Dr. Reyes FUE HT

I'm only two weeks out from the one year mark, so it's pretty clear this is the end. I consider this to be a failure. I don't look drastically different from the before and after. If they would have showed the picture before and after picture below to someone not a single customer would do the procedure. What's worse is I wasn't using any rogiane before, and I wonder if maybe the transplant was a 100% failure and the only regrowth I got was from starting that again.

No one in their right mind would pay money and go through that psychological torture to look like this one year later. Now that it's over with I have to admit I felt suicidal at times, especially in the beginning. I looked so bad and to not even be able to walk outside without a hat for months and wonder if I'd ever be a normal person again was almost too much to bear. You see pictures online where after 7 days you can't even tell they had a procedure, I figured those were the most optimistic cases, maybe for me it'd be a three weeks. After two months it really began to take a toll, and the fact I voluntarily did this to myself made it even worse. I'm not sure what to do anymore, my whole goal was to finish this insecurity I've had basically my entire adult life and nothing is new. The only way to fix it is to get a new transplant and repeat this whole process all over again, which of course I'd be insane to do. Even if I wanted to I only have enough for another procedure and spending three on a small crown area doesn't make sense and limits my future. I'm truly depressed. I get there are people with real problems like growing up in a war torn country or cancer and in hindsight I'm fortunate. But I just wanted to feel normal, I actually haven't swam in a pool for a decade because the back of my head stands out and I was super insecure about it. I felt after this I might be able to feel confident and be myself. Just go outside without any second thoughts, but all I did is lose money, gain extreme anxiety and stress and cover my head in scars.

Here's a 10 month post op. I see Artas wrote to have a dry pic. This one is in between, I just came from a work out so it's in the middle. Supposedly some magic will happen in the next 60 days. I'm required to write 200 characters but don't know what else to say....

Here's my 9 months post op. Pretty depressing. I talked to another hair surgeon via phone and texted him photos. He said that after 9 months I won't see much difference than this. It's not really all that different from my preop photo. When I contacted them they said they would ask the doctor and get back to me. They never did, but the fact that they said they would ask meant they realized there was something wrong. Otherwise if it was completely normal at this stage they wouldn't need to get a second opinion. Truly depressed.