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Hair transplant after 11 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 11 months after their surgery, and what the same people wrote when they posted again later.
74 of 5,433 patient progress reports were posted at 11 months, 69 of them with photos. How the patients described their experience so far: 70% positive, 7% mixed, 14% negative (the rest didn't say).
Mentioned in these threads: poor growth (20%), shock loss (8%), scarring (7%), overharvested donor area (1%).
Month 11 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
9 of the 62 people who posted at 11 months posted another progress report of their own at least three months later. In their latest report, 9 described their experience as positive, 0 as mixed and 0 as negative.
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 11 months
“The last two photos are today - 11 months after my second FUT.”
At 11 months, with Ken Anderson. One year after 2nd FUT (reddit, Nov 2025), with photos“My 12 month exactly will be on Feb 12th which will be in 2 weeks so it’s not 12 month update it’s 11 month and a half sorry”
At 11.5 months, with Kongkiat Laorwong. 12 month post op HT 2 - Dr laorwong (reddit, Jan 2025), with photos“so this is my 11 month update after 5100 grafts at medblue turkey with Dr. Turan.”
At 11 months, with Dogan Turan. 5100 grafts | 11 months update (reddit, Dec 2024), with photos“I like the hairline, but it lacks density, especially on the right side in the pics I posted.”
At 11 months, with H. Rahal. Dr Rahal|Ottawa|FUE|1654 grafts (reddit, Jul 2023), with photos
How to read these numbers
These are people who chose to post, not a clinical study. Someone worried at month 11 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 11 means 11 to just under 12 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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