Can general anaesthetic and the healing process from surgery affect a new hair transplant?

June 14, 2015
Asked By:yorkshirepud in Leeds, GB

I had a hair transplant (fue) with around 1200 grafts on the 25th of May. I've shed a lot of grafted hairs and the redness is slowly going. I am due to be operated on on the 18th June for bunion surgery, on both feet. I will be under general anaesthetic and they will be performing an "ankle blocker" so that my feet stay numb for a small period. Can this affect in anyway my newly planted follicles? The company which performed the procedure say not, but I need a professional second opinion. Thanks

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