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How hair transplants actually work: the difference between FUE, DHI and FUT, who they suit, and the year-long wait for the result to grow in.
A hair transplant, from the day of surgery to the result a year on.

The first two weeks

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Sleeping upright, the donor area, and graft paranoia by night.

The fortnight after surgery generates more anxious posts per day than any other stage: every itch, every pillowcase mark, every oddly flat patch gets examined under bathroom light at 3am. These threads are where readers talk each other through it, usually while sitting up at forty-five degrees.

Reading these threads at 3am

If you found this section mid-panic, the collected wisdom runs roughly: grafts are at their most vulnerable in the first days and progressively harder to dislodge as the fortnight goes on, the donor area usually looks worse than the recipient area and heals faster than you fear, and almost every alarming thing posted here at night turned out to be an ordinary part of healing by morning. The full sequence, day by day, is laid out in the hair transplant recovery guide.

The donor side gets less airtime in clinic brochures than it deserves, which is why so many threads here circle back to it: the shaved band, the healing dots, and the question of how short you can ever cut it again. The site covers that honestly in the donor area and overharvesting.

The boundary the moderators hold: comparing experiences is what this section is for, but bleeding that does not stop, spreading redness, real pain or anything resembling infection is a call to your own clinic today, not a thread. Aftercare instructions come from the team that did your surgery, and where theirs differ from anything written here, theirs win.