Female Hair Transplant

It’s hard to explain, the hair isn’t as dense as the rest of my hair but it’s not massively noticeable no, people wouldn’t know unless I told them, I still have a long way to go as the longer it gets the better it will sit once it has more weight... I had a large forehead too, in a perfect world I would want more density but I order for me to have more grafts added they would need to shave the hairline back to do the procedure and I’m just not willing to go through the whole waiting game of hiding it again!! I’ll settle and be happy with what I’ve got as we as women will always strive for perfection. It never be fully happy lol x

My transplanted hair is extemly wavy and coarse! Once I’ve straightened it it’s fine but it’s a totally diff texture from the rest of my hair at the min, apparently after your folicals have had a few cycles it will soften, I’ve read that the waviness comes from the hair finding it’s path and pushing its way through the skin as it wasn’t ever supposed to be there... my hair isn’t as thick in the middle as it is on the sides but I believe only I would notice that, people don’t pay as much attention to it as I do loooking at it in the mirror every day inspecting it lol x

Hi Tara! Firstly well done for making the leap to get it done it’s not an easy decision to make even if it is something you’ve always wanted done!
Ok so shock loss... for me I honestly didn’t notice any hair loss but I put that down to mainly having most of not all my transplanted hair placed into lowering my hairline rather than making it thicker... if there was hair loss for me then it must have been minimal because I didn’t notice it as I wore it covered every day with travelling.
The stitches in the back of my head wasnt a massive problem but became a little annoying as I found myself itching through the night then I would wake myself up after hurting myself... again I was travelling so it took a little extra care on my behalf to keep it clean, I will say tho that in the left side it took quite a bit longer to heal and I do believe it got a little infected as one part refused to heal for weeks (again nothing I wasn’t able to stay in top of myself) and that same point I am left with about half the size of my thumb nail (or so it feels) along the scar line that’s bald... this doesn’t bother me in the slightest as it can’t be seen and I never plan on shaving my head lol!
The numbness... ok this worried me for a long time during my recovery, the recipient area was numb for months probably into about 5months if I remember correctly but started to come back little by little (feeling it now I think there maybe be still some loss of feeling but it definitely doesn’t have that strange numb feeling to it any more) the scar along the back was the strangest sensation because it itches fr a long time by I couldn’t feel the satisfaction from scratching it haha... that area was numb for the same amount of time if not longer and when that feeling started to return it was very odd became it now feels like my nerve ending are still repairing themselves as when I brush my hair down the right I can feel tingle so the left of my head... it’s all very odd but I don’t feel I’m left with any permanent damage... the FUT deffo takes longer to heal but I’m still 100% glad I got the results I did... just sit tight and don’t expect anything until the 3 1/2 - 4 month point ish... the waiting is torture... also manage your expectations that you may need a second procedure if you’re not happy with the density (this could always be (FUE) as it would only need a top up but you will need to shave your new hairline back again to implant the new folicals which I’m just not prepared to do! Good luck and I would be very interested to hear how you get on! X

Hi Kelly! Thank you so much for your lengthly and thorough response it really gave me a sense of encouragement and more an idea on what to expect in the future! :) I am happy to report that I got my FUT Hair Transplant yesterday and it went extremely well! I honestly feel like I was nervous for nothing because the procedure itself way easier than I could of imagined and was completely painless. I just posted my review so check it out if you would like! I will continue to update on my progress and follow yours but you really helped me so much :) Xx