Hair Restoration Patient Journey: Axel Lowe, 97.1 The River

It’s Axel low from the radio here at Anderson Center for hair and I just did a life-changing experience something that I thought about for years and that is get a hair replacement treatment I’ve been I’m pcia since I was in my mid-20s when I started to notice it to decline and recede and it held it off pretty well but gradually thin to an uncomfortable level of you know do I go cut it shorter and continue to let it get thinner or do do I do something proactive about it and that’s what I did this isn’t my normal haircut that’ll all blend in in a couple of weeks but they shaved my head short enough so they could have the robot take tiny follicles out from the back of my head now I’m at this point where the hair is in there when you look real close and and you can probably see it from that camera I can feel it they’re in there the tiny hairs all in the areas to where there wasn’t a lot of hair first when you come in you’ll sign paperwork and that’s easy enough and with the results like this I mean I said carp Lodge whatever you need to do to fill in those those thinning spaces all about it Dr rer said has a great photo studio here to where he’s going to take pictures before the surgery different points of your head and you’ll be able to see where you were the hair wash I don’t really remember the hair wash too much to be honest with you you’re you’re awake during the whole procedure but you do have the sedation so it was painless I’m sure it was wonderful and then we went to the the to numb the front I do remember the numbing because that’s what helps keep all the pain away and it’s done gently it’s obviously done professionally and so you’re not out during the surgery you’re there in the seat but everything is painless I do remember the point where Dr Anderson was making the sights the holes to where the new hair was going to go and it was just exciting to see these gaps in the hairline where you know there was a couple of strands where there should be a couple of hundred now it was going to have that they numb the back and when the robot did its thing and extracted each follicle that was going to be transplanted to the front I don’t even remember it I haven’t officially met the robot I knew I was having a robot extract the hair it happened while I was in the room but I never saw it cuz it it it happened from the back I didn’t feel it it was painless at this was the point where the team comes in after the robot had extracted the tiny follicles from the donor area and Dr Anderson and his texts come in and the teens sort out those hairs and that’s when they start placing them in the areas of deficiency and that’s where you see all this start to come together it’s the exciting part after that they clean it up not a lot to clean there’s not a lot of mess there you just have these great new follicles in the front areas where you were deficient and they cover up your hair and you are set to go and they go over some posttop instructions and you’re still a little sedated you can walk you can talk but you probably won’t remember 100% of the instructions that’s why they like to have a spouse or a friend there to go over the instructions with you for the posttop care and they also have them printed in the bag for you so you’ll have your medications in case you have any pain or discomfort or have problems falling asleep at night you’ve got all that with you with the clear easy to follow instructions and you head home and you know for me I went to work the next day so the whole procedure took I I was in here at Dr Anderson’s office in the morning I was home by early afternoon it was a few hours but with the sedation it truly felt like 20 minutes so it’s going to go by fast in your mind and the next day there people that go to work I went to work and I just watched the exercise over the next week and didn’t do any heavy lifting or or bending over too much but other than that it was just normal normal every a living with Zer p