27 Male. - Turkey, TR

Hi all. Been looking into getting an fue hair transplant for a couple of years now. My hairlines been slowly receding since I was about 21 and I've been doing my upmost to cover this up with various hairstyles.

A lot of people will probably look at my photos and think I don't need a procedure but as most of you know, losing your hair sucks! I've seen many people have successful enough results for little expense so it's something I'm willing to try.

Decided to bite the bullet and go with Dr Acar at cosimedica, he seems to think between 1500 - 2000 grafts should be enough to fill my receding temples and lower my hairline slightly.

I fly tomorrow from London and land in instanbul at 5.30pm. A driver picks me up from the airport and takes me to the hotel. I had the choice of 2 hotels and I chose Gorrion hotel Istanbul which looks nice and has decent reviews on trip advisor. I am told I will be picked up from the hotel at 7.30am Friday and taken to the hospital for consultation followed by blood tests and then my transplant.

I have chose to keep my hair for the transplant and only have donor area shaved as I'd like to keep this as confidential as possible.

Slightly nervous now like Im sure most of you were 1 day before procedure. Will try and give you an update tomorrow or whenever is possible.

Thanks

Hi all, arrived in Istanbul this afternoon. After going through passport control and collecting my bags i walked to the transfer office in the airport, told them I was here for dr acar and needed a transfer to the Gorrion hotel and everything went smoothly.
Some slight confusion with the driver when he took us to tempo suites hotel rather than Gorrion. Tempo suites was the other hotel offered to me to stay at but I chose Gorrion.
After the confusion, which was mainly down to the driver not talking English and me thinking he was trying to tell me ten minutes away and just agreeing with him. I got to Gorrion, and everything went smoothly. Hotels really nice, staff seem friendly enough. Food was better than I expected.

Breakfast at 7 which I've been advised to eat as normal by dr Acar and then I'm getting picked up at 7.45am to go to the hospital.

Will update you all tomorrow. Thanks

This morning I received a phone call from my hotel room at 8.30an to tell me my driver was on his way. I had some breakfast and arrived at the hospital at 9am.

The hospital was nice, clean and modern. Made my way to the top floor and met the staff who were all very friendly and spoke fairly good English. There were already some other patients there waiting with the new hairlines drawn on. I was led into the reception room where I had my blood tests and agreed on my new natural looking hairline. I then made my payment before being taken into my surgery room.

Not sure where Dr Acar was but I had 2 females working on me. First they shaved my donor area and shaved my current hairline higher to overlap the new grafts with my current hair.

I received many anaesthetic injections probably about 20 in total. These stung a little more than I expected but once they were in the rest was painless.

A male doctor/staff did come in and help with my final hairline but I have no idea if it was dr acar or not. If it was then I did not get introduced to him.

None the less the procedure did seem very straight forward and not at 1 point did I feel like the 2 females did not know what they were doing. I get the impression they've done this hundreds of times.

I was al finished by 2.30pm where I received some lunch and chatted with the staff that worked on me.

Not 100% convinced with my hair line as 1 side seems a slightly different shape to the other but they told me this may just be down to swelling and they will have another look tomorrow when I go to have my bandages removed.

So far for the price I would definitely recommend cosimedica but until I see results it is too early to say.