I was diagnosed with androgenic alopecia in April. I got the first three PRP treatments in April may and June and stopped shedding was beginning to see good results in August. Then I had surgery two weeks ago (breast redo surgery with implant exchange and lift, lipo of abdomen back flanks and arms fat grafting to butt--approx.6 hr procedure) immediately after I noticed my hair shedding again, and it had continued to do so. Will this get better or worse as effluviums aren't for 3 mo typically?
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Answer: Follow-up Question: Hairloss immediately after surgery with androgenic alopecia, will it get better or will it just get worse?
PRP is excellent at reducing inflammation and supporting the hair follicle. Using your own growth factors, you are able to stimulate growth. I have many, many happy success stories. Where PRP fails is in treating purely hormonal hair loss. In your case, you are hormonally modulating with...
The number of injections differs per practitioner. I believe that is important to inject into the subdermal plane. When injecting in this plane, fewer injections are needed as the PRP can diffuse to different areas. A recent study in the Italian literature has stated that activated PRP is not ...
Thank you for your question. You are asking whether PRP will help reverse hair loss caused by telogen effluvium associated with hypothyroidism. You’ve described in your question that you were diagnosed with Graves’ disease and underwent radioactive iodine treatment in February. In May the sam...