My Doctor Told Me To Sleep A Certain Way for 6 Months After Transplant

i had a hair transplant 2 month ago. the doctor advised me to sleep in a certain way for 6 month, to wash my hair only with baby shampoo. unfortunately, after a month and half after the transplant i started doing foolish things, sleeping the way i always sleep, washing my hair with neutrogena and nizoral shampoo, sometimes even putting pressure on my head. do you think that i could have affected the transplanted grafts . i already see new hair coming out;however, it is not even. also i have noticed that a lot of my hair in the front is falling. headaches are also present.

I like to joke with my patients and tell them, “No sex for 6 months after your hair transplant surgery”. Back in 1992, I had a patient come from Asia and I told him this joke with a laugh in my voice (I am now convinced that the laugh was not translated by the translator as the patient only spoke Korean). At about 3 months, I got a call from Korea by a different translator telling me that my patient passed a message to me: No hair transplant is worth giving up his sex life. Then, I realized that my humor does not work for non-Americans so I now always qualify my jokes being sure that what I say is understood clearly. I may joke with my patients about their sex life and every one of them confirm that they would rather just go bald, so the laugh is mutual.

Joking aside, you can sleep normally a few days after surgery. You can use normal shampoos. You can resume normal activity (yes, even sex). You can even (gently) scratch your head if it itches, run a marathon at the 5th day and do whatever aerobic exercises you want at the 5th day as well.

I suggest that you educate your hair transplant surgeon.