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@ArchanThank you bruh... Yes am taking 1mg finasteride daily

2 months update (With my preprocedure pic to compare) There were no/little shedding from 1month - 2 month phase.

Day30

Day 23

Thank youu❤️ @Melvin- Moderator

Post Op day 8 Managed to get rid of most of the big scabs after 2nd head wash

Yea..Thank you @ZeeMan @MazAB

Post Op-Day7

PostOP-DAY2 Scabs starts appearing now. I am regularly spraying saline water whenever its becoming dry at an interval about 45-60minutes

Thank you @keratin_matters and @MazAB❤️

@keratin_matters Yes infact he told me that he agreed to procede the surgery only because i am taking finasteride and would continue to take it lifelong

Post Op= Day 1

Attaching the pictures i took after completing my procedure ,when i reached my room

As i said. I have already decided to go as i was not happy with my hairline. Day0 Mr Gaurav message me to reach the clinic at 4pm for preOP procedures. I reached mumbai on that day itself so i went to room to freshen up and then took a cab to the clinic. Its my first time to visit mumbai. So was little nervous as i am not good at hindi(i could somehow managed by my breaking hindi words+signs). When i reached the clinic half of my anxiety were down as the staffs are very warm welcoming and made me comfortable in everyway they can. Then they checked my vitals,BP and local anesthetic sensitivity and then everything was fine and they asked me to come at 12pm the next day Day1 I reached the clinic by time and the staff welcomed me and lead me to the lounge area. After sometime gave me a couple of tablets which included antibiotic,alprax,pantop. Soon after Dr Somesh came and immediately after seeing my hair he asked me whether i need to have HT. He showed the picture that i have sent them and told that look completely different than the original and also the density increased and asked me whether i am taking finasteride. I started it 5 months before and it gave some density in the temple areas. He again asked me "are you sure you wanted to this?". But i actually needed it and decided to procede. I was taken to a room for taking photographs and Dr Somesh drawed a hairline which was just few mm below my natural hairline which was thin infront. It looked more like increasing density of my existing hair. I asked whether we could do something about the temples and he suggested not to touch temples as i may have receding temples in future considering my age. He is the expert and knows better so i agreed. And he suggested non trim option for me as i have long hairs. If i want to get trim we can do it later. I agreed and though it would be a good idea. Soon a guy came and trimed my frontal area and donor area and took pictured again.After that i have been served with a really heavy lunch and then gave me OT scrubs to change and then to the procedure table. Dr somesh gave me local anesthesia. It was painless for me except just 1 or 2 pricks that too very minimal. And he started to make slits and while having conversation with me and everything was going on smooth untill the slits oozing with blood. So Dr somesh asked me whether i had any bleeding disorder or HTN. I didnt had any. So he told that we should have to split the procedure into 2 days( i remembered the case of @NARMAK🥲). So he made the slits and just a few extraction was made by the technicians and implanted it on the side and when the doctor checked the oozing was still going on so he called off the procedure and explained me "if we would procede with this oozing now,the implanted grafts will plop out and its better to do the extraction and implantation tomorrow". And asked me to come at sharp 8am So changed my dress and went back to my room they gave me a saline bottle to spray. I think only less than 100 grafts were implanted that day Day2 I reached the clinic on time. Had to wait sometime as they were preparing. So the procedure started around 8.45. There were many technicians in the room. A lady gave me local anesthesia and the i was asked to lie in prone position and the procedure started i could here some drilling machine sound on the back of my head but couldnt feel anything implanted. But after sometime only they started implanting( i though in DHT one by one is extracted and implanted,but it felt like extraction of many grafts at a time and then implanting. Is it like this?🤔") I asked the techs this concern is this supposed to be done simultaneously,but i didnt understand what they said. Soon i was turned to right lateral position and the procedure was going on. I could hear Dr somesh's voice checking in frequent intervals and instructing the the techs(couldnt see as my eyes were covered). And finally i was made in supine position and i lowered my eye cover and i could see 2 techs implanting on each side and 1 tech transferring the equipment and 2 tech loading the grafts to that equipment. They were so fast and was going like a machine harmonically(There were no extraction in this time. Around 1 hr only implantation was going on so i think my extraction was already done. Is it like that only?). I was anxious about this but couldnt ask because i didnt know hindi( it would be much better if someone is present at the OT to explain the procedure at each steps and to clear doubts). Soon my procedure was over and i was feeling so nervous about the final outcome. Dr Somesh came me and told that they have tried to fill with maximum density and managed to do 1805 grafts in the area. And then clicked some of my pictures and showed me i would say it looked great and i was so relieved. And then showed me a face mirror and it look so clean and perfect. I was taken to the photography room to click postOP pics and then i changed my dress and was taken to the lounge area and a guy came and explained me about the postOP care very detail manner and demonstrated everything and gave me a bag which contained medicines,saline spray,surgical caps,betadine and fuscidin cream for the donor area. I saw Dr Somesh and thanked him and said goodbye. The guys sitting in the reception told me that they would be bothering me for the next 7 days and i have to bear with them😁. And then gave me the invoice and returned the balance money back(as the estimated grafts were 2200 and only 1800 is implanted). I had flight on the same day evening so i was extra vigilant not to bumb my head. Finally reached home safe. I was spraying saline religiously all this time. Also decided not to go out for atleast 10 days. Thank you

@keratin_matters Yes i am. Started 5 months ago