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FUE Hair Transplant - How to heal the stabbing pain in the donor area? (Photos)

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I got a FUE hair transplant done 8 days back. Day 3 onwards, once the anesthesia started wearing off I've had a lot of pain in donor area and been consistently taking 2 tablets of Ibuprofen everyday to get through the day. The pain is kind of a shooting and stabbing pain which occurs at any of multiple different points in the donor area. 1) Is my healing okay? Uploading photos of 8th day 2) Will it get better on it's own or I need to do something? Massages have had no major effect.

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