Redness and Hair Loss After Transplant

I had a transplant one month ago and am now very nervous. I was told that shock was NOT permanent yet on one of your blogs from 2005 there is mention of shock loss in balding areas as most likely being permanent. Yet if you took propecia prior to surgery, this shock could be prevented. I had not been given that instruction and have not only been experiencing shock loss in the frontal area, but still have redness that I thought would be gone after 7-10 days.

Is there a risk that the redness is permanent? Was I given bad advise about the prevention of shock loss (does propecia work in the frontal area). I wish I didn’t sound like I’m going off the deep end but this is all pretty unfamiliar territory for me. Please let me know your thoughts.

Redness will almost certainly go away with time. You might try hydrocortisone cream 0.05% and apply it to the red area in three or four 12 hour applications per week. Do not use it chronically, because steroid creams do get absorbed by your body.

If you are a young man and had transplants without taking Propecia, you run a high risk of shock hair loss that can be permanent. The loss usually commences with surgery or a few weeks after the surgery and runs its course over a few months. If the loss is in the area where the transplants were done, or in an area where you were balding prior to the surgery, the risks are higher. You might try to get a prescription for Propecia and maybe you can still save some of that hair.