Electrolysis Removal After Bad Hair Transplant

[loui]

Hey Loui, just wanted to ask after almost one year now, how did the electrolysis treatment hold? Did many hairs come back needing retreatment? What about any late scarring/pitting?

I'm about to undergo the same treatment, feeling a bit anxious

Most grafts died.

The area treated is 1000% better but not perfect.

I did about 10 treatments.

 

[loui]

 

[Bigmac]

Your hair looks great Loui.

 

[Paul_]

Looks amazing, very happy for you!
One more question please, what electrolysis machine did your electrologist use? Any tips for usage that I can transmit to mine?

thanks again

 

[loui]

Looks amazing, very happy for you!
One more question please, what electrolysis machine did your electrologist use? Any tips for usage that I can transmit to mine?

thanks again

Electrolysis with the blend method

 

[Kevboy]

Superb!

 

[loui]

This is more than 1 year apart, soon 1,5 years so its fair to say it did work out with this method. Sorry I did not update this thread, but if it was not working it should have come back within 6 months if it had gone into telogen phase so called "resting" phase.

 

[Bigmac]

Looking good.

 

[Guest!]

Just wanted to thank you for this thread.

I started electoylsis myself last week (was lucky enough to find someone who has removed a lot of transplanted hair before). We removed around 60-80 badly angled grafts from my temples and i believe there is already an improvement. Im no longer smearing wax in my hairline trying to make it normal.

I would have never thought to try this if not for this thread - while i really hate losing the grafts its much better than risking another surgery and wasting thousands of dollars. Hopefully more people will see it

 

[ChippingIn]

Hello Loui,

I would genuinely like to ask you, when it comes to the topic of removing grafts of multiple hairs through electrolysis, or "multis", is it possible to remove only one or two hairs in the group and leave a single one standing? I am genuinely curious about this, and nobody seems to have an answer for me. Thank you for the thread.

 

[loui]

Hello Loui,

I would genuinely like to ask you, when it comes to the topic of removing grafts of multiple hairs through electrolysis, or "multis", is it possible to remove only one or two hairs in the group and leave a single one standing? I am genuinely curious about this, and nobody seems to have an answer for me. Thank you for the thread.

I believe no but I am not a 100 percent sure. The woman who did my treatments said that the hairs get softer after each treatment, the ones who do not die. Not sure if that is true or not.

But I dont think she meant that she converts 4s to singles.

 

[ChippingIn]

I believe no but I am not a 100 percent sure. The woman who did my treatments said that the hairs get softer after each treatment, the ones who do not die. Not sure if that is true or not.

But I dont think she meant that she converts 4s to singles.

I have a couple more questions. I am thinking about doing what you did so your experience is invaluable. Started thinking I am going crazy but you proved that it is just going an extra mile to get the result we should have gotten to begin with if not for cheap clinics. So essentially these multi-follicular hairs are several seperate follicles quite close to each other merged together by veins. When she hit those multi-follicular units with the needle, did she pull out all 3 at once, or did she have to hit them one by one? In theory, if there are 3 of them there, and she only burns one or two, the third one should remain in tact, no? Or is the radius of the heat so large that it burns all three? Did something similar happen to any of your multi-follicular ones, if only by accident? Thanks for the time and effort man - you handled it like a champ.

 

[loui]

I have a couple more questions. I am thinking about doing what you did so your experience is invaluable. Started thinking I am going crazy but you proved that it is just going an extra mile to get the result we should have gotten to begin with if not for cheap clinics. So essentially these multi-follicular hairs are several seperate follicles quite close to each other merged together by veins. When she hit those multi-follicular units with the needle, did she pull out all 3 at once, or did she have to hit them one by one? In theory, if there are 3 of them there, and she only burns one or two, the third one should remain in tact, no? Or is the radius of the heat so large that it burns all three? Did something similar happen to any of your multi-follicular ones, if only by accident? Thanks for the time and effort man - you handled it like a champ.

Basically she enters into 1 of these 3 haired grafts and hope that she hit the root, thats why its a hassle and it will take lots of treatments to get them removed because sometimes she will probably not hit the graft correctly and it will sometimes be shocked and act as shockloss and later come back. Sometimes it does not even get shocked and it appears a month or so later.

After she hit it with electrolysis she plucks the graft treated.

 

[ChippingIn]

Basically she enters into 1 of these 3 haired grafts and hope that she hit the root, thats why its a hassle and it will take lots of treatments to get them removed because sometimes she will probably not hit the graft correctly and it will sometimes be shocked and act as shockloss and later come back. Sometimes it does not even get shocked and it appears a month or so later.

After she hit it with electrolysis she plucks the graft treated.

Thanks for the knowledge. In the second very succesful transplant you have gotten, the nurses carefully split the grafts into singles under a microscope. That is only possible because they do not come out of a single root, but are rather two or more separate follicles which share the same veins to feed from. I have a similar problem to you, although if it would not be possible to target them follicle by follicle, I will only end up removing threes and higher. Unfortunately I met an ignorant doctor who was not even aware of the practice of follicle separation and neither was I at the time.

 

[Paul_]

Just wanted to thank you for this thread.

I started electoylsis myself last week (was lucky enough to find someone who has removed a lot of transplanted hair before). We removed around 60-80 badly angled grafts from my temples and i believe there is already an improvement. Im no longer smearing wax in my hairline trying to make it normal.

I would have never thought to try this if not for this thread - while i really hate losing the grafts its much better than risking another surgery and wasting thousands of dollars. Hopefully more people will see it

Props to you, how is it going so far? No scarring or side effects I hope.
Any tips / technique for transplanted hairs they are using?

I'm asking as I will start it as well in September
(my plan is to use electrolysis for a small denser part of the frontal hairline, and FUE for the more spaced out multis on the sides to restore my donor, will document it as well)

 

[Guest!]

No scarring, no redness, immediate results. I can comb my hair forwards and sideways again for the first time in 4 years.

I've done two sessions now and we've removed around 160-180 or so hairs just from the temples (about 80-90 each side). That is where my hair is the most obviously mis-angled. I've avoided the centre for now as the grafts there are the least bothersome.

We did the thermolysis method (she said the method didnt matter) and she is a registered nurse who has been doing this exclusively for over 25 years. I was told it might hurt so at first only wanted to do a small test session, but there was no pain or scarring or even redness we just went for it (although if you are worried you might want to buy some numbing cream beforehand).

She noticed my hairline was transplanted in a straight line (she called it "dramatic" lol) so also added a few irregularities. I thought I was going to have to map out a design and guide her but as she has removed a lot of transplanted hair before she knew to target the doubles/ thicker hairs, and could easily tell which hairs were mis-angled and targeted those as well. I really lucked out with her.

If i had an unlimited donor i'd simply kill Konior's hairline completely and transplant over that region again with a proper surgeon. No regrets.

 

[Paul_]

No scarring, no redness, immediate results. I can comb my hair forwards and sideways again for the first time in 4 years.

I've done two sessions now and we've removed around 160-180 or so hairs just from the temples (about 80-90 each side). That is where my hair is the most obviously mis-angled. I've avoided the centre for now as the grafts there are the least bothersome.

We did the thermolysis method (she said the method didnt matter) and she is a registered nurse who has been doing this exclusively for over 25 years. I was told it might hurt so at first only wanted to do a small test session, but there was no pain or scarring or even redness we just went for it (although if you are worried you might want to buy some numbing cream beforehand).

She noticed my hairline was transplanted in a straight line (she called it "dramatic" lol) so also added a few irregularities. I thought I was going to have to map out a design and guide her but as she has removed a lot of transplanted hair before she knew to target the doubles/ thicker hairs, and could easily tell which hairs were mis-angled and targeted those as well. I really lucked out with her.

If i had an unlimited donor i'd simply kill Konior's hairline completely and transplant over that region again with a proper surgeon. No regrets.

That's great very happy for you
Must be a relief after all that time

 

[Jay O Donald]

What is the best way to not only remove grafts but fix the pitting as well?

 

[Guest!]

wish I knew, but given electroylsis is very cheap you could try to remove a few of the hairs and check if it makes an improvement on the pitting as well?

 

[Paul_]

What is the best way to not only remove grafts but fix the pitting as well?

Hi Jay, what I heard during several of my consultations (prepping for my repair surgery), is that punching out surgically those grafts removes or diminishes the pitted look as well, as the skin would newly heal to fill that gap