U2rock

hi , was the procedure painful?

Overall procedure wasn't that bad but laying on your stomach and not finding comfort position during harvesting session wasn't comfortable. Dr did allow me to stretch my head. Also toward the end of procedure after 10 hours I was getting tired but I told myself its for me and hung in there for the end.

Most of the hair are fallen off. I still have numbness in the frontal area but crown area is back to normal. My original hair are growing at their normal speed. I've attached picture after 1 month of post HT.

Here are pictures from 1 day post HT

Background Info:

I am 36 years old Indian guy living in States from past 20 some years. About 6 years ago I started considering a hair transplant, I had started losing my hair in my mid twenties but I was on meds (one and off). I was Norwood 5 pattern at the time of surgery.

I came to cross this website to see results, suggested doctors and all of the other good info.

I have consulted with few doctors in US along with few of doctors in India.

After extensive research and communication, I decided with go with Dr.Bhatti based from his results, solely dedication to FUE HT and the price. I must've communicated with Dr.Bhatti least 50 times via email. He was very responsive, he also got me in touch with his US based consultant.

HT Discussion with Dr.Bhatti

After few consultations, Dr.Bhatti suggested I probably need between 3000 to 3500 grafts for my desired results and the area.

HT Procedure day

I went to India few days prior to my HT. I drove to Dr.Bhatti's clinic on the morning of HT. Arrived at his clinic at 7:30am. Went through final consultation which was very short. Went to final comments and suggestion such as hairline and number of grafts required. After payment in full, everything started pretty fast.

Shampoo was given by his staff and haircut by Dr.Bhatti. I was taken to OR for harvesting. I lied face down in the operating chair with my head turned to one side and the anesthetic was applied. That part is not fun but certainly tolerable when you keep the end goal in mind, it was also difficult trying to find a comfortable position when lying on your stomach with your head turned to the side. In the end, Dr.Bhatti was able to get 3875 grafts from donor area which was a great result and he said we’d be able to do whatever we want with the hairline or dense other area as well. Harvesting procedure took about little over 3 hrs. Dr.Bhatti's tech's picked the grafts after he made the punches.

After lunch Dr.Bhatti drew in the hairline and temple points and away he went with his implanter (cutter) after more local anesthesia. For this part you are in a much more comfortable normal reclining position watching the movie. After the cuts, Dr.Bhatti's tech's started to implant the grafts. Implanting the grafts took over 6 hours since only 1 tech was working on me. Dr.Bhatti would stopby here and there.

Dr.Bhatti's tech (Parneet) was very helpful and she worked on me with implanting until 8pm. I was tired by this time.

Hotel

Dr.Bhatti's staff made arrangement for my to stay at Gaur Hotel which was very good and good price. I highly recommend to stay there.

Next Day of HT

I came back the following morning for a donor area wash, was given more anti-inflammatory meds and a thorough post-operative discussion with tech's going over my care for the next month.

Note:

I picked the standard package which says 80% of the work will be done by Dr.Bhatti but in opinion it wasn't the case here. I would say Dr.Bhatti spent about 40% with me (only punching and making cuts for grafts). There was another patient for HT on same day but I believe he was in for 2 day procedure.

I never asked for count of grafts nor I was to count for it. I also never to count how many grafts were implanted into crown, temple and forehead area but I do remember verbally tech said they implanted about 1300 grafts into my crown area.

Here were the statistics from the surgery:

Statistics:

Grafts: 3875

Singles: 779

Doubles: 1705

Triples: 1391

I am posting pics which are taken at different stages of my HT journey. Will continue to post on monthly basis.

PS: You are more than welcome to provide your comments.

Currently I am taking

Finasteride 1MG,

1 Biotin and 2%

Rogaine everyday. After 6 weeks of HT, I will change to 5% Rogaine.

Question to community:

I do have access to Avodart (Dutasteride) of .5MG, should I use Avodart instead of Propecia?

Thanks and I saw that information from his website as well.

I have upcoming HT with Dr.Bhatti this month. I'll posting my experience with Dr.Bhatti. I've heard good things about him and hopefully he can live up to my expectations. I will be candid about my experience with Dr.Bhatti and overall experience. I've been searching for the right Dr. for quite sometime and I finally decided with Dr.Bhatti.

Does Dr.Radha perform FUE or her expertise is in FUT?

It will be nice to see your scar line. When you do take your scar picture, please use comb.

Thanks