What kind of pain to expect? Feeling like I have the flu. Is it still safe to do it?

Everyone will respond differently to surgery and pain. If you have concerns see your doctor for a follow up.  Hair transplant surgery does not feel like the "flu". 

Thank you for your question. During the procedure, you will lay face-down for two to four hours with the back of your scalp anesthetized while individual groups of follicles are extracted. You will take a short beak during harvesting before sitting upright with the front of your scalp anesthetized. The small follicles will be placed into the frontal scalp using small incisions. Once this is over, you'll be able to go home the same day. Our patients tend to experience only two to three short days of recovery. I suggest that you move forward and contact your board certified facial plastic surgeon. 

Best wishes,

Generally most patients have moderate pain for a day or two, then mild for around a week after that. Very rarely has anyone had significant pain that lasted more than a day, and pain isn't what people should feel nervous about with a transplant procedure. If you have a cold tell your doctor. Depending on the severity and their concerns they may want to reschedule, but a minor cold shouldn't be an issue.

Most patients report mild to discomfort with an FUE procedure.  As far the Flu or a cold, I recommend checking with your surgeon.

as long as you are not having a fever/chills, you should be ok to proceed. I would discuss your situation with the surgeon who is performing your procedure. Typically there is little discomfort after FUE procedure, the first night is usually the worst. Patients have described it on a pain scale of 3-4 first night but obviously every one's tolerance to pain is different. The key is take the pain meds on schedule to avoid getting behind on pain control. 

If you are feeling sick with the flu right now and still have 3 days before your procedure my guess is that you will most likely still move forward with the procedure unless you are running a high fever on this day. This will be based on your doctors recommendation on the day of your procedure. As far as pain goes in relation to the FUE hair transplant surgery, pain as well as swelling and downtime are very minimal with this procedure but can also be different levels of pain for different patients. But no matter what should not be any level of intolerable pain from this. 

If you are sick with a fever, then maybe you should call your doctor and reschedule the procedure. There is little pain after an FUE in my experience