Sorry I've been gone again, but I'm back -and I'm working on the email I have built up for the past few weeks today. I'm back building helmets -with a gusto, I might add... I have 12 or so right in front of me.
Ok, this is why you should use lasers in conjunction with a transplant! CRAZY ASS HAIR! lol... [and yeah, I know it looks funny like that]
This is obviously after my hair dried after a shower without any styling. Again... it's under the HARSHEST LIGHTING CONDITION IMAGINABLE... no pussyfooting around it, those lights are probably two feet over my head, unlike "professional" before after pictures used in studies, etc. (they use ambient room lighting).
Six months, and I'd say every single one of my transplanted hairs is already out. Many have been growing the entire six month and are "pohl pinkus" hairs, which means that you can see how the tip is dark, there is a 1/4 to 1/2 inch of white, and then it turns back dark again. I'll try to take a picture of that soon because they are still on my head like that (and I've already shot a raw video of this that I'll put together later).
Here is what I'd say is profound... all the transplanted hairs were probably easily out by month FIVE at the latest, and that is more than TWICE AS FAST as the transplant I got earlier this decade. I actually remember the first time I really felt confident about my first transplant, and it was past the ONE YEAR point.
If you remember, I used the Post Transplant Healing Device for my recovery, and I attribute most of my success in terms of speed/profundity due to the fact that I used this device IMMEDIATELY after the surgery, and INTENSLY during the first two weeks. In retrospect, I should have used that device MORE, because as we have found out... wound healing is significantly a "different animal" than for hair growth. It requires a lot more joules, and I think I could have probably tripled my use easily and I would have gotten even quicker results.
All of this will be documented in the upcoming video.
Let me tell you what you are looking at with my hair, though, because I want you guys to understand what I am doing here. Yes... I'm growing my hair out LONG. I'm so happy I can finally do that (and I couldn't even do that years ago after my first transplant because it's the LASERS that are making the hair thick, dense, and healthy). Right now, my bangs are way shorter than I want them to be. A lot of the hair from my transplant is still only a couple of inches long, so it hasn't grown out to the length of my other hair yet. WHEN THAT HAPPENS... my hair will look RIDICULOUSLY THICK! So, anyway, that's why there is still a slight, I don't know "comb over?" look to it -which won't be the case in another four of five months once those hairs get longer. That hair on the temples will eventually fall down like the longer hair in the front, and it should look really good.
Anyway, I've made the case a million times... the definition of success with hair loss is this:
1) Find something that stops further loss -which didn't exist for me and a lot others until we found lasers.
2) Find something that thickens and restores a youthful vibrancy to your existing hairs -once again, lasers are the only thing I know of that does this to this extent.
3) Replace the follicles that aren't going to ever come back with new follicles -and the best way to do that right now is with a hair transplant. You're kidding yourself if you think you can reverse loss over ever just a couple of years -nothing reliably does that right now. I'd love for that to change, but there you go... I said it, and not one person can make me eat my words yet.
So, there you go... that's the "definition of success" the way I see it, and the way you should to if you want to stop kidding around with this crap! lol... My hair CERTAINLY didn't look like this after my first hair transplant... it was still lifeless and dead, and I hadn't taken care of the underlying problem.
So, if you think having hair that looks this good is going to make me relax a bit... you are NUTS! lol... I'm going to be working harder than ever to make sure I keep this hair and can continue to wear it full and bushy until I'm so old that it looks ridiculous. ...And like I said, I'm taking the laser helmets to the next level, I've increased productivity, and all I need to do is answer my backlog of email.
FYI... I'm getting married to the laser babe next weekend! Anyone that is in traveling distance to Savannah is welcome to show up! Hopefully Rosario and Nidhogge are going to be there. I've unsuccessfully tried to convince Chore Boy, but maybe I can change his mind further. We are going to do a Ghost Tour on Friday night, drink at a haunted bar, etc.! It'll be a blast!
-John (O.M.G.)
