Pauls

15 minutes ago, Craig2412 said:

My clinic instructed 6 months for both sun or sunbed but every clinic post op instructions vary. The only instruction I didn’t follow to the letter was the sun bed. I think I waited between 8 or 12 weeks before having a stand up again but I always wore a bandana with a cap over the top to protect my scalp and had less minutes too. 

Cheers for your reply mate. I guess if your head is fully protected I can’t really see it being a issue. 
dunno where I’ll get a bandana in the UK though !! 😂

Just one other thing if you don’t mind answering for me??? 

How long after my HT is it advised when I can start using a sun bed again (fast tan stand up) 

TIA

Thanks for the replies guys. 👍🏼

Just a little bit of advice please if anyone can enlightened me on a couple of things.
For as long as I can remember I’ve washed my hair twice a day when showering, is this a bad thing or is irrelevant ? 
I’m 1 month post op from 4200 graphs FUE, is there any evidence this could have added to my hair loss over the years and could it affect things moving forward? I’m never going to stop showering twice a day but I could refrain from washing my hair while in the shower, it would be great if anyone could “shed” any light on this.  

Also......

Just a quick question. 
How long after a HT can I start using Minoxidil again? I still feel a little tender and numb on the recipient area as Minoxidil contains alcohol I didn’t want to irritate anything and cause itching etc.    
 

TIA 

Well 1 month has passed and I’m definitely the ugly duckling!
 

I’d go with Dr Cinik doing the incisions for piece of mind if I was you, although the two female and one male technicians who did my procedure were very professional and I also had Dr Cinik do the incisions. 

3 hours ago, Egy said:

It is a clinic on 3 level , when there are, they does 20 patients a day, trust me they does them.

I must of been there on a quiet day then @Egy. 
I know it’s on 3 levels but I wouldn’t call it big, it’s no bigger than a local clinic “ in the uk” 

It’s not a very big hospital and it’s highly unlikely they are doing 20 patients a day. When I was there last month I think 3/4 had the procedure done. 

Yes I’ve head a few of the same things, I’m in the UK and can’t seem to locate Proscar anywhere. If I go back on it and I know I should to help the HT I’ll definitely be every other day maybe starting on .5mg and seeing how it goes. As I said before the sides went for me after been off for about 3/4 weeks. 

7 minutes ago, Melvin-Moderator said:

Wow your crown improved massively.

Yes I was definitely impressed with what Finasteride did for my donor area but I really don’t think it did nothing for the recipient. I think I was too far gone. 

I was on it from the 1st of Jan up until the beginning of July then had the HT a couple of weeks later. I found after being on it a couple of months that I was a little snappy with people and found to be a bit moody, things would get to me more than they should. I also found my sex drive had dropped and erections were nothing like they use to be. I don’t think I realised until lately now I’ve been off Fin for a month and I feel much better in myself. I was on 1mg per day using generic Finasteride and after my recent research I’ve found apparently you don’t need so much. I’m on the fence about going back on it and if I do it will be every other day using .5mg and see how I go, I’ve also heard people advise to use branded instead of generic. 

DJ 

I was told my donor was not the best and would probably have to use beard and chest,  so then I did 7 months on Finasteride 1mg per day and saw a massive improvement,  although I didn’t see a dramatic change on top. 

photos below 1st taken in Nov 19 , 2nd taken May 20.

Fantastic results mate. 

23 minutes ago, JohnAC71 said:

Have you tried simple online pharmacy? 

You can get generic Finasteride and propica through them but not proscar. 

27 minutes ago, Rolandas said:

I Think Farjo institute is in Manchester. While I won't recommend them for HT, you can book appointment with the doctor and ask for prescription. I'm almost sure they would charge you for consultation, but at least you will have prescription for it.

Haha. Cheers mate. I might just give that a try..... I went for a free consultation almost a year ago and got quoted almost 8k for 2500 graphs. I know they sell generic Finasteride at 40 quid a month as they tried to sell it to me. Dunno how it would work having just had a HT in the past few weeks and it’s pretty obvious too. 

On 6/12/2020 at 11:35 PM, Rolandas said:

If you feel it's too expensive ask any HT doctor for a Proscar prescription and cut those into 4 or 5 pieces. This will be 4-5 times cheaper than propecia and still comes from the same manufacturer.

Who do you ask though mate if you had your HT in Turkey? I’ve been to my doctors to try and get a prescription for 5mg proscar from pharmacy2u and he wouldn’t as he said it was cosmetic and he didn’t know enough about it. I’m based in Manchester UK , tried everything. Been on generic Finasteride for 6 months but getting sides so wanted to try proscar 1.25 every other day. I did find one online supplier but he wanted 95 quid for a pkt of 28!! 

2 hours ago, Runandy said:

We can agree to disagree and that’s totally fine! Turkey probably has the most botched hair transplants out of any location, but it’s my opinion that there are a few great clinics that consistently do a great job. I also think that Turkey can provide an avenue for those who are not wealthy to get a great transplant at a lower cost provided they do their research. There’s many guys out there that would much rather put a down payment on a house or car or emergency fund then to spend all that cash on a hair transplant. I was able to afford a down payment on a house due to going to Turkey and I’m so glad I did. It would be a great for this forum to consider the great clinics that are there rather then to cast them all aside but that’s just my opinion

Completely agree. We all want the best things in life but you can only afford what you can afford. If it wasn’t for Turkey working class guys with a young family would never get the chance to get a HT. 

22 minutes ago, giegnosiganoe said:

You have an awful GP,  sorry to say... Either try to educate him on it, find a new GP, or look for an online service (like Keeps, Roman, or Hims in the USA).

Yes just what I thought, the practice probably couldn’t be arsed helping me with all the COVID going’s on. I explained I’d just had a Hair Transplant and It was something I needed. I’d done 6 months on generic Finasteride but suffered with a few sides as I explained to him. The reason I wanted to try Proscar was to try eliminate the sides but obviously he doesn’t care enough to help me. 

Does anyone know where you can purchase Proscar in the UK? I found pharmacy2u stock it but you need a prescription. I contacted my GP and he said as it’s cosmetic we can’t give you a prescription because we don’t know much about it. 
can anyone help? 

43 minutes ago, Foobar said:

Was this FUE? 1 session?

Yes pal, just the one long day. 

31 minutes ago, Foobar said:

I am still waiting on these botched overharvested stories from Cinik or Demirsoy. Where are they?

I’m more than happy so far mate but yet I’ve got a long way to go.

10 days post procedure and most of the scabs are off now.

You can’t fault that mate. Looks bang on !! 👍🏼

As I said before you know a hell of a lot more than I do about HT and ok fair play to you with your results as you promote but I can understand a few of us getting the hump a little when you seem to slate a clinic “we’ve” visited and experienced. 

1 hour ago, Portugal25 said:

Like @Gasthoerer said the "best clinics" don’t have botched results with poor donor management, mis-angled grafts, multis in the first row and unnatural hairline design but hairmills like Cinik have them as you can see on the links below: 

https://www.baldtruthtalk.com/threads/29839-Horrible-experience-Hair-transplant-disaster-Dr.-Emrah-Cinik-Turkey

https://www.sacekimisonuclari.com/index.php?topic=9450.75

@Pauls I do have friends that can’t afford going to good Doctor in Turkey or anywhere else but I know better than to recommend them a tech run surgery at Cinik or any other Turkish hairmill so for those looking for a budget option I always give out the contact of the nurses Esma and Serkan Tetik because they have dozens of great results at the Turkish forum and are doing DHI for 1500€ all inclusive (better going to nurses with good real patients results than technicians at a hairmill). 

@Kruchie I don’t have nothing against people paying a fraction of the price I paid to have a great Doctor fully devoted to me for 3 days but I will never in good conscience recommend tech run surgeries in Turkey. 
I also went to Turkey but I went to a well known Turkish Doctor that is well aware of how Cinik can afford to advertise at the soccer match of the UK Premier League and I can tell you that it’s not from being fully devoted to assuring great results to the dozens of patients that come to his hairmill every day. 

I can only go on things I’ve read on here. I’ve seen some fantastic results from Dr Cinik hence why I chose his as you call      “Turkish hairmill”. Now you’ve probably forgotten more than I know about HT but I can only go on what I know are real reviews, Dr Cinik has had dozens of fantastic results as you’ve probably seen for yourself but you seem to have this hatred for his clinic or is it to put people off so you can promote the same names you always seem to come up with on your posts.