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Hair transplant after 8 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 8 months after their surgery, and what the same people wrote when they posted again later.

204 of 5,433 patient progress reports were posted at 8 months, 184 of them with photos. How the patients described their experience so far: 65% positive, 8% mixed, 4% negative (the rest didn't say).

Mentioned in these threads: poor growth (10%), scarring (3%), shock loss (2%), infection (under 1%).

Month 8 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

44 of the 171 people who posted at 8 months posted another progress report of their own at least three months later. In their latest report, 30 described their experience as positive, 7 as mixed and 2 as negative; 5 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.

• At 8 months

  “I still have lots of itchiness, my scalp still feels numb at 8 months and as you can see from pics I still have a lot of spots where hair hasn’t grown.”

  8 months post HT. How is my progress so far? Has it failed? (reddit, Feb 2024), with Resul Yaman
  Same person at 24 months (described as negative)

  “Yaman is not a good doctor! He is a great marketer but he is not an upscale doctor by any means at all!”

  2 years update…over harvested? No density? (reddit, Sept 2025)

In their own words at 8 months

• “made the trip to Turkey 8 months ago for a transplant with Dr Dogan Turan.”

  At 8 months, with Dogan Turan. 8 Months Post Op - Turan (Fuecapilar) (reddit, Jun 2025), with photos

• “This is a 8.5 month update of my hair transplant performed by Dr Raghu Reddy in London.”

  At 8.5 months, with Raghu Reddy. 8.5 month transplant + meds update - 2,689 grafts (reddit, May 2023), with photos

• “Fast forward to 8 months after and there was some improvement but still very patchy and right temple still had a bald spot.”

  At 8 months, with Dan McGrath. McGrath Medical Hair Transplant in Austin TX (reddit, Feb 2024)

• “Here's my 8-month post-op video with national hair consultant, Steve Cook.”

  At 8 months. Hello Everyone, I would like to introduce to you My Hairloss Youtube Channel! (reddit, Nov 2022)

• “Today is my 8th month update and decided to make a video sharing my progress.”

  At 8 months, with Raymond Konior. 8 month hair transplant update with Dr. Konior (reddit, May 2021)

How to read these numbers

These are people who chose to post, not a clinical study. Someone worried at month 8 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 8 means 8 to just under 9 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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