Sethticles

@harin... hahaha true very true..

hey mate... i was in the same boat as you, australian price for what i needed was going to be around 25k AUD, so i started looking at bangkok, being that i had lived there for a couple of years and the main HHH clinic was in the same building I used to work in Asoke I started saving my money, was going to be around 12k, then I discovered Dr Bhatti's clinic in India, i got the whole thing done and more for about 6k... he has great reviews have a look mate... any questions just PM happy to help out. and if you go to bangkok i know plenty of good hotels near Asoke building too.

do you mean the transplanted hair from the first hair transplant is shedding or the native hair or both? Anyway best of luck mate ,but as I said after 3-4 months I'm sure you will start to be a happy man again

yeah a bit of both - as Homer would say, a little from column A and little from column B,

@HTsoon, thanks for the kind words mate. a fair bit of my confidence has gone with the hair too. I have a 5 day holiday lined up for Koh Samui over New Years and im thinking of just shaving my head and living under a cap, as for the whole shockloss sage, from what i have been reading that massive shockloss seems to be more common with guys having their 2nd HT and who have large amounts of existing hair, and 9 times out of 10 it all grows back nicely.

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i used to use these, i felt it worked, ive just bought 120caps more

Hey guys - 6 weeks post op progress - I'd love to say that all things are going well but sadly I had a massive case of shock loss weeks 3ish, a fair bit of my existing hairs have fallen out, can't say i feel good at the present time, the UGLY DUCKLING phase is upon me, lucky for me this is well documented within the HT network, and I can wear caps to work and around the office, I am quite sure it will all settle down and new cycles will begin to grown. Im back now using fine 1mg + 5% as appose to 2% and several other natural treatments, please God grow back i have a few more months of "WHAT IF" ahead of me... im dying to get some toppik even if for one night out on the town without a cap on.....

signed feeling like shiticles not sethticles

I was looking at MSM yesterday, can anyone recommend a brand please

Thank you Sethticles, Harin, Starscream, David and Dr Bhatti for the kind words. Its very much appreciated.

 

Anyway as stated before I'm planning not to do another HT next year, having a break from thinking about after another HT procedure...lol.

 

You are very welcome buddy and I don't blame you for not rushing in getting another HT, its long way to go and long wait to see results and its a long recovery process all that is very taxing on the mind body and spirit. please stay in contact though... cheers mate

Overall I've found sleep to be tricky as you're constantly worried about rolling over/damaging grafts

yeah its a bit of a stress, if you've never had a HT use a travel pillow and I also found wedging a pillow under my chin helps, the first night is the worse Dr Bhatti wants you to apply saline water every 20mins, making sleep almost impossible, lucky the hotel had a great movie channel

@biolizard - feel free to PM and have a spak attack get things off your chest, happy to lend an ear too - just remember only a few more weeks and the worse will be behind you, its a long long journey and i am confident you have made the correct decision... spak attacks will soon stop

Great work Nathan Dr Bhatti loves aussies!!

anything before 6 months is the ugly duckling period, which includes the healing process, many of us look worse than before but eventually it comes good. the waiting game is probably the hardest part of a HT, so many mixed thoughts run through our brain, we all hate this period

he has the stevie gerrard hair line now..... lucky bastard

Without a solid patient/doctor relationship established from the initial counceling it can be difficult to establish a proper degree of trust.

I trust you Dr Bhatti

CBantoy - try 2% minox for about 6 weeks then move to 5% - probably wont get much shedding if any

@ esrec - but i miss debating with Alan where is he

Remove the grafts, FUE in to the strip scar, shave your head and be done with it dude.

I second that..... all the best mate hang in there

The zero scarring narrative is a dangerous one that should be avoided. It's not accurate. Happy for everyone that achieves great yield + minimal if not extremely minimal scarring with FUE,.

well for what ever reason I'm one of the lucky ones, I think a combination of Dr Bhatti's skills, a well planned out approach, not over doing a mega session and that I have fair skin which helps hide any scarring might help shine light on to the matter. Dr Bhatti does a lot of Indians that have dark skin and I am yet to see any bad scarring.

hey mate, overall its a great result - i know how gutted you must be feeling with sides although you can hardly tell especially to the untrained eye. i personally would wait another year or so you might find after a few more months you just forget about it as it looks pretty good. all the best seth

When I had my hair transplant with Dr. Bhatti, the techs asked if it was OK with me if they listed to music. In my opinion, if that keeps them happy while working I see no problem with it.

the first time I went there they just played music and it was rather loud, I actually said something to Dr Bhatti the following day, but this time they asked and I said as long as its on low which they did not that mattered we had the earthquake - LOL

essentially a great FUE surgeon is superior to FUT because of the ZERO scarring, thus choose your surgeon wisely

Once again newbie dead on, I would like to just add that no surgery is scarless, while we all strive for the best scarring+yield it is simply not possible with FUE due to the sub dermal scarring that occurs and the insurmountable amount of trauma to the grafts, unfortunately there is no "cake and eat it too" procedure, FUE provides 0.00000006% growth rate in comparison to 150% growth rate for FUT. So in essence 1,000 grafts implanted via FUT will yield a 4,000 graft result, compared to 7,000 grafts via FUE that will yield -700 graft results. I thoroughly enjoy your participation in these discussions. Please be sure to check out feller and bloxhams website:)

yes quite true although you're missing adjunct

choose your clinic wisely and you'll be a happy chappy with NO SCAR and with a great survival rate

I wish i had stayed an extra 24 hours but it didnt change a thing, other than create a heightened sense of "i must take extra extra care" and if I had waited an extra day I could have taken the bandages off before flying, there really isn't much swelling your face aint going to look like the elephant man or anything, you just have to be effin careful with everything, especially on planes, get a window seat, web check in early to lock the best out of the way seat you can find. the healing time is 2 weeks and scabbing can last a few days longer and during that time again you must be effin careful - just make sure you pack a really good travel pillow and some decent baseball cap, ideally a trucka cap that can sit lightly and low and not touch any grafts, trucka caps are adjustable and made from very light materials i wouldnt wear something that was a fitted cap it needs to be adjustable but lets you travel incognito. I do worry a bit for you going all the way to Turkey with all the transfers, as you will need to make sure your head is nicely keep wet, so take a spray bottle and duck off to the plane toilets every 2 hours, probably best to not wear the cap on the plane for that amount of time too, PM if you want some more info mate,,

no more than 30mins, probably was only 10mins hard to know happened all so fast, but was the feeling of the unknown, what could happen next, will there be an after shock, the staff were probably more scared than me, as it was my second big earthquake in a year and the other one was far more violent