Fue in Istanbul, Male Afro Caribbean Hair Type Experience

Hello all. I have decided to document my hair transplant journey with this community as so many journeys on this site have inspired me throughout my experience searching for the right doctor or hair transplant professional to help with my situation.
I have followed and analysed various members reviews and have been rooting for great results for everyone.
I will tell you a bit about my case. Up until the age of 26 I had a full head of thick hair and I would regularly go to the barber shop. I'd time my hair cuts at every 4 weeks and within that 4 week period my hair would grow thick and grow out of shape until the next cut when the barber would shape me up again. This went on for years until when I reached 26 and started to notice my hair slowly thinning in places and the hair cut that I would get every 4 weeks on the same day slowed to about every 8 weeks. By the time I was 28 my hair was thinning alot on top and my barber had to use certain techniques to disguise the thinning areas.
By the time I hit 30 the thinning got so bad I decided to stop going to the barber shop and brought my own clippers and started to learn to manage my hair myself. I stopped going to the barbers because I felt slightly self conscious of my thinning locks and the drastic change that had occurred over a 5 year period. By no means am I a vane person it was just my hair routine and from the culture I come from the barbers and styling the hair does play an important role. When this is taken away prematurely it does affect you a little.
I started to use rogaine, I think my barber introduced me to it before I stopped going to the barbers. I used it for over two years and hated the smell and the white residue it created. Then I stopped using it and my hair got thinner. I then started taking biotin supplements and hair fibres to cover the balding hair. The hair fibres I found to be a big hassle after a while as they would take 10 minutes to apply and then would leave marks on bedding.
At 32 I decided to research hair transplants. At first I looked towards America as being from the UK the hair transplant prices were way out of my league. I researched HT techniques and looked at many HT docs in the US. The biggest stumbling block for me was the huge difference in price between fut procedure and fue and I wasn't interested in fut procedure. Also the fact that I have afro Caribbean hair type and I read that my hair type was tricky when it came to hair transplants.
I then started to research in Turkey and came across websites like this and others. I encountered the same issue when looking for HT doctors in Turkey. Most said they did not deal with my hair type whilst one who is very well known on here told advised me they only work with Somalian hair. I have Somalian friends and know their hair is not that different in texture to afro hair.
I then expanded my research further and found a HT organisation in Turkey that works on afro carribean hair called Astethica. They assured me they have done numerous HT fue procedures on my hair type and they even put me in touch with a patient with my hair who was having the procedure done.
I am now 33 and feel it's the right time to have the procedure done. I am looking to have the fue hair transplant in April. Astethica examined my photos and advised that I needed 4000 graphs below is a picture of how they worked this out.
I hope you all can follow me on this journey and I'm documenting this to help others like me who are looking to have a hair transplant. Feel free to contact me about anything you'd like to ask

I thought I'd upload pictures of my thinning hair to give a perspective of where I am now and what changes or improvements could take place in the future.

My choice in the HT organisation I have chosen for my fue transplant was not one that was made on just one factor alone. Some of you may be wondering why I have decided to go with estethica than elsewhere. Three main factors have driven my decision, the first is the fact estethica have informed me they perform numerous surgeries a month on my hair type. They also have their own technique of follicular extraction that makes it possible to perform fue on my hair type known as the perkutan technique.
The second factor is that estethica is a private hospital and is not a boutique style HT organisation and is properly regulated by the Turkish government.
Thirdly, the price is good and hotel accommodation and transfers are included. I have also found the examination they did with my photos and the interaction with me has so far been good and they have answered all my questions.
All of this will only be put to the test once I have the HT, so we will see.