look quite harsh when they have obvious spaces between them in a less than dense hairline.
Finally, after three procedures over a few years, I decided that that was the best I could hope for and went about getting on with my life, trying to put it all behind me, wishing the entire time that I could go back and reverse my initial decision to have hair replacement surgery. As much as I’d been distressed over my rapidly thinning hairline, in hindsight I came to feel it would have been much better to just shave it and get used to a new look, without the shame I felt over having invested so much of myself in such lackluster results.
I went about the business of life, I had relationships, I made friends. Once in a while someone would make a snide remark, and I also felt a bit defensive when in intimate moments with a woman, knowing she had license to run her fingers though my hair and scrutinize it. But in general, people didn’t seem to dwell on my hairline and I just tried to get used to, and move beyond that inner defensiveness I felt, that feeling of having to brace myself at any moment for an unexpected gaze aimed at my hairline or a comment that might or might not have been about my transplants.
Little by little though, I felt the urge to try and repair the results. I started reading hair loss forums and told myself that hair follicle cloning might soon be a reality, then I’d be free to get a repair procedure done without having to go through another strip surgery, with all the negative connotations that held for me, the long healing process, the less than stellar results.
Testimonial Of Patient BG : BG Meets Dr U
Then by chance I came upon something about Dr. Umar. Something told me that this could be my chance. The patient testimonials, and the idea of having a doctor’s time, being the whole focus of his day, not just one of numerous patients in a room that he was juggling. I remembered my surprise on the morning of my first strip surgery,seeing the other patients sitting there, waiting to go under the knife too, and I was really thrown, having assumed it would just be me. I also liked the idea that I could talk directly to Dr. Umar at the consultation, I was tired of the slick sales approach I’d received before where there was a designated hair loss consultant to do the sales pitch. And I realized that the chance I was waiting for was likely already at hand, that Dr. Umar had developed a technique that made waiting for cloning or anything else simply unnecessary.
I summoned the courage to fly back to L.A., my hometown, from my home overseas to have the procedure after meeeting with Dr. Umar a few months earlier when I was back home on vacation. At our initial meeting, there happened to be another patient there, who had had his procedure a couple weeks or so earlier and was in for a followup progress check. When that guy saw me with my seemingly good head of hair, he exclaimed ‘What are YOU doing here?!’ He was in for repair work as well but had far less to work with before his latest surgery than I did.
Dr. Umar seconded his opinion, that in most situations, such results as mine would suffice, in that most people in most situations simply don’t have time to dwell on the finer points of a hairline.But he added as he put his hand on my forhead and held my hairline back to highlight
the starkness of it, that men who are concerned about their own hair, among others, might well notice that sort of thing. I knew then that he understood my situation. He readily added that as far as strip surgery goes, mine was about the best one could hope for, and in that sense I fared well. It mirrored how I felt, that it wasn’t a bad job per se, but an unfinished one due to the limitatations of that technique.
My four days of surgery were tiring, but went by quickly. The scariest part was having to shave my hair very short for the procedures, I’d never had to do that for my prior surgeries. After a few weeks of letting it grow, I realized how having mid length hair had been hiding the extent of my hairloss, which in spite of my surgeries really didn’t even approach decent density when looked at closely. I decided to totally shave it, and kept it that way with daily shaving for a few months, exposing my strip scar.
That was challenging, and a hard part of the process in my case. But inevitably, the time passed and I went about my daily life, looking forward to the day when I would feel it was
a good time to let it start growing.
It’s been almost a year and a half since I stopped shaving, and almost two years since my procedures with Dr. Umar. It’s a wonderful, liberating feeling to have come to this place in time after
years of wishing I could turn back the clock and reverse my decision to try to get my hair back. I can finally release that regret and the heaviness and shame that came with it, and focus on the decision I made to be proactive and address the consequences of my earlier surgeries directly.
I’m very thankful for coming across Dr. Umar and for overcoming the hesitancy and disillusionment that my prior procedures had left me with. Every day has a new sense of possibilities for me now, even when I don’t consciously think about such things.
My hair looks great now, natural and healthy. Dr. Umar’s skill and attention to detail have served me well and I can look people in the eye now and smile from a truly open place inside me, one that is untainted by defensiveness and fear of judgement. This is a true gift, and one I will appreciate always.
Sincerely,
BG