Paso,
No, don't freak out. Patients that have that type of chronic pain in the donor post-op for that long are in the very minority. It is extremely rare for that to go on as long as you mentioned.
There are an extreme amount of blood vessels and nerves that run throughout the scalp so the post-op numbness is normal. Although many nerves end up getting severed, especially in a strip procedure, nerve endings do repair themselves over time. That varies between patients but normally all feeling should resume in one year or less.
Most of us who have undergone HT procedures need little to no pain medications post-op once the anesthesia from the procedure wears off. And it's usually only one or several days when the pain meds are needed.
Again that's the norm so you can now take a deep breath!
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Question about pain after hairtransplant. Is the pain permanent?
I've been doing some reasearch on hairtransplants. But I've read cases where people have pain near the donor area, or numbness of some sort. I've heard cases where there is pain in donor area 4 years after hair transplant. Is this permanent pain and numbness? Does it go away over time?
Do I have to take "pain killers" for life, or does the pain just go away overtime?
I'm in a great need for some answers please, and thank you.
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