Complications 2 years later? Help very much needed.

[s.a.f]

I've had several bad hair transplant's my strips were real botch jobs but the numbness soon faded.

 

[LooseItAll]

I honestly believe that the surgery is the cause. I have read about many horror butchered hair transplant stories and damaged nerves. It perfectly fits your case. The worst thing it that there is nothing that can be done TBH.

I hope that it is something else.

Since you have heard about many horror stories you will be able to mention a few of those here (with links); otherwise you are just frighten this person with no reason at all


By the way I see no reason why one scar may damage nerves and one other not, since they both cut the same area of skin (even if a bad scar may be not well closed, but this has nothing to do with the initial cut area).

Oh sure because I had to predict that some "overly optimistic about hair transplant" guy (who did a 900 graft strip hair transplant :jackit: ) will want a proof and save those links.

If you don't believe me, that's your problem. The man needs help and I am addressing the possible cause of his problems. It may or may not be it, but he will need to check it. About the second part, email a reputable hair transplant surgeon for more information.

 

[jccidol]

I assume no one whose replying to this post is a doctor, but does it sound normal that even if I did have some nerves damaged by this, that 2 yrs later they're still bothering me like this?

The last week especially, my head has been killing me. It's so sensitive even to the touch and like, my whole head just feels numb....I talked to my neurologist today and I asked him if headaches can make the head feel sensitive to the touch and he said they can, but I just don't know what's wrong with me and I'm starting to lose my mind over this. He gave me some meds to take for the headaches and I told him they haven't helped, so he doubled the dose of them, and I start the doubled dose tonight.

The one guy who just replied to my post said he's had a few bad surgeries and all his nerves fixed themself, but I just had one and I just don't understand why I'm still having these problems 2 yrs later...I know the surgery is the cause of the numbness in certain areas of my head, like in some spots in the back, because it's been constant the whole time, but now I'm feeling sensitivity in all areas of my head and I don't know what's causing this or who to go to about this..

 

[LooseItAll]

I guess you need to contact a reputable surgeon. Maybe he had cases like yours and has a remedy.

 

[twinturboGT]

You could have some kind of neuropathy going on with some of the nerves around your head. The headaches are caused by nerve impulses sent by the nerves within the musculature around your head and not "inside your skull" as was previously mentioned. I would say do some research on neuropathy and nerve damage to the facial nerves above the eyes( this is where the nerve block would have been done) and also in the back of the head. Try reading up as much as you can and the next time you go into see a physician ask them targeted questions that will hopefully get you closer to the answers you seek.

 

[thylax]

I honestly believe that the surgery is the cause. I have read about many horror butchered hair transplant stories and damaged nerves. It perfectly fits your case. The worst thing it that there is nothing that can be done TBH.

I hope that it is something else.

Since you have heard about many horror stories you will be able to mention a few of those here (with links); otherwise you are just frighten this person with no reason at all


By the way I see no reason why one scar may damage nerves and one other not, since they both cut the same area of skin (even if a bad scar may be not well closed, but this has nothing to do with the initial cut area).

Oh sure because I had to predict that some "overly optimistic about hair transplant" guy (who did a 900 graft strip hair transplant :jackit: ) will want a proof and save those links.

If you don't believe me, that's your problem. The man needs help and I am addressing the possible cause of his problems. It may or may not be it, but he will need to check it. About the second part, email a reputable hair transplant surgeon for more information.

You are just proving what I mentioned. That with no reason at all you scare a guy who had a bad hair transplant, having no evidence even if you "have heard of many horror stories". By the way, below, is a pic of my head after the 900 graft strip you are making fun of.



Also, regarding that emoticon you have placed there, yes I admit I do this action... on your face

 

[jccidol]

have you had some kind of nerve damage from yours? I'm really starting to think that I'm having some. The last week, my headaches have intensified, my head has become very sensitive to the touch...even in areas that I didn't have ths surgery, it's weird. My head has always been numb in the back of my head after the surgery, so I know the surgery caused that..but it's really weird that I'm having this problem all over my head, 2 yrs later. Another weird thing that I've noticed the last few weeks is, after I get out of the shower, the tips of my fingers tingle...and it only seems to happen after I get out of the shower...and that's certainly never happened before, even after the surgery.

So, even tho I'm having problems in my head with the headaches and the sensitive scalp/numbess, I don't know if I can say all of this is because of the surgery?

Has anyone else experienced this, especially 2 years after their surgery?

 

[thylax]

talk to a surgeon and dont lose your time in here, I dont think think that there is connection since I didnt experience something like that or read about something like that in any forum (and I have read a lot) but you should talk to a med. Google dr Ziering and ask him. He is a good guy and spends time with people that had problems from previous surgeries; or any other reputable doctor, for example dr. Shapiro.

 

[jccidol]

Well, I have an appointment to talk to Dr. Ziering tomorrow..so maybe he can shed some light on this for me. I'm so scared that I might have some permanent damage with the head numbness because it's been 2 yrs and it's been numb in the same areas in the back of my head since the surgery happened, so I know it's from that, has anyone else had numbness thats lasted 2 yrs, but it eventually went away?

I do have some hope because even tho it;'s kinda numb, it's not totally numb, I can feel myself touching it, but it doesn't feel normal, if that makes any sense?

It's just weird that the problems I've been having the last week or so with the headaches the feeling of the sensitivity throughout my whole scalp, I don't know if that can be related to the surgery because it's in areas that the surgery wasn't done on? This is just very hard on me mentally that's for sure

 

[thylax]

There is a possibility to have some kind of a panic attack. These cannot be related (at least all of them) to hair transplant. Maybe you should also talk to a pathologist after dr Ziering and try medicine like Xanax to help you calm down (if the pathologist approves this of course). Good luck anyway.

 

[jccidol]

What do you think isnt related to the hair transplant?

 

[thylax]

a subset (at least) of the symptoms you are talking about. anyway, you better talk to dr ziering; he know better

 

[jccidol]

Has anyone had problems like this but it's gotten better 2 yrs later or even later than that? The pain/numbness in my head is in the back of my head where your back kind of bumps out, if that makes any sense. It's hurt in that spot ever since the surgery. It only seems to hurt if I touch it, or lay on it. I was thinking of going to see a Vascular Specialist. I don't know if he'd be able to tell me if anything was damaged during the surgery or what.
I want to be proactive in this because I don't want to live the rest of my life in pain because of this damn surgery. Unfortunately I can't take any legal action against NuHart because the statute of limitations has expired, but I don't really know what else I can do.
A lot of people whose replied to this post have been saying they don't think this is related to the surgery, as far as the headaches go, but I know this specific pain that I'm talking about here in the back of my head is related to the surgery because it's been there ever since the surgery.
I talked to Dr. Ziering yesterday, and he said possibly trying the HairMax lasercomb, that might help regenerate some nerves that might be alive, he said another surgery could help because he's done them before where people have been in pain and then anohter surgery has helped.
If the nerves were dead tho, I wouldn't be in pain like this though, would I?

I don't know what to think anymore. I'm just so tired of dealing with this pain already.

 

[LooseItAll]

You are just proving what I mentioned. That with no reason at all you scare a guy who had a bad hair transplant, having no evidence even if you "have heard of many horror stories". By the way, below, is a pic of my head after the 900 graft strip you are making fun of.



Also, regarding that emoticon you have placed there, yes I admit I do this action... on your face

lol it's not about the recepient area but donor. No reputable Doctor will do a strip for 900 grafts and leave the paitient with a scar(thus robbing him of from an option to shave it all off), where he could do it with FUE almost scarless(due to the low amount of grafts). That along with your signature advising young guys to go for a hair transplant is just ridiculous. There is no rush for hair transplant and young people should avoid the mistakes I, you and many others here did.

Anyway jccidol did not get scared by me or is not complaining about me sharing what I know so you shoudln't either. Now I hope that we have this sorted out as I am not going to continue this.

jccidol I hope everything will work out well for you.

 

[jccidol]

could having the strip procedure cause complications a few years later that im experiencing now? im just trying to rule out every possibilty that i can. what makes me most mad is, i didnt want to do the strip, and they are the ones that convinced me to do it when i got there, by saying he thought it'd be better to do it that way because it'd give him more flexibilty to work and place the hairs better. I regret that every single day.

 

[LooseItAll]

could having the strip procedure cause complications a few years later that im experiencing now? im just trying to rule out every possibilty that i can. what makes me most mad is, i didnt want to do the strip, and they are the ones that convinced me to do it when i got there, by saying he thought it'd be better to do it that way because it'd give him more flexibilty to work and place the hairs better. I regret that every single day.

yep they do strip to have you tied to hair transplant forever.

 

[jccidol]

I'm noticing that on the back of my scalp seems to have a lot of like, bumps I guess is that way to describe them on the inside it feels like of my cranium..and I'm almost positive that I never had that before...I used to give myself scalp massages all of the time to stimulate blood flow before I had my surgery and I could swear I always had a smooth head in the back of my head....is it possible that the surgery could've caused me to devolp these bumps in the back/inside of my head and could that be causing this pain that I'm having? It's like the whole top and back of my head is bumpy now and I know it was never like that before. I described it as bumps earlier, but it's not even like bumps, it's like the formation of my cranium seems to of changed, to a more bumpy formation, and i know that is was never like this before in areas that it is now, is this even possible? Has anyone else experienced this after a surgery?

 

[LooseItAll]

Maybe it is some kind of infection or fungus developing?

 

[jccidol]

How would I get that checked out?

 

[thylax]

is everything OK now dude? how is it going?