http://www.morphollica.com/editorscorner Musings and rants on hair loss by the editor of Morphollica.com Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:33:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For all intents and purposes, I have a full head of hair now, after a second hair transplant with Dr. Wong of Hasson and Wong. I went in to the clinic in April and booked a second procedure.  The surgery itself went very smoothly. I have gotten passed the regrowth phase after ... http://www.morphollica.com/editorscorner/2008-09-01/45-months-post-op-after-second-hair-transplant/ Damn it feels great to still have a full-head of hair. The older I'm getting the more my current hair line (post hair transplant) fits my look. It's like I'm settling in. My confidence in how I look has never been higher. I'm in a great ... http://www.morphollica.com/editorscorner/2008-01-15/thirty-four-years-with-hair/ Over the past month or so, I have been getting a lot of comments from people about my appearance.   Several people have been asking me if I have lost weight.  That's one I get quite a bit, despite the fact that I weigh exactly as I did before getting the ... http://www.morphollica.com/editorscorner/2006-08-26/getting-lots-weird-comments/ The last couple of weeks have been good ones for the hair line. The crown is still lagging though. I have a hair line now where I can comb my hair back. Haven't been able to do that in a while. I'm hoping that by next month the crown will start ... http://www.morphollica.com/editorscorner/2006-07-22/still-improving-at-35-months-post-hair-transplant/ I have officially passed the second month mark, after my hair transplant at Hasson and Wong with Dr. Jerry Wong.   At this stage of the game, my hair is still worse off than prior to the hair transplant.  I had 3153 grafts of mostly 1 and 2 hairs transplanted in ... http://www.morphollica.com/editorscorner/2006-06-11/2-months-post-op/ I saw Dr. Wong for the first time in about a month this Wednesday.  I  showed him the acne in the scar and sure enough he said it was ingrown hair and proceeded to pull the hairs that were causing the problem (about 2 or 3) out of the scar.  ... http://www.morphollica.com/editorscorner/2006-05-19/met-with-dr-wong-on-wednesday/ I have been getting some acne in the recipient areas in both the front and crown.  Not to happy about it.   I have an appointment tomorrow with Dr. Wong so he can take a look at it.  In addition to that, I am getting some acne in the scar as well.  ... http://www.morphollica.com/editorscorner/2006-05-16/getting-some-acne-5-weeks-post-op/ I was washing my hair today and lo-and-behold I looked at my hands and there were about 100 hairs in them.  They were definitely transplanted hairs.    For those that don't know, this is perfectly normal.  The vast majority of people shed all of the transplanted hair at some point a few ... http://www.morphollica.com/editorscorner/2006-04-27/shedding-increased-today-day-16-post-op/ That's a pretty exotic sounding name. It's the name of a small berry, whose extract has been shown to be a potent anti-inflammatory in a recent study (Read the extract here). If you follow my column regularly, or my story in the forums, then you know that my scalp is hyper-sensitive ... http://www.morphollica.com/editorscorner/2006-03-23/evodia-rutaecarpa/ and I still hate it.   I started losing my hair when I was 19.  Too young to have to worry about something like that. It ruined the first half of my 20's completely.  During this time, it completely robbed me of my self-esteem with the opposite sex.  I was very ... http://www.morphollica.com/editorscorner/2006-03-22/my-hair-loss-13-years-and-counting/