Monday, November 10, 2014

Tips for pate Amelioration: (AKA Hair Transplant)


If you are interested after you read this very honest review please contact us:

NewMan@xpectworld.net
http://www.HairTransplantUKCheap.co.uk


June 2015 - Update :

It is now 6 months post surgery...., as Freddie sang "Was it all worth it?"



Yes, it was.  The superman curl is just for this photo, jocose (and because I can now...) too...



October 2014 - Back story:

Sooo...I have been losing my hair since I was a manly 12 year old...
I've decided to sort it out finally and I'm going for a hair transplant on the 21st November 2014.

The neg'ers will say that if you put good at the front the top and back will go in time:

A la Stem Cell hairless mouse...


And maybe when I'm 70...but I'm still a young bloke!

What amazes me is the laughter and disbelief in ladies I tell this to, I always try to put them in the frame of mind by saying that if their hair went they would be crying all the way to the docs office.  It's so true!

I do now sympathise with my brother, who, at 18 got a bald spot on the back of his head.

I do feel differently about it and I calculated that HAD I been a smoker/drinker even a single bottle if wine a week would pay for this in 5 years....so I don't feel bad about the cost either.

I hate to shave my hair off, my ego won't let me think I look ugly (obviously) but my Super Ego does,
it feels like a cop-out and definitely unattractive, lazy even (from a grooming perspective).

Yes I liked having longer hair and my newly renewed passport photo shrinks painfully as it is popped in with my 10 year old passport.  The virile photo seemingly mockingly laughing at them from his pretty solid mane....dam....I should have kept up with the dutasteride these last 3 years!

What am I doing to keep what I have once I get the front filled back in?

I am not a doctor!! so consult yours first...

But here is the prescription and UK purchase links:
This is three proven ways to stop your hair falling out or make it thicker.

I have been on and off these for years and I think that is why mine is still OK at my age.

I have been ‘off’ the pills for 3 years while in USA and mine started to go again!


Dutagen (Dutasteride) - 0.5mg (10 Capsules)     X       20 = £90.00
(take one every other day)
bulk buying is cheaper:

I am mixing with:

Saw Palmetto (natural herb) – cheap on ebay 55 pounds ‘per year’
(take 3 every other day – the days you dont take dutasteride)


You can try the above as directed (one a day) or mix them like I am trying right now.

Optional:
Minoxidil (4 pounds a month=cheap on ebay, it’s like baby-gro for your hair – makes it thicker)
(twice a day drops, i have used it once a day but it doesn't stop it falling out, just thicker hairs.  Might help your new hair come through faster, post transplant!)


HTH!


Hair Transplant

Before photos:

Not really bad from the back and this is where the follicle donor area will be
they say 3000 to 3500 grafts (FUE method is the latest technique).



Cough Cough!



Getting sparse...





21st November 2014 - 'Full Coverage' Hair Transplant with PRP

Single day operation

10:00 am Taxi to hospital
10:30 am consult w doc
11:00 am start anesthetic
11:30 am Donor hair extraction
3:00 pm ready for destination
Back seems painless again
Front anesthetic 3:10 pm (not nice but ok)
3:45 pm holes punched (in my case for 'full coverage')
5:00 pm end holes (whew)
Food! Break! (20 mins)
5:30 follicles In holes process
Intravenous painkiller, antibiotic and analgesic
Fell asleep...finally.
Woken and told 2 more hours at 8:00 pm
9:45 pm Finished.


This seems like an ordeal and as this is a no BS review - it is.
But it is just one day and you then have hair for life!
It's like anything worthwhile, a short term sacrifice for a long term gain.


Notes:

This is a long process and a lot of it horizontal.
You certainly have room and time to play on a phone or watch a movie on Phone
and sometimes you are at the right angle to read a book.
But only really at the end when they do the back.
You can listen to music at any time.


Concerns:

I certainly felt that because it is cheaper than the UK that something would be missing.
Less than the promised extractions or such like.
But instead they took ages extracting loads of follicles.

I was bored of it in the end.

They on the other hand remained professional and committed to the quality.
Your case maybe different, but 3500 follicles was the estimate, and 4000 was the final total.

I was expecting them to fill in between my sparse bits to thicken those areas.
In fact I was expecting them to only fill in the front which was the main part that was fully receeded(bald).

I expected to have to request a fill in on the crown.
They had a plan for my type of hair loss.

The tag line here seems to be 'full coverage', so similar to a plough,
they literally mowed over the hair that was likely to fall out over the next few decades anyway.
(My hair has been going for some 25+ years now)

Just don't drink much water after breakfast!
It's a pain to have to move and you get the small drip mid-way through anyway.


This will now be in reverse order so that you see the difference from the above 'Before' photos.
I am doing this mainly because the operation photos and videos are quite gruesome to some.
I will update it each month.

5th December 2014 Media (10 days post-op)




20th November 2014 Media

In-Flight food.




21st November 2014 Media


Breakfast at the hotel.



Ready (head shaved) post consultation with the physician.



The equipment.




 The hairline is drawn and you are fully consulted about it.



Immediately post-op.





This is given by the hospital and is a life safer the first few nights.



Would you trust this man you just met in the elevator?
The hat is given to cover things very gently post-op.




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