FUE vs Strip Harvesting for Transplants
I am considering doing an FUE, and later on need I recognize that I may want another transplant, won’t the FUE cause my donor availablity to be less as compared to having the strip transplant?
I think that you must put the various surgeries that you may want into a Master Plan for your hair loss. If you are not going to be very bald, then an FUE solution is not an unreasonable one. The long term yields for an FUE may have to do with donor density, but for strip harvesting, I have exceeded 10,000 grafts over more than one surgery. With regard to your query, I do not believe that anyone really knows whether FUE will cause your donor availability to be less than that of the strip procedure, but I would personally doubt that FUE will yield more hair for transplantation than strip harvesting. There may be a role for combined FUE and strip at the end of the process.
A few days ago I had a strip procedure done with another doctor for the frontal zone, and so far things seem to be healing nicely. My Post-Op instructions require me to sleep upright for several days following surgery, which I had no problem doing the first few nights afterwards. However, recently (the fourth night after surgery) I woke up in the morning laying on my side curled up with the pillow and with some of the grafts in one side temple area touching/pressing against the pillow. I must have involuntary shifted my sleeping position during the night, even though I positioned myself upright with pillows when I went to sleep. Now I’m terrified that I might have damaged the fragile, recently transplanted grafts on one side of my head. Although I didn’t notice any bleeding or pain as a result, should I be worried? I’ve been so careful about everything and have been following Post-Op instructions to the letter that it kills me to think that something like this could jeopardize my growth result.