:23:013 months after Hair Transplant, 30% percent is growing
3 months after FUE (Photo)
2020-09-14 03:42:082020-09-01 12:34:343 months after FUE (Photo)
3 Days After Hair Transplant, My Eye Is Swollen and Bruised!
Hi Dr. Rassman,
I had my hair transplant 3 days ago and I was told that i’m a bleeder. so my head was wrapped for 2 days and after washing off the wrap i looked swollen but after the 3rd day after waking up my eye is swollen and bruised is this normal?
The bruising is rare, but it is normal to have swelling after a hair transplant procedure if your surgeon did not use large dose steroids to prevent it. It should be found in the pre-operative or post-operative handout you hopefully received — and more importantly in your operative consent form. Most of the swelling should be gone by the 5th day.
Part of me is honored that you would be turning to me for hair transplant aftercare advice, but the other part of me is shocked that you would not be asking this question to the doctor you trusted to performed your surgery. You really should have an open line of communication with your surgeon. I really can’t stress enough how a good doctor/patient relationship is so very important.
3.5 Months on finasteride, minoxidil & Dermroller
29 Year Old Female with Hair Loss (Photo)
A full work-up with blood tests and an extensive examination is needed ( https://baldingblog.com/common-blood-tests-for-female-hair-loss/ ). Do you have a family history of hair loss on the female side of your family? If you do, then it is possible that this is purely genetic, and if the doctor can’t identify a cause, then we offer scalp micropigmentation for women. See here: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/smp-for-women/
2020-01-21 04:00:192019-11-21 10:49:0529 Year Old Female with Hair Loss (Photo)
Finasteride caused me an increased sex drive
My first question is a bit strange. I’ve been on Propecia for about 3 weeks now. And I believe I am have a side effect, though it’s not what I was expecting. I don’t even know how this is possible, but my Libido has become aggressively, distractedly active, to the point it’s almost detrimental. I can’t even focus on basic tasks since starting it because I’m horny like I’m 13 again (I’m 30). I don’t know if this is possible or if anyone else has ever heard of this happening. My semen has also become very watery.
One of my son’s went on Propecia (Finasteride) and found an increased sex drive as you reported. The water semen is common. I think that this side effect (increased sex drive) is more common than most people think; however, we focus more on those individuals who have a reduced sex drive and this is the complaint we hear about.