Your donor area is clearly over-harvested and this will be a problem that only scalp micropigmentation can solve, see here: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/scar-covering/.  Some doctors just don’t get it and many doctors think because they can perform a successful FUE, that they understand what they are doing. More and more doctor are entering this field today for the money, maybe good for them but not good for the victims they produce.  They are not bad people, just ignorant doctors.  You have to be sure that your surgeon is (1) well trained in this field, (2) have a lot of experience, (3) are actually doing the surgery and not delegating it to technicians (often for hire techs) very commonly done with the Neograft systems, and (4) meet actual patients so that you can judge the competence of the doctor through the eyes of a few patients that had it done.

To help doctors out, I wrote an article to define how a doctor can determine what is the safe limits to FUE (https://baldingblog.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=20123&action=edit) and when you get problems like this man in the picture below where he exchanged a bald top of the head for a bald back of the head, NOT A GOOD EXCHANGE!

Yes, you are an excellent candidate for a hair transplant.  I classify you as a Norwood Class 3A pattern with a residual forelock. This forelock will eventually disappear as you age so creating a hairline for someone like you will give you a much younger look as the man with the before and after photos below.

Using animals for organ donors have been tried for years, but cross species transplants have done very poorly over time.  Now the use of CRISPER can tolerate organ donation much like Dolly the Sheep. Genetic material are used in pig cells in the early embryo and implanted in sows. The plan is to create pigs that have also been altered to make them more immunologically similar to people. In theory, this should mean transplanted organs are less prone to attack by a recipient’s immune system. This work is being done by Robin Weiss of University College London as reported in the New Scientist August 19, 2017 issue.

This research has been around for some time but will the mouse model translate to the human?  We need answers on this before we fully understand the article and its meaning.

UCLA scientists identify a new way to activate stem cells to make hair grow. from science

The answer is no. In an analysis of 500,000 people in Europe (ref:new Scientist August 19th issue), people who were fat, controlled their blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar and exercised, still had a 26% increase in the risk of heart disease and heart attacks. The message is clear, being overweight can kill you!

I like to post interesting readings written by smart young men who do their research. This is such a post.

I am not losing my hair (yet) and do not think I will soon, but I am a pre medicine major who has an obsession over stem cells and want to share something with you all. Your future is brighter than you think. from tressless

Lumps in the donor area 18 months after FUE often reflect burred grafts with a reaction by your body to encapsulate these grafts as foreign bodies.  See your doctor as these lumps can be surgically drained.