Bad hair transplant please help!

[Martheon]

Awhile back (8 months) I had a hair transplant of 3000 grafts. I didn’t have any hair loss, just body dysmorphia. Something I’m currently in therapy for multiple days a week after the fact.

My hairline really wasn’t that high to begin with, but I went to Turkey and they packed 3000 grafts onto my bare forehead to lower it.

Well, it’s now grown in and it looks AWFUL. The hairs are jet black compared to my light brown hair. Turns out the back of my head is way way darker than the front. Also the hairs are coming in extremely curly and brittle. They point straight up at a 90 degree angle. Also the hairline is so straight and cornered so sharp it’s like they used a protractor to draw the lines. I wasn’t in a good state of mind to agree to this hairline drawing but it happened.

They lowered it so much (1.25 inches) that the hairline sits right on top of my frontalis muscle and actually moves up and down as I make expressions. Also I get very frequent headaches since the procedure. My ENTIRE front half of my scalp is completely numb and it’s very disorienting.

I’ve been near suicidal over this, looking back at my old pictures really saddens me and takes me deeper into depression. My hair was fine.

I’ve nearly my job obsessing over this. All I do is think about this. Obsessing on how to reverse it, how to get these hairs off my head.

Im currently growing long bangs that look really good besides the transplanted hair sticking out underneath them.

I’m very tempted to just grow these bangs long to cover my forehead and tell some laser technicians to super blast all 3000 grafts off my forehead using an Alexandrite Candela Gentlemax Pro. I have NO problem cutting my losses and not replanting these hairs. I also don’t want to risk further nerve damage. As I said before the entire frontal scalp is dead numb. I’ve already found a place that carries the laser and people willing to do it. I’m willing to sit through laser touch up’s the rest of my life to correct this if I have to. Is this an option? Or would the hair all just grow back? How many sessions does transplanted hairs take to kill?

Has ANYONE ever successfully removed a transplant? Another option is for me to sit through 3 years of extensive electrolysis. The last option is to have the entire forehead skin excised and cut off my head and pull the skin from my scalp tighter to lower the forehead. Massive incision, massive scar, and most likely permanent numbness.

I’m not sure what to do guys. I’m leaning on just blasting all these grafts away in one fail swoop with laser and then just doing 30+ sessions or even the rest of my life to keep this hair from growing. Please tell me there is someone out there that has been through this. My hair behind the transplant is completely fine and thick. This transplant is just super obvious and unnatural it sticks out like a sore thumb. Like I said before I’m willing to cut my losses and lose the hairs, just need to figure out how to permanently remove all of them.

[Tansub]

I am in a somewhat similar position, I had 4000 grafts transplanted in my hairline (they claim), like you they stick out a lot compared to my native hair, they are way thicker, the angles are wrong. I want them removed too.

The first thing I want to say is that if you’re like me, it’s probably your body dysmorphia that made you get the transplant in the first place, and it’s body dysmorphia that makes you obsess over the unnatural transplant. People around me barely notice or pay any attention to it.

If you do get it removed, will you obsess over the pitting/cobblestoning/fue scars that you got from the transplant? Will you be ok if hair removal doesn’t give you back exactly the look you had previously? You get the idea, first and foremost it’s important to be at peace with yourself as much as possible before you take drastic steps to alter your appearance again. Right now I can tell that you’re understandably very distressed with your transplant results. I wouldn’t rush anything. You mention you are already in therapy, this might be something worth discussing with your therapist, as well as consulting with a dermatologist to get an opinion. Doing nothing is also always an option.

If you decide to go for removal, I have found a few people who had it done via three different methods : FUE removal, electrolysis and laser hair removal. Each method has its pros and cons.

FUE removal :

An experienced hair transplant surgeon could remove the grafts and implant them back in your donor or other areas of the scalp. The benefit would be that some of the hair can be “saved” unlike in the other two methods. However this would be require multiple procedures, be extremely expensive, and could lead to scarring as well.

This user on Hair Restoration Network forum had a repair with Dr Bisanga in Belgium with satisfying results.

This user on Hairloss experience forum had 4 repair transplants with Dr Feriduni en Belgium.

This user on Hair Restoration Network forum had 3 repair repair transplants with Dr Mwamba in Belgium.

Electrolysis :

Electrolysis will be time consuming and could be expensive too (though much less than FUE removal), but it is permanent.

I asked if I could get my transplant removed via electrolysis in a thread on this forum a few days ago. For what it’s worth, I don’t think it would take 3 years. According to someone on that thread, removing my 4000 grafts would take no more than 15 hours, if you do a one hour session every 2 weeks, that’s about 7 months. It could be less giving you had less grafts, but I’m just parroting what I heard, I haven’t gone through with it myself.

This user on Hairtell forum had his hair transplant in the hairline removed via electrolysis.

This user on Reddit removed some grafts in his hairline via electrolysis.

This user on Hairloss Experience Forum had some grafts removed via electrolysis.

Laser :

Laser hair removal is probably the cheapest option, but it is not very precise, especially if you want to target specific areas in the hairline and avoid damaging your native hair, and it is not always permanent.

This user on reddit used laser hair removal to remove transplanted hairs on his hairline.

Dr Luciana Takata explains a procedure involving Alexandrite Laser Removing of bad hair grafts : Patient hard surgery 15 months prior, aggressive hairline, not natural, multigrafts in hairline. She got part of it removed with 2-3 sessions of Alexandrite laser hair removal and then created a more natural hairline.

Dr Bruno Pinto explaining how he sent the patient to a laser clinic : He sent his patient to a laser hair removal clinic and they took out his transplanted hair to give him his native hairline back.

Someone I talked to online (it was DMs so I can’t share it) got laser hair removal on a transplant they had done ten years ago with most of the hair removed after 3 sessions.

My advice : take care of your mental health, take your time, consult medical professionals, and consider all the options listed above (including doing nothing). I personally plan to let my scalp heal for a bit longer and explore laser/electrolysis options.

[Iluv2zap]

ABSOLUTELY best ever response.