Eugenix 3070 graft | Oct 2022 | NW3 Vertex | Premium package

[V2.Schneider]

I have followed this forum for a while without an account and it guided my choice of clinics towards Eugenix in Gurugram (New Delhi, India) where I had my surgery last week.

Quickly about myself I am 35. I knew I had widow’s peaks but it didn’t actually occur to me that I was balding until I was 28 and I saw a photo someone had taken of my crown and I was alarmed. Immediately I got on medication and in 7 years there has been only minor progression. My dermatologist says I’m a Norwood 3A with some possible retrograde alopecia on my sides.

Treatments I have tried and I think have prevented further loss and enhanced existing follicles:

Oral Dutasteride 0.5mg
Oral Finasteride 2.5mg
Oral Minoxidil 5mg
Topical Minoxidil 7%

Treatments I have tried and I really doubt do anything:

Biotin
Saw palmetto
Ketoconazole shampoo
Lasermax
Skin needling
Lumigan eye drops (Bimatoprost) - incidentally this works amazingly to lengthen my eye-lashes

Eugenix runs a professional operation. Administration staff are all friendly. They ask you to perform certain blood tests to determine your suitability for transplant (full blood count, diabetes screen, hepatitis, HIV, blood clotting factors). They check your blood pressure and pulse the day before surgery, as well as sensitivity testing for local anaesthetics. They extract your blood on the day, centrifuge it and seperate the PRP to inject into your recipient area.

I paid for the premium package where Dr. Bansal designed the hairline and performed the slits. However apart from this I don’t remember her actually being in the surgery room much supervising. So it did occur to me that maybe I could have gone for a cheaper package and had the same result.

The surgery itself was not stressful. They can give you Alprazolam if you are nervous. They let me play my own Spotify playlist over the speakers for 6 hours which was an amazing comfort. The anaesthesia is good, stings a bit going in, but you don’t feel the extraction or implantation, and I just let them know when I felt pain and they injected more lidocaine. Lunch is provided for you.

A lot of people kept walking in and out of the surgery room, taking things from the shelves or talking to the surgery staff. That was a bit weird and chaotic and I don’t think would happen in surgery in my country. Another frustrating thing was there were very few people who introduced themselves so basically I didn’t know who was operating on me or what their role was, technician or surgeon etc

Eugenix provides you with a private car to and from your hotel. The Premium Package includes 2 nights accomodation and they offered The Westin. I chose to stay at the cheaper Hilton which was just as easy to walk to. The after-care team was very good to me. For the next few days I came in and they dressed my wounds. They provide you with antibiotics and anti-inflammatory (my forehead swelled like The Elephant Man). You also have to use a saline spray every hour. Be warned the ABs are quite strong and I think are giving me diarrhoea.

Hope everything goes fine for me. I guess I’ll post an update when I start freaking out about the shedding and shock loss period. But I’m pretty confident Eugenix was the right choice.

Also I’m posting my photos here because I can have control over it, but I requested that Eugenix blur my face on their website.

Beau

 

 

[follically challenged]

5 hours ago, V2.Schneider said:

Lumigan eye drops (Bimatoprost) - incidentally this works amazingly to lengthen my eye-lashes

HT looking great man! Good luck!

And how about the drops? Still on them? I've never heard of these before....

Did the eyelashes STAY long or just initially seem longer...? I'm curious. Thanks!

[Gramatik]

Happy growing man ! Looks clean work. do you know what is the graft distribution? For exmpale how many were transplanted in the hairline and how many in the crown? 

So it seems like techs did the most parts of your procedure and Dr Arrika was not coming to the surgery room to supervise the techs? You were expecting from her to be more involved in your procedure than she actually did?

Edited October 17, 2022 by Gramatik

[BaldReaper]

looks good, how many did you put on the hairline and how many on the crown?

[Bb111]

Work looks good. Good luck to you and happy growing ahead.

[Melvin- Admin]

Looks awesome man, happy growing 🙌🏼

[V2.Schneider]

18 hours ago, follically challenged said:

Did the eyelashes STAY long or just initially seem longer...? I'm curious. Thanks!

If I applied bimatoprost to my eyelashes for 7 days they would grow twice as long. Then after just once every 2 weeks kept them long. In the US this stuff is called Latisse and is sold as a cosmetic. I don't use it anymore as it makes the skin under my eyes really red. I believe some research has been done on treating scalp hair with it. Unfortunately it is extremely expensive as scalp treatment. Some compounding pharmacies have it and can make it up, for example in combination with topical minoxidil and finasteride/dutasteride.

14 hours ago, BaldV said:

looks good, how many did you put on the hairline and how many on the crown?

I'm not sure - does the chart below help to understand? I think initial estimates were 1000 on crown, 2200 on hairline. But I did say I wanted to focus on crown density.

Thanks

[Gatsby]

@V2.Schneider I really like the density they have placed in the crown. You still have natural temple points too. Wishing you all the best and thanks for sharing! 🙏

[V2.Schneider]

 

On 10/17/2022 at 11:36 PM, Gramatik said:

So it seems like techs did the most parts of your procedure and Dr Arrika was not coming to the surgery room to supervise the techs? You were expecting from her to be more involved in your procedure than she actually did?

Yes, the package said procedure 'lead by Dr. Bansal' so I thought more supervision would happen. I'm not even sure crucial extraction was done by her - it's hard to tell with my head down, anaesthetised and nobody explaining things to me.

[general-etwan]

What "lead" has come to mean is design and planning, and instruction of senior technicians, and occasional checking in. What you're really doing is paying for Bansal or Sethi's time to be there for a bit when they could be doing other more important things to them. Good thing the techs at Eugenix are excellent (hand-picked by Sethi and intensely trained, from what I'm told). 

[CesarJones]

thanks