Hair Transplant 6 Months Update || More Growth| Prp Treatments

Like yes, yes, this is really working. Hey tribe, welcome back to my channel. My name is anja marie. If you haven't been here before hi welcome. My video today is going to be an update on my hair transplant. Now it's been six months, i want to say it's gone by really fast, but it hasn't. No, it really hasn't to me it. It feels like it's been a very steady, slow journey and i'm still on this steady, slow journey. I have implemented faith and i have great patience with what is going on. I'M really super happy with the results, but i thought i'll take you from you know month, three four or is it yeah three, four, five and now six, so first things first um month, three to four! Nothing really happened. If i'm honest, like nothing really happened. It'S just like monthly. I was really excited because i started seeing some growth and my hairline was seemingly thriving. I still have some patches that i was a little bit worried about in terms of like how they would fill in. I didn't quite know how that was going to fit into everything, but you know i was just at that point. At three months i was like listen something's happening, which means more is to come. I think that's just the the mentality i've had and yeah like month. Free was really just. It was like a little kick of faith because i just felt like finally something's happening. I can see something's happening um from month two, but i wasn't quite sure because, like i said before, i've always had hair in certain areas, but there were certain areas which had complete sparsity, like they were really sparse, really thin or just had ball patches. That had been permanently there for a really really long time, so i wasn't really sure what to make of the situation, and also i had to go back to pictures to actually see where those ball patches were. Another sort of worry of mine was um around like the end of my free. When i felt like the back of my head, my donut area wasn't filling in quite how i had imagined it would and um. I had been looking at a lot of videos and also um. There are a lot of clients that i've met during this journey and some of them had had a transplant after me, and i've come in to visit, maybe to get a wig done or whatever, mostly to get a wig done or some sort of a hair service And the back, their donut area had filled in already and was already full and growing back and mine was still sparse. So that raised a lot of questions on my half, because i know that there was um talk, especially like in my comments on tick tiktok. In my comments, um, no actually just in my comments on tiktok a lot of people, a few people mentioned that maybe a friend had got it done and had experience, scarring and yeah. So that had me a little bit worried, because one one thing i know is that the reason why i chose longevita is because they do not over pluck they do not over. What am i gon na call it? They don't overdo the insertion of hairs in the receiving area. That'S one of the reasons why i went to them, because i know that they don't overdo it. They do it just right, and one of the reasons i also know that they are good is because, when i wanted more, they told me no. So that was like one of the things that i really respected about the company. So at like three three and a half to four months, it was like a little worried that had gone into my head and it wasn't really about the company itself. But i know that with every surgery anything that you're going to do, there may be like a negative effect, and i thought is this going to be my negative effect. Is this going to be the effect that i get from this, and if it is, i have to, you, know, come to peace with it quickly, because otherwise, i'm gon na feel like this is a fail. I'M gon na feel, like i gained somehow at the front, lost some hair at the back now, the back of my hair. The density is quite full, so i was like. Am i okay with that? Being that i get like? Am i okay with that? So i had several talks with myself and at the end of that i was like you know what girl you're fine. If it ends up being a little thinner at the back and end up getting a bit of scarring, then you know you knew what you were getting yourself into. This may have been something that you you should have thought about, even though it was something you thought that you were hopeful, that it wouldn't happen to you and now you're at this point, where you think it's happening come to peace with it. So that's where i was at by the time like i was rolling onto month four, so my before, like i said, i've come into acceptance. I was cool with everything and i started seeing a little bit more growth on top of the growth that i've seen in mum free and by this time my hair was just growing. So the rest of my hair was growing, really really like well at the normal pace, but as this was getting higher, you could obviously see the difference between the two like sort of hairs, and i made a decision probably around month four, that i was gon na. Not shave it down completely but cut it down to a level so that when the front started growing in a little bit more or not, even that as the front was already started to grow in. I wanted everything to be the same length, because i knew that if the front was this like shortish level and then the rest of my hair was growing and thriving at some point i was gon na have to cut it, so i made a decision at month. Four to just cut it down and i cut it down to maybe a level three and maybe two weeks later i cut it down completely. Was it two weeks later or was it more towards month? Five, i'm a bit hazy with the details, but um within that period of time. I did sort of like cut my hair down to the same level um as the front, because, by the end of my four i felt like, i could see the hair growing in a lot more and because it seemed fuller. I was going to cut it down and i am still going to keep cutting it down until everything is sort of like the same length, but we'll see how this goes because so far, where i'm at now, i'm kind of happy with the length. So i don't know if i'm actually going to do that right now and because everything seems to have grown in and anything else that hasn't grown in is not worth cutting the all of my hair for if that makes any sense so month. Four again, quite a smooth sailing five for me was probably the one of the most significant parts of my journey. I felt like. I saw the most change during the jump from month: five like the month four and a half time, one five, six, that's when i was like yes, yes, this is really working because um, i am going to show you some snippets and videos. While i'm talking, there was a particular patch that i had on this side, and i wasn't going to be convinced that it was everything was moving along until that part was filling in. I could see like little bits of hair growing in, but it wasn't enough that it didn't look like a ball patch and somewhere between month, five going on to one six. It disappeared and it filled in - and i was so happy about that. So that's when i kind of started feeling more at ease, i would say that um i was relaxed. I was like seven, i would say eighty percent relaxed twenty percent. How is this going to work out during um the first four months and then once i kind of accepted that i may have um like the back might not grow? The way i want to, i was a lot more relaxed. I was accepting everything i just said. You did what you could. I tried to um. What am i gon na call it? I tell people all the time you need to accept what your body is telling you, rather than always trying to go against it and if you've done what you can - and this is how your body's responded to it. You shouldn't try to always go above that, because sometimes you strain your body now that this doesn't apply to everything, but when it comes to the hair transplant, i feel like i've done what i could. I i have come to a point where i felt like you know what marie this journey of you and your hair, you kind of neglected it. You tried not to do certain things to it and it wasn't working now. I'Ve done the ultimate thing i can do to it and, yes, i could go for a round two. It'S not really. What i want to do, though, like this whole thing - and i say this with my experience - is a little bit traumatic, like you're, causing trauma to your head you're, causing trauma to your hair follicles. Yes, it doesn't reawaken your hair follicles and it grows back and stuff. Like that, but it's quite it's not a smooth saline procedure and it's also not a smooth sailing journey. It'S a it's a journey that requires a lot of patience. I know i've got a lot of patience, but even i had that like little moments where i doubted the actual journey, so i can't even imagine what it would be like for somebody else who lacks patience and how they would feel so. Gay, like a lot, goes into this journey, so i really don't want to talk about it lightly. I know that there's certain things that could go wrong and so for me i was just once i came to piece of everything i was cool, so that's what months? Like five like up to month, five after my fall story, i was like and then after i was cool, i was cool. So now we are at month six and no i'm not at the end of month. Six. This is literally the beginning of month. Six and maybe less than a weekend i month 16 was monday, we're now saturday. So i'm like four days post and i've got all my videos ready and i always take videos on the day that i turn like the month goes on and i always take photos on the fifth. So i had the transfer one on the fifth and i took pictures on the of the first month on the fifth of february. Then i did the same on the 5th of march 5th of april 5th of may 5th of june and now 5th of july. So and i'm gon na keep doing that up until 18 months, because i want to show you what the full first year looks like. And then i will do a six month update after the first year to showcase what happens, and maybe one when up when i'm like two years on now. What i do want to say is: once you hit mum six, a lot of people. You do see a lot of growth, but there is so much more that you can get and from speaking to people who are years ahead of me, a lot of people, though they saw a lot of growth up to month six month. Six is more about knowing that the journey is worth it so month. Three for me, was the beginning like you're like yes, i did something here, but mom six is like look. This journey was worth it and then i'm imagining that by the time i get to month, nine i'll be like okay, you can wear your hair out now you can, you can do little things and that's how i'm feeling, like i'm a lot more confident to wear My hair out, i feel a lot more confident about the whole situation. Um and, to be honest, i don't really think i gave a heck. I haven't given a heck about what people think about me or what they think about my hairline or what they think about this. What i don't give a heck! I'M really really doing this for me and i want to tell everyone if anyone that's thinking about doing this, do it for yourself, because nothing else, matters if i, if my hairline could be here, i will do it, but i don't want it to be there. I chose to do it in this, where i, when i got it done so, let's talk about prp, so i've done three. I'Ve done three. I'Ve done three prp treatments since the last time i spoke so since month. Three i have done free prp treatments. I'Ve done them monthly and i do feel like they are contributing to my hair growth, remembering that i'm doing prp treatments here also in my crown area, which was a little thin and my donut area. So as long as i can draw out enough blood um, normally i take about um three three and a half, so we put a little bit at the front um and a little bit like. I want to concentrate also on the middle and then we just put like the remainder at the back and i'm seeing some growth i'm seeing some growth. I don't think i'm i think, i'm seeing i'm seeing some growth, which is the equivalent of what i saw at three months in my crown, so my crown has always been quite like uh like, like. I said i've got pattern boarding in the middle of in my crown area, so i am seeing like little spurts of growth. I'M not expecting it to be like 100, but i am expecting it to get a little fuller. So that's what i want. I i know that this is um. This is something that i may have to keep up with and i do intend on doing prp treatments at least once or twice a year past, all of this so yeah, so the prp treatments. For me are really really working, i am doing them at late night. Beauty salon in peckham. Ruby is the lovely lady, that's doing it for me and um yeah, like i don't have a code or anything i'm paying i'm paying to get it done, and so, when i tell you to go there, it's because i think they're good and that's it so prp For me is a little painful: it's like it's the stinging, that's a little painful like where they inject and you can always get like a cold press and you can get some numbing cream there. But for me none of those things work like the head is such a weird, a weird like place on your body, and you just tend to, i don't know, have more pain there. I guess especially my crown area, it's so tender so sometimes when she does go into those areas. I feel it and i i i feel it so you can probably see my videos i'm like because i feel it, but apart from that, i'm cool like i. It'S really quick and it's over before i can even complain and the results are speaking for themselves. Like i said, i do think that it's contributing to the growth that's happening at the front, as well as the the treatment itself. So i'm really happy with the prp treatments. The second to last thing i want to talk about is um, my hairline and the density of it. So i get a i get a. I got a few comments when i put up the video on tik tok about you, know the hairline being too thick it's too round it's too this, and one thing i want people to understand is it is gon na. It'S probably gon na, be like that um. You may find someone that's able to trace the hairline to match exactly what it would be if you had worn it in a little bit but remember, but that they're just putting hairs to fill in an area that sparse. So, yes, it is gon na be almost too perfect and by too perfect it will result in it. Looking maybe too dense. I don't mind that the reason why i don't mind that is because my original hairline was very close to what it looks like now. What i did and what i probably recommend for you guys to do, is to do your um when you're tracing your line, maybe do it slightly behind your baby hairs. So that's what i did so. My baby hairs come slightly forward. They kind of connect around here and when i traced, when the lady traced my hairline, i then went back and answered just trace it a little bit further back and so maybe like i'm a millimeter behind my actual baby hairs, so that once my baby hairs grow In and everything grows in, it will look a little bit more natural, but obviously much fuller than it was before so where my hairline is is exactly where it was when i was a younger girl and it's just fuller and um. I think they've also filled in places where i know they're filled in places that were also baby hairs and if i had gone behind that, i feel like it would have been looking full and then really really light in some areas which would have resulted in it. Looking like, i had um thinning, so it's it's it's a hard one, because unless you know, unless you tell them to only do i don't know 10 hair and blah blah blah, you have to be really really specific and if i had to go back, i probably Would do the same thing? I do not care about like that particular detail because, like i said, i was quite aware that it was going to look quite dense and give you know planet of the apes. Um, slash um adam's family, but i wanted to reduce it by just putting it slightly behind my hairline. So that's that's what i did if it's something that you feel that you should do. That'S probably what i recommend, but you know if you want the hair you're gon na, get the hair right yeah. Last but not least, what am i taking to help prolong my growth apart from prp treatments, and apart from having done my full blown hair transplant, i'm not really doing anything, i'm very relaxed about it. The reason why i'm relaxed about it is because i don't want to pick up anything that i'm not going to continue doing so, i'm taking my normal, my normal supplements, which are zinc, which is good for hair, skin and nails, and i'm taking you know, um gosh. It'S completely gone out my mind now: magnesium, i'm taking um probiotics and i'm taking. What else am i taking there's one more collagen, so those are the things like. Those are the a few of the well most of the um vitamins that i take daily and i just and i've been taking them. So i'm going to continue doing what i normally do and if i do pick up something else, that's hair sort of related. I would add it in and keep it as that, but as it stands, prp treatments um is probably like the most the major thing that i'm doing to help my head along and like i said i i intend to continue doing that and it's a lot more Pricier, so maybe i'll do it three times a year and maybe i'll do it twice a year i'll have to consult and see what is advised, but it's something that i'm definitely gon na keep on doing. As for my normal tablets, i'm definitely going to keep taking them and then i will see if i need to take anything topical, but i'm trying not to do too much, because what i know to be true is if i do too much, i'm probably not going To keep it up and the whole aim of this is to keep up my normal um, the normal things that i i want to do, and this is not because i'm scared that my hair's gon na fall back out or anything like that. This is a permanent change in my hair. If you speak to any um trichologist dermatologist, a hair transplant is a permanent way of changing um or fixing um traction, alopecia or alopecia that can be fixed by a hair transplant. So it's not something that should revert unless you have a condition or an underlying condition that you don't know about so um. I have known for hair transplants to fail, but again those have been because some people have thyroids or they have lupus or they have um. You know something that's actually like they have cacc. I think it's called um, where literally your follicles attack themselves and you lose hair in a certain area over and over again, and those people can probably not do a hair transplant because, though it will grow back, it will always fall back out. So it just depends on what your your situation is, but for me, after being tested, i don't have any underlying and any underlying issues that i know about. So this is a permanent solution. Plus i haven't done it in my crown area and i've just done it in the places that i have traction alopecia, which i know were um caused by things that were done when i was younger and i could not control. I couldn't control what um, because the damage had already been done and, as i got older, it just wasn't fixing itself and also those kids. Those kids changed everything you know and they just made the situation worse for me, but for some people the hair grows back. For me, i just felt a dramatic change and my hair was so thin after i just couldn't handle it anymore. So that's where i'm at so i'm really happy where i'm at at the moment i yeah, i can't wait to see. I can't wait to come to you guys in three months time and be like guess where i'm at guess where my hairline is now so yeah. So that's it for this video. If you have any questions, let me know i'm always happy to answer. If you do want to know more about this journey, the best place to go would be tik tok. I talk about. I do monthly updates on there they're quick ones, and then i do even like quick ones in the middle of that. I answer questions directly so like tik tok, if you want to be a lot more like involved with this journey, tick tock is my personal tick. Tock is definitely the place to be, and for those of you missing me on youtube, i will be back. I have decided to come back and just do a lot more videos, but there'll be um of more of a variety of content other than just hair. And yes, so i will see you very soon and thank you for watching peace. You