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Add some B6 to your supplement regimen.

Looking forward to your results. Just out of interest how did Dr Hakan remove the wrongly angled hair?

Juice cleanse can also be referred as a juice fast. Ideally, you should do this for three days if you want to lose fat as well as detox at the same time. Keep your meals to a very minimum and replace them with soups and smoothies if possible. Avoid meat, processed foods and high trans fat oils. If you're juicing, use hard veggies and fruits. Apples, carrots, celery are great. For softer fruits, like blueberries, strawberries, bananas use a high speed smoothie blender. You can add hemp seed, oats, cinnamon, cacoa, green tea powder to your mix and use almond, coconut or rice milk instead of full fat pasteurised milk. Adding Chlorella or Spirulina is good for cleansing toxic waste from your body. I would not add protein powder, unless you want to build/repair muscle. Once you have completed your 'cleanse', you need to wean back slowly to your regular intake of food. With juice fasting I can lose almost half an inch from my waist in 3 days. My family juices almost everyday using a high quality masticating juicer the Omega Vert 350HD. It's not cheap but well worth it. Raw juicing can cure a myriad of diseases and ailments. To your health!

Whilst I certainly agree that India's Medical Science industry is highly advanced compared to Pakistan, even surpassing Western standards especially in the field of Bio-Pharmaceuticals, I don't think a fair comparison can be made of surgical facilities between India and Pakistan without having first hand experience in both countries . I had my HT in Pakistan having travelled from the UK and the facilities were to a very high standard and that includes hygiene. I am considering private dental treatment in Pakistan next time after seeing facilities over there. They are much, much better than what we have here in the UK, bar the really top end of the market. The practitioners in Islamabad are highly trained in the UK. Pakistan has perhaps the best technologically equipped and research cancer hospital in South Asia. It is one of the few South Asian countries that has the exclusive robotic Cyberknife treatment and offers it at FREE cost (usually costs $50,000 to $90,000 in UK and USA). India also has the Cyberknife treatment. Government run hospitals are a different kettle of fish altogether, where facilities, standard of care and ethics are lacking in BOTH countries.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience in using silicon gel like 'Dermatix' as an effective adjuvant treatment for donor scar line reduction? I have read a few opinions from medical doctors that it may show improvement for raised or hypertrophic scars. My scar has not fully healed and it is still raised at 15 months. I was considering Bio-Oil but there seems to be little medically backed evidence of the benefit's for it's main ingredients.

Tried it with a 0.5 mm and it was quite painful, brought tears to my eyes. Scalp was pretty sore for 2 days.

Sent you a Private Message, indicating the price.

Dear Dr Humayun, Thankyou for publicly responding to this forum, although I wished you were more communicative on a personal level, i.e. by email or telephone. This would have helped in restoring some confidence I may have lost in you. I acknowledge there are many, many people who speak highly of you as an individual and surgeon. I was recommended by a colleague who has had great results with you and another who has had satisfactory results, great scar line visibility, but a few issues regarding recurring cysts. My experience at HTI was excellent, but results not upto par. During that time, I have recommended quite a few people to you, some of who went onto have surgery at your clinic. I have their PM's. I will be contacting Shahid shortly, so that we can bring a closure to this. Thankyou for your support Dr Humayun, this time round.

Hi Adam, Although, his consultant has been professional and courteous at all times, Dr Humayun has not been responsive and communicative. When I contacted Dr Humayun via PM and by email, his 6 word response was a curt, 'ask my consultant to answer you". If he was busy during that time, I certainly have the patience to wait until his professional advice was available. The consultant who I originally was dealt with prior to the HT and after did reply back quickly and offered to correct my issues next time round. Most likely, I will decline as I will consider FUE closer to home and not FUT. I am not willing to risk having another strip surgery, by the same surgeon. I may have been unlucky, who knows. I did ask for a refund, let's see. I had FUT strip surgery at the HTI. Right now there are other priorities to deal with and I just have to move on. Thankyou David and Bill for your support.

Thankyou all for your comments. To be honest having looked at the Doctor's prior patient photo submissions on this site I was not expecting high density anyway and a second operation would be required in future. I understood this very clearly from the outset. I kept my expectations realistic, albeit optimistic considering the reputation of the surgeon. My main emphasis was on restoring a 'natural hairline'. However, results have been below par in the areas I have pointed out and I am being conservative here, when I state that. Although, the camera is not able to show it clearly, the donor scar area is a little raw and pink. The whole experience and results have put me off FUT, not withstanding there are some great accomplished strip method surgeons with consistent results. I'm sure the doctor will try to address my disappointment, but at this stage I don't feel confident in travelling all the way to Islamabad away from my family and having strip surgery performed by the same doctor. This is especially, not an option for me as my only sister was diagnosed with cancer last year and I have to accompany her for treatment in Surrey and Chelsea. I would much prefer a refund of the HT surgery and then when I am ready, have less, invasive, high density FUE done by a doctor who is more hands on and involved in the procedure, somewhere closer to home like Turkey. I have sent the surgeon a PM.

First of all apologies for the delay in providing an update. I have updated my Hair Loss website with 12 month photos taken outdoors. For a broader perspective, I have included below, photos taken indoors. There are 3 main areas to give you an update on the 12th month mark: 1. Scar line 2. Density 3. Graft angles at left side temple. 1. The couple of scabs I have on my scar line have still not healed. When they drop off, new ones appear in the exact same location. This situation has been ongoing for 12 months now. 2. Density remains low. My mid region appears more dense than my hairline. This is because I still had native hair in this region. 2600 + grafts should have given me a decent hairline as this was discussed with the consultant prior to my HT, who assured me that they would work with greatest density in the hairline. 3. The angle of grafts in the left temple area do not seem to fall natural from a left to right parting. A few are literally pointing down and looks completely unnatural. The few friends and family who know I had a transplant have candidly stated that there has been little improvement since my HT. I feel deflated. This has not been a satisfactory HT result for me.

What made you decide on Dr Humayun? Before your blood tests, did his consultant not evaluate your donor suitability and discuss the hairline design based on your age and future hairloss? Did Dr Humayun stencil (mark) the hairline and recipient area when he was taking photos of you at different angles. I would really take issue if Dr Humayun did not come back to evaluate the completed graft placements. Transparency is an issue with Dr Humayun's clinic as I too was not given a breakdown of how many single, doubles, triples and Quad grafts were extracted. So, how they arrived at the final amount of grafts, is anyone's guess (no pun intended). Please keep us updated with photos, pre-op and post photos. So far, I am not pleased with my results at 12 months stage. I will be posting soon.

Hi StylishBoy01, First off, congrats on your wedding for next month. Secondly, don't let cheaper doctors and celebrity surgeons sway your opinion. Look at their results submitted by patients and research them on forums to see if there are any complaints against them. Dr Humayun, might be your nearest surgeon as he does have a clinic in Peshawer too I believe, however, his results tend to be still on the thin side. My HT with him has not been the best of results. Dr Radha in India, seems a better option with better density pack and the fact that she is hands-on that does part of planting the grafts. All the best!

Here are update photos at the 11 month mark. I would like to say at this point, I don't feel that I am pleased with the results achieved, thus far. Perhaps my expectations were higher. I still have a couple scabs forming along the scar line and they reappear when they fall off. I am not happy with this as it can become a little painful when I am sleeping at night. It's always in the same area. Density is lacking considering I was told by the HT consultant that they would add density in the frontal zone and then work towards the back with less density as I still had some hair in the midscalp region. During my consultation prior to my HT, I specifically stated that I did not want a pushed back type of hairline. I had a natural parting that fell from left to right side. The grafts in my left temple area do seem to be wrongly angled and makes my hairline look pushed back and not form a side parting correctly as you can see in the attached photos. I did point this out to the surgery months ago and they responded by stating that the angle would correct itself once the hairs would mature over time. This has not been the case. Density on my left temple was especially lacking and what is concerning is the fact that last week the hairs in this region suddenly started to shed, with only a few hairs remaining. It now looks like almost bald area. I do hope that it's just a shed. I'm going to wait one more month before I contact the doctor.

Excellent transformation!