Smoking Cannabis After Hair Transplant
First off let me say I find your answers to be very informative.
My first question is: Will cannibus affect my hair transplant I had on Feb 08/06? I don’t smoke cigarettes but cannibus helps me deal with my occasional back pain.
Secondly when can I resume my normal jogging of a couple miles in the morning? As well as doing chin ups and push ups? I have been told exercise of these sorts will only expand the the donor scar.
Thank you and i appreciate your advice.
Medically speaking, smoking cigarettes (even the cannabis / marijuana kind) promotes poor wound healing by decreasing blood circulation. It may have an impact on your hair transplant, however, I do not know how much of an impact it will have.
Exercises such as sit-ups that may have a potential to stretch the back of your scalp will also have an impact on your donor scar. Running 1 week after surgery is not a problem. Although you can probably resume most of your regular activity after one or two weeks post surgery, the scar takes about 6 months to a year to completely set and in the first 3-6 weeks, the wound structural elements that make for good solid healing change and build. I generally tell my patients not to do the type of exercises that stress the neck muscles like body press or sit-ups for up to 6 weeks. A few of my patients even ran marathons a few weeks after surgery without any negative effects.
How much of a scar is left in the donor area?
How well does it heal or how noticeable is it after it heals?
Do you have any pictures of this you can share?
Thanks
whats the effect of that?