Nice to meet you, I am Young Bald Boss!
This is the first time I have opened my blog, and today I am posting my first article.
This will be my first article, so some parts may be difficult to read, but I would be pleased if you could warmly welcome me.
Now, I would like to quickly move on to the main topic!
I had a hair transplant surgery of 1,500 hair transplants at the Island Tower Osaka clinic on Thursday, August 29, 2024, about one week from today.
In this article, I will talk about the process during the surgery and before and after the surgery with photos!
Before&After Photos Surgery
Before Photos Surgery
I’ll show you pictures of how my hairline has changed before and after the surgery in photos!
*Please note that the post-surgery photos are a bit gruesome.
As you can see from the photo, the M-shaped area had receded considerably. Recently, I have been wearing a center parting to hide the receding M-shaped part, but when the wind blows, my baldness is revealed, so I always met my friends outside with a sense of fear.
After Photos Surgery
Next are the post-operative photos. As mentioned above, if you don’t like blood or have a phobia of aggregates, you may want to avoid looking at them…!
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On the day of surgery, I was bandaged as it was, so this photo was taken the day after the surgery, just after the bandage was removed at the clinic. Contrary to appearances, I felt no pain during the surgery or when removing the bandage.
Up to the day before surgery
Advance preparation
My first visit to the clinic and decision on the date of my surgery was made on Saturday, July 20, about a month before the day of my surgery.
After an online consultation with an advisor, I visited the clinic to decide on the number of hair transplants, and blood tests, apply for a medical loan, sign a consent form, and decide on the date of surgery.
And the day of the surgery arrived.
How to spend the day before
I live about an hour away from the clinic by train and originally planned to go from my house to the clinic on the day of surgery.
However, the trains might stop due to Typhoon No. 10, and to my surprise, the APA Hotel, where I had planned to stay the night of the surgery, kindly arranged for me to stay for a total of two nights starting the day before!
The typhoon had nothing to do with us after all, but I soaked in the hot springs, took my time, and enjoyed the hotel.
And the day of surgery arrived(。-∀-)
Day of Surgery
Flow of surgery from arrival at the clinic
When I visited the clinic, I was taken to a waiting room.
There, I changed into my surgical gown and had a final meeting with the primary surgeon.
Finally, I received a call to finalize my medical loan, and then it was time to go to the operating room!
Two nurses greeted me as I entered the operating room.
I took painkillers, a drug to make me sleepy, and a tranquilizer, and then the back of my head, the donor area, was clipped with clippers. (I found my head was bumpier than I thought when I touched it.)
After that, blood pressure was taken, an IV was set, and the surgery began!
How it looks and feels during surgery and pain
The surgery lasted about 4 hours.
The position I was in during the surgery was somewhat painful, but there was no pain at all!
However, when the anesthesia was parked on the transplant site, my blood pressure rose and I felt sick, so I had to take a break for a few minutes (-_-;)
And I was very sleepy, probably due to the medication, and slept more than half the time!
However, even when I was awake, there was no pain, but when the hair roots were being extracted from the back of my head, the donor area, I could often hear the sound of the hair roots being dug out with the surrounding skin lol.
Postoperative Impressions and Conditions
The surgery itself was painless and was over in an instant, probably because I was out of it the whole time!
Maybe that’s why I came back to the hotel without feeling that I had had a hair transplant.
After the surgery, the donor and transplant area was bandaged and I wore a knit cap over it.
No one noticed that I had a hair transplant on the way from the clinic back to the hotel or even in the hotel!
I was very thankful for the knit cap. -∀-Holy s**t!)
I showered only my body that day and went to bed. When I went to bed, I found it somewhat difficult to sleep due to the stiffness of the bandage, but it didn’t bother me after a few minutes 💤.
Day after surgery
Postoperative Care
The day after the surgery, I went to the clinic in the morning to have the bandages removed.
They are the photos I showed you after the surgery.
The nurse wiped the donor area, and next, I headed to a clinic-affiliated hair salon to wash my head and put on a hair sheet.
As you can see from the photos, the hair sheet could be installed to hide the donor area without discomfort!
When I arrived at the beauty salon affiliated with the clinic, I was greeted by a friendly-looking hairdresser lady.
She washed my hair very gently. She did not touch the grafted area directly to avoid irritation, and she did not shower directly on the grafted area either.
I had to wash my hair this way by myself for the next week, so I learned it well and went home.
Summary
Reflecting on this experience
Actually, I started thinking about hair transplant surgery more than two years ago. At the time, I was having a lot of fun with my college friends, and while it was fun, I was always afraid that my friends would find out that I was “bald”. I wanted to improve my “baldness” somehow without my friends finding out, so I was prescribed Androgenetic alopecia (AGA) medication, but although I felt some recovery, the M-shaped part of my hair never returned.
I took a year off from college, so I knew that by the time I was a senior, all of my friends would have graduated and I would be in the second semester of college and would have finished all of my classes and would not have to go to school for a while. I thought that if I did a hair transplant at that time, I would be able to get rid of my “baldness” without people around me finding out about it!
This time, I had the surgery at the exact time I had planned at the time. It’s only been a week since the surgery, and I honestly have a lot of concerns about whether my hair will grow back well and whether I will be able to do it without people around me finding out.
But at the same time, I have hope. I have been unable to do many things that I used to do for fear of people around me finding out that I was bald, such as going to hot springs with friends and playing sports….
I would like to end this post by praying that the planted hair will take root and grow back in the future so that I will be able to fully enjoy the many things I have been unable to do.
I will also keep you posted on my progress as I go along.
Thank you very much for reading to the end! ☺