Big Mistake!

[HairTransplantOops]

Jon17,

As it heals further, I have heard good things about fraxel, dermarolling/stamping to minimize the appearance and promote healing. May make future plans a little easier in regards to concealing it.

HTO

[HairTransplantOops]

Here is some hope possibly in next 5 to 10 years. For us with strip scars that dont want to scar up the donor further with fue scarring. It is in clinical trials but seems very promising if accepted. Check it out, looks like a game changer but it may make us wish we waited longer to transplant in the first place

http://www.drcarloswesley.com/scarless-surgery/

Keep that head up, a better way of concealing is on its way.

Regards,

HTO

[brocktherock]

You can get scar reductions, fue or smp. Go to spex's hair loss website and look at the horrible bosley scars he had from the dark ages. If he can get those fixed than you can too just don't panic you have options. Just get on fin and minox if you haven't already and try to avoid future loss. There will be better treatments in the coming years so you won't be like the martyrs of the 90's and early 2000's

[Follicle17]

Here is some hope possibly in next 5 to 10 years. For us with strip scars that dont want to scar up the donor further with fue scarring. It is in clinical trials but seems very promising if accepted. Check it out, looks like a game changer but it may make us wish we waited longer to transplant in the first place

http://www.drcarloswesley.com/scarless-surgery/

Keep that head up, a better way of concealing is on its way.

Regards,

HTO

That seems like a definite game changer no doubt about it gives me some hope! This whole thing has been very hard on me as you can see. I've really never felt worse about something in my life and totally regret this whole thing. My minor recession bothered me for years always wearing hats and not going out or socializing. As a result I left school numerous times because of my insecurity and lack of confidence. I finally decided to address the issue so I can feel better about myself and get on the right track but now a month in and I am worse off than I was before. Money is tight and now I'll end up spending more cash on repairs down the road than the actual initial procedure. I used all my savings on this so I would have to save up again for awhile before anything can be done while keeping long hair to cover the scar.

[jamesst11]

My scar looked EXACTLY like yours at the stage you are in. Out of curiousity, I took a pic of a portion of the scar this morning and was shocked to see that it doesn't look too bad at all. It just looks like a line, a little more white than the surrounding tissue. I even see some hairs growing through it. As soon as I learn how to put pics from this damn new phone on my computer, I will upload some. I would shave my head in a second if the scar is all I had to deal with. I wouldn't even care telling people I had an HT... The main issue I have are the damn transplants. I don't think they will blend in with the rest of my head, unless I maybe went a 0 guard. This sure does suck man.... but, if we can deal with something like this, we can deal with anything. Like most of us, I have been through A LOT of crazy shit in my life... this is BY FAR the hardest thing I have ever dealt with.

[JoeTillman]

Jon17,

I want you to slow down. I fully understand your anxiety as I was the same age as you when I was first cut. I can say however, with experience, that you need to give this time. You are only a month out and you are looking for answers to questions you can't ask yet. What I mean is, your donor scar hasn't healed. It takes months for it to heal and settle down so at this point you have no idea if you will even need to take action at all. I understand why you're coming up with solutions, you feel horrible, you think you made a big mistake, but you're also working yourself up unnecessarily. I think you should document your donor scar, document the placement of grafts and make notes every week. At the end of nine months you can pretty much count your scar as healed and then go from there. Stay in touch with your clinic, let me know now how you feel about the switch they pulled on you and let them know your concerns.

I want you to understand that you have a great resource here for support. It personally pains me to see such a young man as yourself going through this experience but I and others here will give you support however we can. Just please be patient and don't work yourself up too much. It does you no good and will only cause unnecessary stress in your life. No one can see the donor scar so no matter how much you feel it no one else knows it's there.

Ultimately, it will take a couple more months for the redness to disappear. It will turn pink sooner rather than later, some hair above and/or below it may thin out due to temporary shock loss, but it usually comes back and if it does occur it won't be so bad that others notice. It will get itchy, you may have random spotting (blood), but it is all fairly normal for donor strip healing.