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This one may give @Bandit90a run for his money!

How is the growth going @itisme_alssiri?

How is the progress, @PsSAU?

Hi @JP34567- How is the progress coming?

Hi @quantumhair- just checking in again to see how things are progressing?

I have heard it is best to sleep with a travel pillow following surgery to not 'disturb' the grafts. Will any travel pillow do?

Hi All- Anyone out there have a procedure and had to stop oral minoxidil prior? Calling all those knowledgeable on the subject. I am scheduled for a procedure in about 1 month and the clinic said to stop oral minoxidil 15 days prior as I was planning to stop at least 15 days prior. Since oral minoxidil is relatively new in treatment of AGA, I was wondering if anyone else who had a procedure was told a different timeframe (perhaps a longer timeframe) as to when to stop oral minoxidil prior to their procedure. I want to be safe in that minoxidil is a vasodilator, but also wouldn't want to stop too soon prior which would more likely shed any gains (although modest) that I have achieved while being on the drug. Thanks!

Hi @Karan Chawla- Over time on this forum, I have come across your same question and have saved some of the advice which I included below. Some may be outdated if it relates to traveling during the height of COVID- GOOD LUCK! You are going to an excellent clinic! I'd get a power converter / adapter. I got one and it was a life saver both in the room and also with the many hours and days spent at the clinic. I was working on the trip and could not have dealt without reliable power for both my cellphone and laptop. Bring a very small travel size spray bottle for hydrating the grafts. Something small enough that can go thru airport security. Bring some sweatshirt like, zip up jackets. Clinic can be very cold at times. Don't worry about medical caps, they give you a ton of disposables if you need extra. Otherwise, I think you'll be good. Eugenix for the most part, will take care of everything else you need. Even extra finasteride, which I'd highly recommend getting from them. It's a lot cheaper! have some rupees on hand when you arrive or you can exchange at the airport. If you haven't provided the clinic with all of the blood tests before arriving, you have to pay a clinician to come to Eugenix and do the rest of the tests. About 2000 rupees. Plus you will need a negative PCR test to fly back to Canada. Eugenix will arrange. I was told the cost was about 1000 rupees. - bring a comfortable neck pillow to sleep on for first two to three days. Bring something to wrap around the pillow so that you don't get blood on it during the sleep. There will still be a little bleeding after the surgery, particularly when you lay your end down at night. - no need for converter. The hotel has plugs which will take N American devices. - My phone did work at airport but wifi requires that an SMS verification code be sent to phone and that didn't work. There is a kiosk located just prior to the exit doors after baggage pickup. They can give you a wifi password to use if you are communicating with your Eugenix rep via WhatsApp - - Hotel has complimentary breakfast buffet. Definitely eat a good breakfast each day of surgery since you have to take a few pills prior to surgery and the breakfast keeps the stomach strong with the meds - Make sure that you have the area being worked fully anesthetized. That's an uncomfortable process as they run a needle over a large area to numb the area having surgery. After they apply the anasthesia, have them poke the whole area to see if they missed a spot. That happened to me a couple of times. When they went to extract or implant in an area not fully numbed, it really hurts. The point is to have no pain at all in the area so make sure you communicate with the techs. - at the tail end of my day two surgery, I believe that the number of grafts extracted fell short by the number of slits created by Dr. Bansal. Suddenly, it seemed the techs were rushed to extract the right of grafts and so they had to numb the areas again. The one tech, who didn't do the anesthesia before, was now applying it and missed some spots so when another tech when to extract the grafts with the motorized punch, it was coring into a part of the scalp that was not numbed. I had to stop the surgery and make sure that the entire area was prepared properly before commencing because it hurt like hell! Still hurts in that region of the scalp. - you can bring a couple of smaller bottles to transfer the saline solution in for the return flight. You need to keep the recipient area sprayed every other hour through the day for 7 days. But Dr. Bansal can write a medical note exempting the airline from withholding a large bottle of liquid if it is used for medical purposes. She is giving me a note tomorrow or Thursday so we will see if it gets it past the security checkpoints at the airport. Let me know if you have ?'s

Hmmm...is this real- LOL? Awesome!

Fantastic results!

Thank you!...I am assuming there are transfer limits with the wise card as well?

Thanks @Bb111. I will look into the Wise card.

Nice!!!

Dang man...looking goooooooooooooooooood!

Another question I have is how people generally paid for stuff in India. Someone previously mentioned getting an FX transfer apps, etc...

Correct, however, proof of COVID vaccination is sufficient as I understand it

Great information @Antlor- was there any concern that the food and water from street vendors was safe to consume?

Thanks @DHT @baldbandito and @Bb111- you guys are the reason that this forum is so great! When I checked the air suvidha portal, I didn’t remember seeing a place to upload the vaccine certificate but I will check again. Keep those suggestions coming if anything else comes to mind!

Hi Everyone- In October, I will be traveling from the east coast of the US to Eugenix and I wanted to make sure that I have no issues getting into India. There is a requirement to upload to the Air Suvidha portal, a certificate of covid vaccination. Does anyone know if the photo that I pasted below is what they are referring to? Also, please let me know if there is anything else that I should know which I may be missing, outside of having a valid passport and medical visa. Thanks!!!

Great progress

Stunning, my friend...see you in October!

I would say that things are looking really good! Also, you are only 1/2 way.

Absolutely incredible!

Nice!

Looking splendid Melvin!