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Dr. Bisangs - Beard FUE's won't heal

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royroy

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Had 805 beard Fue's taken on November 15th. I am having a really difficult time because the FUE extraction areas are not healing up well at all. What makes it worse is that they took a lot of the FUE's out of my cheek area . I had obviously hoped the extractions would be below the chin and sideburns and other areas that are not super noticeable in the event of healing issues. In any event I have no idea what to do other then see if Fraxel will work. Anyone else ever seen/heard of beard FUE healing issues. I did a lot of research before I went in for this and I am not aware of others having problems.
 

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royroy

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Also pic at six weeks. You can see the FUE holes are not filling in.
 
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Sparky

Sparky

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Well you have no healing pics, and your only at 1.5 months, they will heal.
 
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Sparky

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Have you had an unsatifactory response from BHR, that made you air this in a public forum at only 1.5 months post op?
 
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richfrog

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Am i understanding this right? you say the pic is the 6 weeks after fue??
SO why is the back of your head bleeding on to the pillow??
Also you say the Dr said nothing about where he was taking the FUE from just went ahead and did it, and you didnt notice during the procedure ??
 
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royroy

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No that picture was taken right after procedure. BHR is trying to be helpful, they are a good group of guys. I went there because of thier reputation. This just isn't healing, I dont think that is because of anything they did wrong. If I was them I would take bead FUE extractions from less conspicous areas but that is just my opinion. The point of my post is two fold. If anyone has taken 7 plus weeks to heal from beard FUE I would like to hear from you so I know what to do and what to expect going forward. 2) I want to document on the internet a beard FUE case at 7 weeks that is not healing well. Why? I studied and studied the internet on this topic for 6 months before I went in for this proceedure. I couldn't find any cases of people that experienced problems. I dont know if that is because no one ever had any problems or they just were not documented. I think the more info, good and bad, that we share with each other the better. I want guys who are evaluating beard fue right now to see all the possibilities and then make their own informed decisions.
 
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Sparky

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I assume that you waited a very long time after surgery to shave yeah?
 
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Sparky

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I had grafts fue'd out of my hairline and it took more than 7 weeks to heal, but now you wouldn't be able to find them, even under high magnification.
 
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royroy

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Sparky, Yeah 2 weeks or so per instructions. Shaving is still a real problem. If I wet shave the whole right side of my face gets very inflammed. I havent shaved since Tuesday and even right now it is irritated. Just a wierd thing, I dont think anyone knows what to make of it. I think BHR just kept thinking it would get better like all their other work but week after week it just doesnt really improve or improves very slightly. I will just have to work thru it. I am going to visit a Fraxel guy this week to see what he says. I have had a lot of luck with Fraxel on old HT scars so I am going to stay real optomistic.
 
Sparky

Sparky

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I still think that you won't have to go down the Fraxel route but we'll see.
 
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Turbo

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Hi royroy

I'm sure that it will help people to understand your predicament if you actually show a picture of the current situation of your cheek area?

I had 100 beard fues extracted in July as a test. They healed up within days (taken from below the chin) - so I am hopeful that this will be the case for my next larger extraction of beard fues in early Jan from BHR. I will add a pic after the op and one a week after to compare with your current situation?..
 
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royroy

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Turbo, My six week pic will not load for some reason. Most be damaged somehow. I will shave Sunday night and take what will basically be my 7 week pic and post. I agree with you, you really need to see it. You are typical of the research I did, healing up literally in a few days. That's what scares me so much to be at 7 weeks and have all these holes in my face, looks horrible. I will post tomorrow night and I would like to see your pics as well.

P.S. I'm glad to hear your extraction went so well. I think this is an amazing technology that can do great things for scar improval. I am not trying to shed a negative light on it, I just want to share my experiences since I couldn't find enough info out there when I researched.
 
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Turbo

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Hi
here is my pic following 100 fue. This area healed in about a week or so if I remember rightly. Is this area any better than say the cheek area?
 

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royroy

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That's definately the place to take them from. How many are you getting done in January? If you healed up good I wouldn't worry about it, you should do great. I seem to be some type of really abnormal case which is wierd because I have had 15 - 20 HT proceedures over 25 years and I have been a very good healer. Maybe I just have a sensitive face or something. If I was you I would just shave any area you would be uncormfortable having extractions from. Then you know they can't be taken from there or have a detailed discussion with the Doctor. I just made an assumption I wouldn't have extractions from the cheek because I had never seen that done before. If I had known that was a possibility I would have talked to the Dr. or better yet just shaved the facial area.
 
topccat29

topccat29

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Royroy, are you saying that none of the 805 extractions healed?
 
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royroy

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Topccat, No, let me post my newest pics Sunday night. I dont want to shave and take pics right now because I am trying to shave only once a week or so. A lot of the ones under the chin have healed fairly well. The right side of the face has healed some but there are still very prominent holes where each extraction "was". Let me put it this way you could go thru right now and visible see every extraction and they are still holes, not as deep as they were but they are all clear. Good news is that they are the same color as the surrounding skin so If I can just get them to fill in they should look good. I believe Fraxel could possibly do this. I know some Beard FUE guys actually do Fraxel the day after the procedure. I am sorry for starting this topic without current pictures. I didn't know my week 6 pic was not going to load when I first started this. You guys really need to see the pictures to get a feel for where I am at right now. I will say in my opinion from what have seen with others (possibly yourself as I have followed your case) that my healing at 7 weeks is maybe like others have been at 3 - 4 days. Thats just my opinion based on what I have looked at. Difference is I have less redness then someone at 3-4 days.
 
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royroy

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Ok I think I got this picture altered so it would load. This is at 6 weeks, cant see the cheek great because of the angle. I think you can see why I am so bummed out though. You can basically see every hole. I don't know what do you guys think, I think this is extremely abnormal and it just doesn't improve on a daily basis. It looks every bit as bad right now, 5 or 6 days after this pic.
 

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mars

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I had grafts punched out of my hairline around 200 took a few weeks for the skin to be smooth but a few months for redness to fade but even now 5 minths later its still pinkish when i come out of the shower..

You did get alot of grafts taken in one pass imo,most i have seen taken in one pass.

You will be grand stephens face looks mint and he had more taken,be it his was over a few sessions but it will be as good in time.
 
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royroy

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Hope you are right. Stephen I believe has had 1000 but in 3 sessions. I missed him when I was there but I hear his face looks great. They are doing a lot more per session now because results have been so good. To be fair I stated over and over that I wanted as many as they could safely do since I was coming from US. I meant as many as they could get without getting on the face but in fairness again I never said that because I didn't know it was an option. Doesn't matter anyhow, my point is not to get into a debate I am just interested in getting my face back to norm. With all that being said I did 805 FUES. Dr. U and others routinely do 1500 or so from what I understand from my "research". For whatever reason they took about 70% of the 805 out of the right side and only 30% or so from the left, so I agree the right side was really heavily harvested.
 
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mars

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You have alot of healing to go yet the extraction holes are still red so their still healing.

i dont like where the extractions were taken from either too many from the face area leading up to your cheek bone,sideburns neck and chin is as far as i would go personally..this is prob why you have this problem now,they would be less visable from sideburn neck and chin only.

End result will be good just this healing period will be harder.
 
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