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here you go, Stoner.

Hi, thanks! Yes I take Fin 1.25mg and Min (topical foam) plus a multivitamin daily.

Sorry to have left it so long between updates, I just passed the 10 month mark and happy to say things have only gotten better. Now my only problem is that a lot of people are straight up asking me if I've had a hair transplant. I take it as a compliment that I've had such a transformation. The only negative is the temple points, it doesn't look like anything came through there on either side. and the areas over and around my ears are very thin. It's not the end of the world but I just leave it here for the purposes of a full review.

Hi, I hadn't realised I'd left it so long to lost an update. I'll put some photos up now. I had the same last minute doubts but I can assure you that Dr Das and her team are excellent.

Fin and topical Min,

Things are really starting to take shape. I've let it all grow since the last update. Another month and I think I can hit up a barber to tidy it all up. It still looks pretty thin from directly on top but very few will see it from that angle. Day to day I'm very happy, even venturing out without a hat for the first time in a very long time.

4 months in now and the shedding has stopped and I think growth is starting. Finally! I started back on minox foam again after month 3 but there was no change in haoir from month 2 so i didn't bother updating. I'm keeping it buzzed to a 1 blade for another while and hopefully will have enough new growth to grow it out by the end of the summer.

Two months in now, hopefully the shedding has stopped, it seems to have slowed at least. Donor is looking pretty good although I do get some nasty spots popping up every few days. Regrowth can't come soon enough!

thanks Rafael, yeah i'm hoping to keep taking the photos under the same outdoor light in the same spot. Hopefully get a good comparison month on month.

Hi all, one month update! So far I'm delighted with the results. The dreaded shed started about a week ago and seems to be going at a fairly constant pace, each time I run my hand across my head I'll find one or two treacherous hairs and I'm sure many more are abandoning ship in the shower. Numbness has retreated to just a small section in my mid scalp and the itching in the donor is calming down but not gone yet.

thanks, yours looks great too! I did have some work done in the crown, I don't have the exact breakdown though. Great to see someone going through the same stages as myself. best of luck!

thanks, yeah very happy with it so far.

Hi all, I'm just a week after my procedure at Eugenix and would like to share my experience and hopefully document my progress for the next few months here. Firstly, thanks to the members here who answered my previous questions and calmed my nerves before I headed off to India, In particular to Zoomster, we had a great chat and he really put me at ease. I flew into Dehli on the 12th, picked up at the airport by the hotel and was in my room not an hour later. Very seamless. I stayed at the Courtyard by Marriott, I think most patients stay closer to the clinic at the Hilton, I certainly didn't see any others while I was there. The room itself was ok, not great but clean, however the food served in the hotel restaurant was exceptional. On the 13th I had my consultation. I'd wrongly thought this was going to be with the doctor going over the procedure, design etc but it was simply blood pressure and testing for allergies to the anesthetic. I did get a lovely cup of tea though before me and my notebook full of questions and photos of my previous hair were whisked back to the hotel. I was driven to the clinic on the 14th just after noon, another cup of tea, BP checked and given pre op meds. Then I had my consult with Dr Priyadarshini Das, she's as wonderful as everyone claims and has a great sense of humour. We went over the design, made a few tweaks and then photos were taken. Then it was time for the head shave and wash before getting into the surgical chair. The nurse administering the anesthetic was very attentive and there was very little discomfort. I also had blood taken at this point for PRP which was a bit of a surprise as I hadn't known it was going to be part of the procedure. Bonus PRP, I wasn't complaining! Dr Das then started making the slits which took about 2 hours with a few small breaks because I was oozing a bit much. After lunch I returned to the surgery where the technicians were already set up and waiting. One regret I have is not being introduced to them seeing as they would be working on me solidly over this day and the next. From memory there was one senior tech and maybe five junior although the numbers fluctuated. I'm only going on the colour of scrubs they wore so may be mistaken with senior techs in blue and the rest in burgundy scrubs. For the next two hours they extracted and implanted just over a thousand grafts before we finished up for the evening. Dr Das checked in approximately every 20 - 30 min and this continued throughout the second day also. The 15th was the big day, I was picked up early, a swift cup of tea and back in the chair by 9:30 am. The technicians went through numerous rounds of extraction and implantation, the nurse worked wonders with the anesthetic and there was never any pain or discomfort. The entire time I was in the chair I had my eyes covered with gauze, I'm guessing there was a surgical reason for this but it did mean I couldn't really keep track of who was doing what and I'm fairly certain I fell asleep more than once. Dr Das continued checking up on my progress throughout the day as did one or two other doctors I didn't recognise. One I did recognize was Dr Sethi who popped in for a brief chat. It was a long day, sometime about 6pm Dr Das came back to check on the final look and after a brief chat with the senior tech told me she was thinking they could get a little more density. I was happy to go ahead of course so more slits were made and I went back for my final round of extractions and implantation. We finished up around 8pm, 4254 grafts in total. We took some final photos, had a post op consultation and I was back at my hotel about 9pm where despite having been lying down all day I propped myself on some puppy pad protected pillows and slept for 12 hours straight. My recovery has been far easier and quicker than I was expecting, my donor site inflammation died down within about a day leaving only tiny red scabs at each extraction point. I didn't have a huge amount of bleeding or scabbing on my recipient site either, it mostly looked bruised under the skin. There was some swelling liquid in my forehead but I was careful to avoid looking down and it was entirely gone by the third day post surgery. I followed instructions and had a very light head wash on the 7th day. The Post Op team were in contact with me daily both by mail and phone but there haven't been any complications. I did travel home too early in retrospect, leaving very early in the morning of the second day after surgery. This combined with the fact that I'd had my temples done meant that I couldn't wear a hat through the airport or on the plane and had to wear a surgical cap all the way home instead. If you're in any way self conscious stay longer and avoid this. People will point and stare. It was deeply unpleasant. I waited a week to write my review so as to have time to properly reflect on the experience without being overly swayed by the adrenaline and endorphins post surgery. I'm still excited by my results so far, the design and density look good. Let me be clear I'm very happy but on reflection there is something that still bothers me and that is how little pre consultation there was. There'd been photos exchanged but aside from that the first time I met the doctor was when I was already in scrubs having taken my pre op meds including anti anxiety medication. I don't think I should have arrived at that point based solely on trust and reviews here and on reddit. There were a lot of questions I forgot ask. As has been mentioned many times on these forums, this clinic is very efficient, once you're in the system you're carried non stop through the the whole thing. Unfortunately the side effect of this is a diminished sense of agency in the whole process. Ok that's my (hopefully constructive) criticism over, I got a great start, exactly what I wanted and more. some photos below: Before: After Surgery: One week later:

thanks for that, I wasn't sure if it was cool to be contacting people directly. Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to send PMs, could be because it's such a new account?

thanks a mill, I'll shoot you a PM. have to say your amazing results are a large part of why I chose this clinic.

thanks for the speedy reply! this is exactly the sort of information I was looking for.

Ok I finally made an account . I'm off to the travel agents later today to hopefully book my flights from Dublin to Delhi for a transplant at Eugenix in mid March and, as is seemingly common, my feet, they are feeling the chill. A bit of background. I'm in my early 40's. I started noticing thinning hair in my early 30's, tried Rogaine 5% and later was on 1.25mg fin once a day. I had some pretty good results. But as with many things in life I got complacent, buzzcut my hair on a whim and decided that that was good enough for me and stopped the meds. This was about 6 months before Covid. Fast forward to about this time last year and I see a photo of myself from behind and feck, I just look bald. So back on fin nearly 9 months now and decided that a HT might give me back enough hair to frame my face and style in a way that might better express my personality. My ideal being that when someone sees me their first impression isn't 'bald man'. Much research online, here and reddit mostly, convinced me to blow my original budget and now I have a quote and provisional dates for Dr. Das at Eugenix for 4200 grafts. I'm not wealthy, aside from my home, this will be the single biggest outlay of money in my entire life and constitutes my entire savings. I could use some reassurance. I'd love to hear from anyone on here who's been how you got on. I'm fairly confident in their transplant results it's all the surrounding things that I'm unsure about. Like what Visa did you go for, tourist or medical? How did payment go did you wire or use credit card on the day? What are the hotels like when you're not on the top packages? Did you stay on for the 7th day head wash and was that worth it? Where did you eat? I can't imagine I'll be leaving my hotel room much but if you did how did you get on, would you be in a position to do any tourist activities? If I stay for the head wash I'll be working remotely from there, you think there'd be any issue with that?. For those interested here are my photos I would have submitted for quotes to the various clinics just after Christmas. I'd grown my hair out for 2 months just to see where I was at, I normally rock a 0.5 / 1 blade all over.