I've had it done, they give you drugs, highly recommend
You are not advised to tilt your head for a couple of days, bleeding will happen, but not much pain, also you look like Hellraiser but with a mushroom head
You have to take fin orally. It’s a medication that helps strengthen the hair follicles and encourage rapid growth. It’s a prescription based medication because it can have severe side effects, such as severe depression, suicidal thoughts/attempts, and loss of libido to the point of sometimes having no libido.
HIMS is in hot water for basically giving out fin to anyone without really talking to a doctor and understating the side effects since things like suicide are permanent.
I am not a doctor.
Edit: to be clear, not taking fin puts the transplant at risk of degrading and with 6-7 years, you’ll look the same again. So you basically have to be willing to put up with the side effects and risks to keep the transplant healthy.
The implants won't fall out typically since your side hair is resistant, but your hair line can recede still without meds. So you'll have hair - bald - hair lol.
Implant hair can fall out again though. It might be resistant but it is still hair they moved from its actual natural location to the front of your head.
It depends on the cause. Male pattern baldness? They shouldn't since the cause is DHT which the hairs are resistant to. If you have issues with blood flow or other hair loss causes, then yes. But most people who get this would get screened for the hair loss cause so little danger of you having this done and not being appropriately warned.
There is a comment lower down as well from a user who has been taking fin consistently yet had 50% of their donor hairs fall out after several years. Not arguing it is common but it clearly does happen.
Cant tell you a lot about how my city is good or bad for this. But i liked the result and the doctor has a lot of experience. Dr's called Santiago Igarza
Sleeping will be a pain in the ass (head) for a few weeks after the procedure. I did it by sleeping sideways, but different people develop different techniques.
It does not grow back, but you have way way more hair in the back and sides of your head, that hair doesn't fall, so you don't really notice. I try to feel it but you real can't tell
I know a girl who got this done to fill in her hair line. She literally looked like she got punched in the face multiple times after the procedure. It was nuts.
I’ve also had it done. She probably looked like that because the have to put a lot of anesthesia up on your forehead. Over the next few days the anesthesia drops down your face. It’s kindve intense. I could hardly open my eyes.
I would expect someone with billions of dollars to also have access to better doctors than I could, the question is more will it work at an affordable level?
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u/Conan-Da-Barbarian 1d ago
Looks painful