To Everyone,
Well I've done it. I've had my HT. My experience overall has been pretty good. Not looking forward to the next 10 nights sleep with these staples in the back of my head... But I am looking forward to 6-9 months time when I get to see the real results. The people at transmed were very accomodating. They picked me up from the airport and took me to transmed and my hotel at no extra cost. After being evaluated in person it turned out I needed less grafts than they initially thought from the photos I sent so they actually gave me ?‚¬300 back!

All concerns I had as to the quality were gone as soon as I got into the building. It is remarkably clean, the floors are white and yet show no dirt at all. It seemed there was always someone cleaning. There was a big TV in reception that was playing repeated footage of Dr Melike (pronouced Mel-ike not Me-like, oops) appearing on various news channels such as CNN giving interviews on HT.

As I waited in reception I was sat next to two people with full heads of hair. When I went into the consultation room and asked about success rates and what the scar would look like I was very happy to find the two people I'd been sat next to were actually patients. The consultant showed me their before photos on the computer and when I went back into reception both were happy to show me their hair and FUT scars. Both were clearly very happy. One was in for a checkup and photos, the other was in for FUE this time into the FUT scar and a bit more in his templates. I had been asking the consultant about FUE into the FUT scar, although when the patient getting it done showed me his FUT scar I did wonder what is the point? The skin under your hair is very pale, just like a faded scar, his FUT scar was hard to see.

The procedure appeared to go smoothly. Dr Melike removed the section of skin from the back of my head, then proceeded to make the channels for the new hairs while the technicians separated out the hairs from the strip. Melike inserted the outline hairs the the technicians did the rest one working on either temple. They gave me a sedative before they started so while it was happening I dosed in and out a bit. They gave me a remote and I had a hundred or so channels to choose from. Although with the dosing I just left it on VH1. Once complete they gave me a pack and a load of drugs to take with me.

I'll be starting my weblog on this soon and upload some photos. They were also happy for me to take photos of the transmed building inside and out so I'll put those up as well. As for spending money, I spent less than 90 lira over the 3 days (about ??45). I'll tally up my total costs including travel, etc.

The only thing I'm really regretting at the moment is that I didn't realise they do laser hair removal as well, as I could have had my chest and back done at the same time


HunkyMonkey

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HunkyMonkey,
Great to hear your HT experience was a good one. Keep us posted and please put up pics! All the best in the lllloooonnnggg healing process.

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HunkyMonkey,

Thanks for sharing your hair transplant experience and congratulations for selecting an excellent surgeon to perform it.

The first few days are never real comfortable sleeping, but after a few days, you should be fine :-).

I encourage you to post some photos of your procedure and then keep us updated monthly so we can follow your progress. The best way to do this is by creating a free patient website.

Heal and grow well.

Bill

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HunkyMonkey,

Its good to hear that you had a good experience at Transmed. I have been considering transmed recently as well.
Although Transmed have some pictures on their website (same ones for long time as ive been observing), there dont seem to be enough patients in here WITH pictures.

Please, please have some pictures uploaded soon so that we can see your new roots! Cheers

Hey Hunkymonkey,

I am glad that you had a very nice experience.

As I am a Turkish citizen and living in Istanbul, I could not enjoy the services you experienced.
However, I agree with you about the profeesionalism and everything else.

By the way, I got my operation 5 month 1 week ago.

The results are amazing, it really worked very well on me. All of my friends, family tell how amazing the results are. Unfortunately, I am too lazy to take pics and upload them

Hope you will see nice results.

I've got my pics up now:-

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HunkyMonkey,

Congratulations on your HT. I had my HT with Transmed on July 7th and it's been almost one month now It's good to see more members who had thier HT done with Transmed. Happy growing

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HunkyMonkey, Mahmood

Great to see you guys putting some pictures up now. This will no doubt help people like me trying to see what Transmed results are like.

Also, there is no pictures in here of scars from any Transmed patients. Can one of you guys kindly be the first to put up a picture of your scar at the back.
Trust you guys will continue to update us with pictures.

I am very keen on seeing some pictures of 'mop' as he is well ahead of you guys.

By the way, which Doctors at Transmed did your HT? (there are a few there)

Stepladder,

Sorry i didnt take any pics for my scar and i wont do that. Simply because i dont wanna see it. But people who checked it actually tell me that you cant notice it. Also, i have so much hair to cover it so the scar isnt a big deal for me.

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OK chaps - I will do some PICs soon - I think Mahmood, Hunky Monkey and me should be known as the "Transmed 3" - or does that sound too notorious ?

I am almost three months and the little buggers are making a re-appearance - something positive to show !

I will do a scar pic too.