Hello guys,
First of all I want to kudos to you guys for your immense help in updating your stories, providing knowledge to us about hair transplant.
Background:
I am 25, just started working was facing hair loss from around 5 years back. I devastated and always felt inferior in front of my fellow friends. I was very outgoing and social but as most of you have known , Hair loss kills all of that. I have MPB, since one of my maternal uncle is bald, also my dad is receeding.
Plus, I have a big forehead, which further makes it look more bad. But I guess since I am taking fins and applying min to my hair since long, I have only receeded in my hairline and not on the crown or centre.
I started researching about hair transplants and finally zeroed down to Dr.Bhatti. I believe he is the best surgeon in India and his efficiency is maximum in terms of results Medications: currently I am currently taking finasteride 1mg and minoxidil for around 5 years.
Before and on the day of surgery:
I exchanged some good amount of mails with Dr.Bhatti and we came to my hairline design and decided date of the procedure. I was all geared up, between my office times, I used to research more and more of HT's. My browsing time of Stack overflow and social networks changed completely to HRN forum. There was just one thing in my browsing history, which was hair.
His representatives "California and Shera" were very very helpful, like even reply at times when you expect least. They have a great deal of knowledge being HT patients themselves and they would clear every minute of your doubts that too multiple times. That includes pre and post op queries.
Anyways here comes the big day, I got up got ready took a shower, Dr,Bhatti's driver came to pick me up and went to the clinic. I changed into their clothes and Dr.Bhatti drew the final hairline, we agreed on that and he shaved my head.
Then the process of harvesting started. I had some pain when the anesthesia was being given locally to me, but apart from that there was not much pain. Dr.Bhatti did the harvesting and his staff counted the grafts. He came in again and then reharvested the grafts. upon the final count, he assessed that to attain maximum density even 2000 was not enough for that area, so he harvested 135 more grafts and the final count of grafts reached 2135.
After that he went away, I had lunch (they would ask you to preorder a pizza from pizza hut). Then after that planting process started, where three technicians were planting the grafts, one was providing and two were planting. They were friendly as such, but until a point as I guess I started asking too many questions
Dr.Bhatti was walking in to check on the progress sometimes.
I stayed the next two days and now I am back in Boston, with a week to the surgery.
Graft count : 2135
Triples : around 700
Doubles : around 1100
Singles : around 400
Since the members here are so senior and experienced, can you please comment on my procedure and what you all think.
Thank you