My temple areas and my thining hairline was the problem. I begun searching for a HT in tuerkey one year ago. I decided to contac Dr. Balwi in Istanbul. It was always a friendly Communication between his Office, mr. Serdar Öztürk and me. So on 23.12.2016 I had my HT in one of the best and new clinics in Istanbul. Updated on 16 Jan 2017: My english is not the best, so i'll not write a long or detailed story about my journey. For everyone in this community who is looking for a HT - don't wait, don't worry about the procedure. Of course it,s a new expirience but in year 2016/2017 it's not a problem anymore to get trough a beauty surgery as a male. I think it's nearly quit normal if you're fighting a littlebit against your age :-) Updated on 16 Jan 2017: Ok, now just a littlebit about my trip. I booked 2500 grafts at doctor Balwi. It's including the complete surgery, after care produkts, 2 nights in a brand new hotel with breakfast and they are picking you up from the airport and also bringing you back. Further they've got a shuttle taxi for the way clinic to hotel or hotel to clinic. Further I booked a flight with turkish airlines. ... total costs : 2000 Euro. Here are some pics of the hotel and the clinic in Istanbul/Esenyurt Updated on 17 Jan 2017: When I arrived in Istanbul they brought me to the clinic to do a bloed test. That took about 5 min. After that i had my check-in at the hotel. The next morning they picked me at 8:30 am up. In the clinic I first had a consultation with Doctor Balwi. He was friendly and answered all my questions. Very important for me was, that also a friendly woman spoke german - so she translated everything ! After drawing my hairline that is exaktly as my old natural hairline, the procedure begun. Guys, don't worry about the injections ! That was the most thing I worried about. But it's no problem at all - just be relaxed ! Then they took 2500 grafts, and without a break they open the slits in the front. After putting in half of the grafts i took lunch for 10 minutes. After approximately 5,5 hours the procedure was finished. At this time my bloedpressure wasn't fine at all. So I decided to lay down on a sofa for half an hour. They gave me ayran with salt and I quickly got better. Doctor Balwi had a look of the work and said that everything is fine. After that they brought me to the hotel. The strange thing is, that i had no really pain at the donor and the recipient area but a very big and bad headache. So I decided to take a high dosis of pain killers, tried to sleep a few a hours. That's the best you can do, cause after 4 hours I woke up and felt already much better, went downstairs to the restaurant - I was sooo hungry ! Updated on 17 Jan 2017: The next morning they removed the bandage, told me how to use the products. Yes, that's all ! At 12 am they brought me to the airport and i took my flight home with an very special hat on my head :-) . Updated on 17 Jan 2017: Sorry, i couldn't post some pics from the hotel. So I'll try it again and hope the system will work ! ................................................................................................ Updated on 20 Jan 2017: Aftercare products given from the clinic, also antibiotics for 1 week. H2 Ocean and luvus cream helped me to solve the redness in the donor area. H2 o and luvus are not given by the clinic !!! I would recommend them !!! ......................... Updated on 21 Jan 2017: Day 3 ..... ......... healing well ...................................................................................................................................................................... Updated on 21 Jan 2017: After 1 Week ..................……............................................................................................................................................................................. Updated on 21 Jan 2017: Day 10 - all crusts are gone ............................................................................................................................................................................ Updated on 21 Jan 2017: Week 3 ................................................................................................................................................................................................. Updated on 21 Jan 2017: 3,5 weeks ..... after first haircut ....... it's time to start with work again. No, it's not my favorite haircut but it's better than beeing completely bald after a hairtransplant. No one at work noticed that I had a hairtransplant. Believe - really no one !!!! My donor area is healing well, and the front is even healing fine. Not really much of the new hair is gone. But it's no problem at all if they will .... it belongs to the progress and new hair will hopefully begin to grow in 2 or three month. I won't update every few days 'cause I 've got a lot to do at work. Updated on 23 Mar 2017: Now I'm nearly the 3 month mark. Yes, it's day by day harder - the time without new hair is killing me. I hope hair will grow very very soon. There are still a lot of short hairs in the recipient area. I guess that i didnt had a bad Shock loss ! Some of the nativ hair are back but the horror is that i'm still in a bad shedding phase. It startet at week 8. They say that it is a normal thing that nativ hair can fall out entire the scalp After a hairtransplant. They call it telogen effluvium and can last for a few month before that hair is growing back. The stress of the surgery can trigger it. My donor area is growing nicely and there is still no redness anymore. I hope that i've got enough grafts for maybe a Second HT. Further i notice that i've got more grey hair than before. But it seems that this is a phenomen after ht, and still nobody knows why it can happen. But thats no Problem at all for me cause i'm not at the age of 20 anymore. Hoping the shedding will stop soon and all of the lost hair will grow back. Some say the transplantet hair begins to grow at 3 month mark or later at month 4. We'll see what will happen. At this point i'm not really happy - Time will tell! Updated on 24 Apr 2017: A littlebit hair is growing, this are good news. But my nativ hair is still shedding than normal. Hoping it will stop soon and my old hair will grow back. I'm still taking the drug finasterid. They say with that nativ hair will grow back. Still there is a long time to wait. Updated on 8 Jun 2017: Hello, here we are in month 5 .....
