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Thank you. Its day 5 post op and i still have swelling in my face and eyes. If you send me a personal message, I will answer that for you otherwise you will be looking in the range of 6-7 dollars per graft depending on how many you decide to go with.

The swelling is still there but I can feel that its slowly subsiding. I have slight bruising around my eyes also. I am not taking anything for the swelling except for icing around the clock. But the good thing is I am in no pain. I feel some tightness around the base of my neck but I think its due to the swelling around my eyes and cheeks. I feel also that the donor sights are healing well without any infection. I am still on antibiotics 1 pill, 3 times a day, and apply ointment to the donor area 3x a day keeping it clean.

Sorry... Its the picture... I am essentially taking selfies so its a little difficult. I am happy with the hairline and symmetry of it. I will try to take better pictures today for my 4th day post op pictures.

Here are pictures of my day 1 Post Op after shampoo at Dr. Diep's Office. Dr. Diep was able to do an extra 500 grafts of which he placed on my crown. It was unexpected but a great surprise. I am in no pain. My right eye started to swell though. Sleeping is a bit uncomfortable due to the fact that I have to sleep at a 45 degree angle and I am so used to sleeping on my side and not my back. Otherwise everything is good! Edit - My hairline looks uneven in this picture but I its the angle of the selfie that I took. Take a look at my Day 4 post op pictures. I think its a better angle.

Sorry everyone. I have been resting for the past 4 days. Here are my Pre Op Pictures.... As stated in my original post, the plan was to do 2500 grafts FUE. We were going to do the front and leave the crown for another time.

Thanks Bud!

My apologies to the OP. HIs price range for FUE is correct. Between 6-7 dollars per graft.

I forgot to mention that I had ACELL shots too.

Hello Everyone, I am a long time lurker and first time poster.... I first wanted to thank everyone who posts on this forum as I found it extremely helpful in my decision to go with what procedure and which Dr. I had my procedure yesterday and would like to take this opporutnity to chronical my journey to a full head of hair. Race: Asian Age: 37 Losing Hair Since early 20's Norwood Scale: 4-5 Procedure Method: FUE Follical Number: 2500 Physcian: Dr. John Diep My Back Ground Since 21, I have been slowly losing my hair but though nothing of it. I was so stubborn at that age that I didn't think of the future. I wish I started rogain as soon as I started to lose my hair. At around the again of 27, I started to use rogain to slow the process. It was working ok, but with the added stress of work in my life, I left like the hair loss process just accellerated. Anyways, I started to find different ways of doing my hair, started using Toppik to cover the less dense spots. Toppik works great but the dark particles get everywhere so that was annoying. Finally at the again of 37, I had enough funds for the procedure and through research on this sight I decided to go through with the procedure... Day of my procedure: I woke up around 5 am that morning and had breakfast. I was told to have breakfast because I was not going to have lunch until 12-1 pm, plus they gave me some pain meds, anti anflamtory meds, and valium. My driver from Dr. Dieps office arrived at my home around 6:15 (complimentary) and drove me to the office (~60 Miles away). He got me to the Los Gatos facitliy at 7:15. I filled out some paperwork and then went in to see Dr. Diep. We sat down and he went through what the procedure entails. WIth that being said, we also started to design my hair line. We decided on a hair line and off we went into the procedure room. I had 4 nurses and Dr. Diep attending to my procedure. I changed in to my scrubs and continued to sit down into the chair. By this time, the valium was kicking in and I was super drowsy. I have never taken it before so I guess it was working very well. With that being said, I dont remember when I fell asleep and I dont remmber Dr. Diep saving my head. With that being said I awoke feeling this punching pressure behind my head. It was Dr Diep using his tool to remove the hair follicals. I dont exactly remember how long this lasted but I would say a SOLID 5-6 hrs just extracting the follicals. To my disappointment, Dr, Diep stated that he was only able to extrac~2000 follicals. I was a bit dissappoint to say the least but at this point , I really had not choice but to deal with this. With that being said, the 4 nurses were under a hood preparing my follicals for insertion. In parallel, Dr. Diep start to design my hairline and slots where the hair follicals will live. Once the follicals were ready for insertion, I had 2-3 nurses working on inserting. They were great to work with, very nice and ensured that I was comfortable. Looking at the clock, 1 hr pasted, 2, hrs, pasted, 3, hrs past.... They started to put insert the hair follicals at around 4 and didn't finish until ~9. To my surprise, Dr. Diep had to come in serveral times because the nurses had started they had hair follicals left and all the holes were taken up. At the end, Dr. Diep stated that he did well over 3000 follicals for me, of which I was sooo excited to hear! He was able to do the front and the rest on my dome. So overall my experience at the office was please. Dr Diep was great, and the nurses were great! One thing I do have to mention, and at no fault of Dr. Diep or his office, my ride home was terrible. And not because of the driver, but because I get severe motion sickness and I was sitting in the back for 60 miles. That was the worst part of my day! I will be posting pictures along the way of my progress. I did not take pictures before my surgery but I know Dr. Diep did so I will ask him for those photos and will post. Stay tuned and please if you have any questons or concerns, do not hesistate to ask!

I just had my procedure yesterday with Dr. Diep of which I will be chronically in a new thread. Just to answer some of the concerns that members have, I went in for a consult early January and he was very nice. Was certainly not a sales man and I feel like he was genuine in a sense that he wants all of his paitents to be happy and looking great. With that being said, I also obted for the 2500 graft FUE. The price per graft is not as high as the OP states. Depending on how many you want, the price may vary but certainly not 5-6 dollars per graft. WIth that being said, he stated that i needed aourn 4000 grafts to have great results but I did not want the strip method so we went for 2500 to cover the front. He was booked 5 months out as my scheduled surgery was in May. I did mention to the nurse to call me if there were any cancellations. About 2 weeks later, to my surprise I got a call that there was a cancellation so i took the opportunity....... Please visit my thread as I do not want to high jack the OP's thread.