Day 1 - Recovery
You probably slept like crap.
First 10 Days DONTs:
- All of the same Donts from Day 0 except now you can at least take a shower below the neck.
- Wash your head separately with a simple pre-biotic spray shampoo
- No sex, no cigarettes, no alcohol, nor any drug that thins the blood, such as tylenol.
- No hats, no t-shirts, no sprays of the special sebum spray the clinic gives you.
- Don’t even look down for the first 4 days. When looking at your phone, hold it up in front of you.
- Avoid the sun, avoid rain, avoid dust and wind. Bro just stay inside your hotel room and watch some Netflix or something.
- You cannot sweat or let anything touch your new follicles.
- Don’t touch the follicles. They’re still healing!
DOs:
- Eat a lot of protein
- Take a shower below the neckline in lukewarm water, not to hot. Keep the door open, don’t let steam settle on your head.
Day 2 - Follicles stuck
Congratulations, you have reached the point where the follicles are basically impossible to remove, unless they are surgically removed from your head. They can still die if you bump your head. So don’t be reckless when getting in and out of cars.
DOs:
- Bandage removal and first wash with nurse
- I would even use bottled water as a final rinse over the follicles because tap water contains chlorine, calcium, lime and even rust.
- If you need to get on a flight, you should do so after they remove the bandage. Personally, I wouldn’t get on a flight the day after surgery. You’ll be under pain medication, woozy, loss of blood, you need to recover.
Day 3 - You Can Go Home
It’s safe to get on a flight. So assuming you landed on Monday, Tuesday was the operation, Wednesday you recovered in the hotel, Thursday they removed the bandage and gave you the first wash, by Friday you should be in good shape to head back. Your follicles are firmly implanted, congratulations.
Donts:
- Don’t rub or lather the head.
Dos:
- There is no consensus on the best procedure.
- Dr. Gary Linkov of New York says you can just put some baby shampoo in a bowl. Mix it up and pour it over your head gently, that’s it.
- I would add, use filtered water
- My clinic says to use pre-biotic foam and leave it on the scalp and sides and back of the head for 1 hour.
- Then gently tap (not massage) the top of your head. From back to the front.
- Then pour water. - You can massage the donor site but do not massage the scalp!
- Then you can use their special shampoo create a lather in your hands and pour it gently over the head. Then pour water over the head. Do this for the first 9 days.
Day 4 -
- Remember that Day 0 is the hair transplant day. By now you should already be back in your home country.
DONTs:
- Same donts as usual.
DOs:
- Same pre-biotic wash from day 3
Day 5 - Swelling should be gone
DOs:
- Tapping from back to front using the prebiotic foam shampoo
- Use filtered water. Might as well get a shower filter.
- By now, all the scabs from the donor site should be gone
- You will still have scabs on the top of your head
DONTs:
- Again no rubbing, just tapping from front to back
Day 6 - Light lather with baby shampoo
DOs:
- prebiotic foam and wash as usual, but this time instead of tapping you can do a light lathering massage with the baby shampoo
DONTs:
- same old donts
Day 7 - Medium lather with baby shampoo
DOs:
- prebiotic foam and wash as usual, but this time instead of a light lathering, you can do a medium lathering massage with the baby shampoo
Day 8 - Same as day 7
- but apply more pressure, its possible that most of the scabs from the top of your head are now gone, which is good
Day 9 - Same as day 8
Day 10 - Must Remove All Scabs
DONTs:
- Don’t use your finger tips here, but its not a big dealbreaker
DOs:
- Use the inner part of your hand including the palm and fingers to remove all the scabs. This is more efficient than using the finger tips.
- The palm and length of your fingers have way more contact with the scalp.
- I don’t recommend it, but now you can, smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol and take medicines that thin your blood such as tylenol, although I don’t recommend you do any of that.
- You can also get randy and engage in boom boom intercourse shagging time.
- You can also start wearing a cap and start using the sebum spray
- We use the sebum spray because it provides a waxy sebum layer to protect your scalp from dust etc. This is produced naturally when you sweat, but since you’re not allowed to sweat, we use the spray.