I had my HT surgery 1 week ago. My scalp is still pretty scabbed up. My concern is that when Im in the shower (or when i pick at my scalp), I continually see what looks to me like the implanted hair coming out with the scab. I understand that the hair would be lost following the surgery, but I thought that was when my scalped was healed, not during the healing phase. Am I overreacting or am I losing grafts?

Essentially, when the scabs are gone, the risk is over. That generally takes 5-10 days, depending upon the fastidious washing technique. We promote aggressive washing to reduce the risk period to 5 days and to get normal looking in that same period or time, or earlier. With regard to picking it, that is not an option so stop that ASAP, because it might cause you to pick out the grafts that are still attached to eschars and eventually you can get folliculitis (an infection of the hair follicle).