Has anyone seen this? "Hanswiemann Nightmare"

[Lead Farmer]

I was refreshing the forum and a user under the name of "Mynightmare" came up as the featured member profile. There was something severely wrong with his scalp. I clicked the thumbnail and in shock discovered he had a huge amount of necrosis on the top of his head. It was disgusting to say the least but he had a link to his website and I wanted to know how this happened.

This is the link to his website: http://hanswiemann-nightmare.com/Home_Page.php
By the way DO NOT click page 3 unless you have a strong stomach.

Now I still don't really know what caused it. Obviously it was part of the hair transplant procedure, but how did it actually occur? What went wrong?

I can't imagine how horrible it has been for this guy, no amount of baldness can even compare to this.

[dudemon]

Don't know exactly what happened in that guy's case, but I had an infection that started immediately after my 1st HT. Mine did not look quite as severe as that, but there were some similarities. Never did find out what mine was, but I did wind up going to about 15 different medical doctors (actual doctors) and dermatologists, toxicologists, specialists, etc... and none of them could quite pinpoint it. What I had was a strain of "folliculitis" according to the biopsies, but it seemed to have taken on more of the characteristics of a full-blown allergic reaction that looked like a variety of scalp psoriasis or "Lichen Plano" (sp?) ... all of which is VERY nasty stuff, and hard to get rid of!

All of the above can cause ALL of your hair to fall out PERMANENTLY. Anyways, that infection took about 9 months to finally subside and cost me approx $5,000 in medical costs ON TOP of the HT.

BTW, my first HT was done by a local hack/butcher who was a "dermatologist" that decided to try his hand at an HT on me and used me as a guinea pig. My results looked horrible and I was forced to get 2 more HTs from a better "world renowned" HT surgeon to try to hide that first one. BTW, the guy who has performed my 2nd and 3rd HTs truly is one of the world's greatest HT surgeons, and his work is phenomenal. He truly is one of the "best of the best."

But getting back to the guy in the pics, I'd say it is an advanced fungal infection, most likely folliculitis caused by the HT. Maybe the instruments that were used were not sterilized properly (maybe an intern doing the sterilization or something?) or using dirty needles perhaps? Who knows.

I know in my case, since my 1st HT surgeon admitted to 400 of my grafts falling on the floor during my HT; and although he denied it, I still think some of them got implanted on my head, either knowingly or accidentally. That was most likely the source of the infection in my case. Since he used a general anesthetic that knocked me out completely (something that is NEVER done nowadays for an HT, BTW), I had no way of knowing exactly what happened.

I am interested to know where they guy had his HT; it could have been the same a$$hole that did my first one?!?!?

That poor guy could lose ALL of his hair permanently.

[Wylie]

I wonder if he signed any paperwork absolving this quack of any legal responsibility? What is sad is this necrosis looks like it will leave behind scarring, which is worse than a bald head, obviously.

Never heard of this fly by night doctor, wonder if he has left town yet

[Man in Space]

I dont suppose that one will be showing up on Dr Wiemanns website. That is truly odd, never seen anything like that before

[hairhoper]

Would probably need a specialist to answer what caused that. But at a blind guess, maybe the local anesthetic used? (The only invasive ingredient other than the grafts themselves).

If you Google 'local anesthetic necrosis' there are a fair few results.

[Cassin]

Good God!

I wish there was more information here....

[Ozai]

OMG that's appalling!
they gave him the Gorbachev look :s
Was is a FUT?

[Wylie]

Check out this dreadful infomercial...multi unit grafting? WTF?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE6f9YDtpHs

[Naltima]

Check out this dreadful infomercial...multi unit grafting? WTF?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE6f9YDtpHs

Began balding at 50 and was completely bald by 52? That must be the first case ever. If you are genetically destined to go from NW1 to NW7 in 2 years then it would probably happen when you're 20, such aggressive hairloss genes do not wait until you're 50. If he said he started losing at 35 and lost it all by the time he was 50 it would be much more believable.

I also love how they have laser combs in the commercials.

The problem is that the hair transplant surgeons don't seem to be regulated as much as regular doctors and surgeons. You don't see a general practitioner doing heart surgery, yet a dermatologist can "try his hand" at hair transplants. The industry needs more regulation and oversight, or things like this week keep happening.

[027969]

I wanted to post a reply because I am the person in those pictures.
Let me first say that I may have joined this site under another name.
I could not remember my profile and pswd. This post was brought to my attention by one of the few people that know of my nightmare.
I update the site every few weeks with new pictures.
PAI Medical Group is the practice that did the surgery. In St. Louis they operate under a hair restoration company called Hans Wiemann.
I want everyone to understand they are VERY unhappy with that website.
That being said...what I say and do not say (here and on the website) is walking a thin line right now for me. I think all of you can read "between" the lines on that I hope.
The doctor is still doing surgery in several PAI Medical locations.
If you review the last pictures (day 82 I think) the last scab is off.
Yes...it has destroyed my life.