Follow My Major Repair

[topccat29]

Thank you €¦ €¦ €¦ €¦ quite a difference from the before pictures. Not easy when one needs to harvest hair from their face and chest because the donor area has been decimated. I would say it was quite an incredible repair.

 

[FUE GUY]

Wow what a difference.

 

[Bigmac]

Looks really good and the beard area has healed well. What does the beard look like if you have a few days growth?

 

[topccat29]

Thank you FUEGUY & BM
I will try to find a picture pre op that shows the beard area and then take a comparison picture with a few days growth and post them side by side.

 

[Levrais]

You've come a long way!

 

[topccat29]

Thank you Levrais.
No one chooses to become a repair patient but one bad decision and I found myself in a desperate position to fix something that started 30 years ago. I worked 78 hour weeks for the longest time when I was younger. Always trying my best to do what was necessary to move forward, only to get sucked into the hole a little deeper over time. Tough lesson to learn but there are worse fates and I did learn much about people, working hard, and not giving up which is the positive. It is something that completely changes your life.
Of course I am very thankful to Dr. Bisanga he is a good person. Anyone who has ever met him knows that he is the real deal.

 

[Levrais]

It gets better with every update. By the way, I'm wondering what NW level you would be had you never had any work done.

 

[topccat29]

Levrais my guess judging from family patterns would be NW5 or there about.

 

[topccat29]

Here are the side by side beard donor hair pictures. The best I could do is find a before picture 1 week after the 1st procedure so you will have to imagine about 200 more grafts as they have already been removed. The after picture is today with about 2 days of growth. Gives you an idea where the hair came from as it is now missing which works very well for me.

The after picture represents approximately 1000 fue grafts from the chin area over 4 procedures.

 

[James]

Congrats Topcat, it looks great.

Looking forward to seeing more photos

 

[Bigmac]

The beard area looks good, it has certainly healed very well.
Thanks for adding the pictures.
Bm.

 

[topccat29]

Thank you for the comments.

If you think about the condensed area where all these extractions were made the healing was pretty incredible in my opinion. This is also why I have such a strong opinion on the benefits of a small hand punch wielded by the actual hand of a skilled surgeon who has an extensive body of work that spans years. It €™s just a personal preference and he is a good person too.

 

[topccat29]

Scarring of my chest was also not an option. Small procedures using a small hand punch wielded by the actual surgeon €™s hand with a body of work that spans years once again applies. I like this approach others differ.


Pictures
1 week
4 weeks
5 years later

 

[Paleocapa89]

Holy sh*t Topcat, you are in great shape. I cant really notice any hypopigmented scar on you. Have you tried tanning? Does tanning makes the spots appear?

 

[topccat29]

Paleocapa in my case there is no visible hypopigmentation even when tanned and I spend as much time in the sun as possible loading the vitamin D stores for winter. I'm a huge proponent of the Sun as being very healing for the body/mind.

Thank you for the compliment. I find that as I have gotten older and understand the concept that those that are selling the most crap while also sounding the most convincing are in fact selling crap. That the real information can often be found by those that have not chosen the path that is most profitable but the path they believe is the most honest. Once one understands that basic concept they can then start making progress towards gathering information that will actually benefit them and it applies to everything.

Yes I thought I knew something about nutrition going back 40 years ago but it was only when I got away from information that was based on marketing that I really started to make progress and the same can be said about hair transplantation.

Many have it worse off. Disease treatment is often based on marketing too but for most it's too big a concept to understand. It doesn't seem possible that someone would sell them a medical treatment simply because what they are selling is more profitable then something that might actually work better. It happens everyday and it's a good lesson to learn through ht before one experiences even greater harm.

I read the forums daily for 10+ years before I started the repair. Most guys that have made bad choices don't understand they are victims of marketing fraud and one only needs to read the FTC definition to understand that............disclaimers for illegal activity mean zilch. Unfortunately some fall into the trap.

 

[Crudance2006]

Great improvement by BHR.

 

[topccat29]

Thank you for the comment Crudance. It can be very risky for a clinic to take on a repair patient in my opinion. Many patients simply do not have realistic expectations on what can be accomplished so I am very thankful that BHR took the risk.

I am also very happy with what was accomplished and even if no hair grew I would have had to still give credit to Dr. Bisanga for giving it a try. He is a good person and that €™s enough for me..............having good intentions.


Hair transplantation in general is very limited in what it can accomplish and even more so for repair patients. This is why there is very, very little room for error when planning a procedure.


It's all about the numbers and if the best a procedure like fue can achieve on someone with extensive baldness is 25% of the original coverage well then that can be acceptable for most and I agree. But should you waste 50% of that on one bad procedure for lack of proper research you could very well be dealing with achieving only 12% coverage and that is why it matters that you get it right the first time.

When the numbers are explained in these terms it does make it a little easier to understand.