Top Tips / Advice For Upcoming Surgery

[lb88]

Hi all, first thread.

I had been researching / contemplating for about six to nine months before finally deciding to pull the trigger a couple of months ago, and I have a surgery booked with Dr Cinik two weeks from now.

While I've read countless stories and tried to take note of as much as I could in terms of prep, I'm sure there are things that I've missed. So my question is - what's the best bit of advice you were given or wish you had been given prior to having surgery?

 

[todaystheday]

Good question, I have the same question! Anything in particular on aftercare that worked for people?

 

[el_duterino]

Don't eat: fish or fish oil supplements one week before, garlic, ginko biloba all these thin blood

Do eat: calcium supplements, leafy vegetables, drink milk the day before - helps coagulation

Take a long rope with you so you can tie your wrists to the bed while sleeping - upright for the first few days - and so avoid scratching the recipient during sleep after the hair transplant. Recipient area can get very itchy or feels weird for a week or 2 after the hair transplant.

Pack on food before the hair transplant to be able to stay in the hotel room for a full day right after the hair transplant if they have no room service

I restarted minoxidil a week after the hair transplant by using oral minoxidil 5mg a day for 2-3 months until I could switch back to topical, this helps with early growth and shock loss recovery etc..and of course use finasteride the whole time

 

[todaystheday]

Don't eat: fish or fish oil supplements one week before, garlic, ginko biloba all these thin blood

Do eat: calcium supplements, leafy vegetables, drink milk the day before - helps coagulation

Take a long rope with you so you can tie your wrists to the bed while sleeping - upright for the first few days - and so avoid scratching the recipient during sleep after the hair transplant. Recipient area can get very itchy or feels weird for a week or 2 after the hair transplant.

Pack on food before the hair transplant to be able to stay in the hotel room for a full day right after the hair transplant if they have no room service

I restarted minoxidil a week after the hair transplant by using oral minoxidil 5mg a day for 2-3 months until I could switch back to topical, this helps with early growth and shock loss recovery etc..and of course use finasteride the whole time

Fantastic, thank you very much. Not planning on taking finasteride at all though. Is that a bad idea?!

 

[el_duterino]

Its a bad idea. Once you do the hair transplant you need to maintain the native hair behind

 

[lb88]

Don't eat: fish or fish oil supplements one week before, garlic, ginko biloba all these thin blood

Do eat: calcium supplements, leafy vegetables, drink milk the day before - helps coagulation

Take a long rope with you so you can tie your wrists to the bed while sleeping - upright for the first few days - and so avoid scratching the recipient during sleep after the hair transplant. Recipient area can get very itchy or feels weird for a week or 2 after the hair transplant.

Pack on food before the hair transplant to be able to stay in the hotel room for a full day right after the hair transplant if they have no room service

I restarted minoxidil a week after the hair transplant by using oral minoxidil 5mg a day for 2-3 months until I could switch back to topical, this helps with early growth and shock loss recovery etc..and of course use finasteride the whole time

Thanks for the input. I've not actually started on finasteride yet, and as such have been advised to wait for one month after the surgery to begin. Which I presume is because of the initial shedding which can occur and there would be concern that this could impact the implanted follicles taking.

I have also been advised to wait a month before starting on monoxidil (again having not taken / used previously) - would you agree with this?

 

[el_duterino]

I never experienced shedding when I started finasteride or minoxidil.

Both will make hair stronger and help recovery and prevent permanent shock loss, which is a real risk.

But you would need to stop minoxidil two weeks before surgery though, as it increases bleeding.

If you never used those, I would use both for a full year then re-evaluate and do the surgery. You may be a great responder and end up needing less grafts.