27 years old....Just got 2,220 Graft FUE Hair Transplant

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I have been struggling with hair loss for the past 5-7 years. While I have had some success using Rogaine and Propecia, both solutions have never made a big impact on my receding hairline. Here is what my hair my hair looks like now:



After spending a great deal of time researching all of the different options, I finally made the decision to go with a hair transplant. I live in southern California, so I knew that LA would be the best place to find the right surgeon. After reading tons of reviews and checking out all of the top hair docs around, I settled on Dr. Rawnsley. His before & after gallery was really impressive and most importantly, the results he gets look really natural. The last thing I wanted to was to get work done that stuck out like a sore thumb.



I went in for a consultation and was blown away by his beautiful office. All of his staff were incredibly helpful and a lot of fun to chat with. Dr. Rawnsley spent a bunch of time with me answering questions and walking my through the positives and negative of Strip surgrery vs FUE. It basically boils down to cost. FUE is really the best option for most people, but it costs about 2x as much. I took some time to think about it and decided it was worth the investment.

I had my surgery at the UCLA med center, where he was another great office and I am very happy to say that it all went very smoothly. I spent about an hour getting prepped and getting my new hair line drawn on my head and then took a valume and one antibiotic, and then the nurses started numbing me up. Rawnsley uses a really cool machine for FUE that basically extracts each graft ranging from 1-4 hairs and then the nurses separate them out. The Dr. then made all the insitions for the grafts to go in and then started placing them, making sure to angle them approapriately so that the hairs would flow in the natural direction. I can honestly say, I just slept and chatted with the nurses for about 6 hours and then I was done! There was only a very small amount of pain when I was getting numbed up and after that, it was all downhill.

Here are a few pics the day after the surgery:



I made sure to sleep in my recliner the first few nights as advised and took a couple vicodin so I passed right out each night. Dr. Rawnsley’s office gave me a great little kit to take care of the new grafts and donor area as well as some specialty shampoo and conditioner which helps in the healing process. The Dr. personally called me the next day to check in and his staff called and followed up again day 3. I headed back to their office on day 7 for a post-op evaluation and as I had expected everything had taken quite well.

I am now about 5 weeks post surgery now and very excited for the future. As I had been advised, most of the hairs that were implanted have fallen out, which is normal I'm told, but about 20%-30% of them have hung in there making my hair look a bit fuller than before. I guess in about 4-6 months the hairs that fell out will start to grown in really fine and then over 8-12 months they will all start thickening up, giving me a new/fuller head of hair.

All of the new hairs are still dormant, but I cannot wait for them to start growing.

Here are a few pics of me at week 4 post-op:


I am definitely very happy that I got the procedure done! It was much easier than I had thought and wasn't really painful at all. Worst thing was probably the itching from days 4-7 or so, when I really wanted to scratch all the implanted grafts, but new it would be horribly counterintuitive. Dr. Rawnsley and his whole crew were really incredibly. While I still have a long ways to go before the results show up, I can definitely say that I recommend working with him based upon what I have experienced so far.

I will update every few months with more pictures. Thanks for reading!