Shock Loss Around Donor Scar After a Hair Transplant?
Hi dr. rassman, thanks for the great blog
I have extensive shockloss around the scar from a recent strip hair surgery.
Do you think minoxidil would be good to help reverse the problem, and help the shocked hair to “fully” come back around the scar?
Loss of hair from around the scar is often the result of a surgical closure which was too tight. Sometimes the hair returns on its own and sometimes it simply doesn’t. Minoxidil won’t hurt, but probably will not help.
This has the potential to cause a very wide scar. Speak with your transplant surgeon about this problem and ask him/her if the closure was tight.
Dr. R.
I think it would have been nice to at least let the person asking the question know that more than likely the hair WILL grow back and it is in small cases that it will not. I read your responses to questions and you seem so insensitive by the way you answer your questions. Is it so hard to to provide hope to the people desperately seeking guidance from yo? SHeesh! I hate doing a search and getting a one of your responses come up. Please try to be more sensitive.
The original poster asked if it will “fully” come back, and my reply to that was, “Sometimes the hair returns on its own and sometimes it simply doesn’t.” And that’s the truth. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. I don’t know enough about this case to give hope one way or the other.
I answer a lot of questions, so there could be times where I’m very matter-of-fact in my responses… but also, sometimes the written word can come across as being without feeling. That’s never my intention, though.