Immediate Growth of Transplanted Hair After Surgery
Q:
I had a hair transplant surgery over two months ago. Is it normal that I did not shed the transplanted hair (feels like beard stubs) but got thinning around the area. I saw on Rogaine insert that the use of Rogaine causes the miniaturized hair to fall off a month after use.
Thanks
A:
It might be normal not to lose all or some of the transplanted hair shafts after hair transplant. In fact, this condition could be seen in 10% of the patients after hair restoration surgery. If you have not lost the implanted hairs after a month from your hair transplantation, it is likely that you can keep them and they will continue to grow.
Rogaine may cause some hair shedding when people start to use it for the first time. The hair shedding is mostly due to the increase of the hair follicle turn over. If you only experience the loss of miniaturized hairs (fine hairs), you might also be experiencing “shock loss”. Shock loss is a phenomenon in which the patient experiences an acceleration in shedding of miniaturized hair after any stressor such as stress of hair transplant surgery.
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July 22nd, 2009 at 7:28 pm
I also had a transplant (FUE) over 2300 grafts 6 weeks ago all in my front and hairline and I still have over 90% of all my transplanted hair and was also wondering the same question as to if this is normal since everywhere I read that all transplanted hair will completely fall out between 1 to 2 months. I hope that I am part of that 10% you spoke of above
July 22nd, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Let’s hope so.
Good luck,