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Hair transplant after 10 months: what patients report
This page doesn't explain the medicine; your surgeon should. It shows what patients themselves wrote on reddit (r/HairTransplants and r/tressless) when they posted a progress report 10 months after their surgery, and what the same people wrote when they posted again later.
150 of 5,433 patient progress reports were posted at 10 months, 134 of them with photos. How the patients described their experience so far: 69% positive, 11% mixed, 7% negative (the rest didn't say).
Mentioned in these threads: poor growth (10%), shock loss (5%), scarring (4%), overharvested donor area (1%).
Month 10 compared with the rest of the first year
Share of each month's progress reports that described the experience as positive.
Where the same people were later
14 of the 130 people who posted at 10 months posted another progress report of their own at least three months later. In their latest report, 11 described their experience as positive, 0 as mixed and 1 as negative; 2 didn't say.
Read this with care: only people who chose to post again are counted, and those who stopped posting may differ from those who kept posting, so this is not a success rate.
In their own words at 10 months
“now that it has been 10 months I will recap my experience with Dr Ratchathorn.”
At 10 months, with Ratchathorn Panchaprateep. Dr ratchathorn 10 months full review positives and negatives 2800 grafts. (reddit, Feb 2026), with photos“Zero shock loss - just maintained my look so no one ever questioned if I had something done or not.”
At 10 months, with Amir Yazdan. Rate my transplant (reddit, Sept 2023), with photos“Going great! Saw a little more growth on the right temple during the 10 month mark.”
At 10 months, with Jorge Cortez. HMR 8 month Update (reddit, Feb 2022), with photos
How to read these numbers
These are people who chose to post, not a clinical study. Someone worried at month 10 is more likely to ask for reassurance than someone who is fine, and a thread "mentioning" a problem can be a worry as much as a diagnosis. A thread counts once, at the point after surgery the patient stated (month 10 means 10 to just under 11 months), even if it names several doctors. Removed threads are left out of the quotes. Your own surgeon's advice comes first.
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