29yr old PRP w Acell: The Dr. Parsad Amiya Experience

I am a 29 yr old who's been gradually losing hair since I was 21. The pattern in which I've been thinning is both from the hairline, and the crown, and everything in between. I have a family history of bald dudes, so I figured I'm pretty much screwed. I showed up to my appointment with Dr. Parsad and As written in all the other reviews I read, the staff was very polite and welcoming. I came in with reservations about the procedure and was skeptical about whether or not it really worked. There are a lot of mixed reviews out there and I figured there is only one way to find out, so I decided to take the plunge.
The staff took what felt like a bamillion pictures of my head (when I get a copy of these, I will post some of them for reference). After filling out a ton of paperwork, we began the procedure. They withdrew a couple of viles of blood from me, injected me with an anti inflammatory, and while putting my blood in the centrifuge to separate the PRP from my blood, a nurse began to prepare to shoot me up with local anesthesia throughout my scalp. Before she started, she asked me what I wanted to watch on Netflix during the procedure. I chose the Angry Birds movie to distract me from the pain of getting stabbed in my head a million times, although I must say that movie wasn't as funny as the trailers made it out to be, but that's for a later discussion. She had to pretty much make an entire circle of injections throughout my head. This was extremely uncomfortable to say they least. It was at this point that I learned that my tolerance for pain is like that of a man who has lived his entire life surrounded by fluffy feathered pillows and whose nervous system has only ever communicated feelings of happiness, joy, warmth, and any other senses of touch people generally consider positive and painless. To ease the pain of having my head penetrated in what felt like mid-evil torture, she put a vibrator on my head (giggity) on the areas where she was about to stick me. This actually helped greatly and I would recommend it.
Once she was done with the shots that numbered, in the 40s or 50s, the top of my head was just about completely numb. It literally felt like I was wearing a helmet. Afterwards, I was injected in various areas of my scalp a few more times with what I'm 88.7% sure was more anti inflammatory (I can't really remember, not because any side affect of the procedure, but because I'm a scatter brain and was more so focused on the Angry Birds movie). The nurse sprayed my head a few times with Sea water and rubbed it a bit. This, I imagine, was to make it so Dr. Parsad would be able to more accurately see where my hair is thinning so he can apply the PRP and ACELL with precision, which he did after the application of Sea water. This part of the process was completely painless (duhh, I was totally numb), and really quick.
Once he finished, the nurse, while massaging my scalp, explained to me how to take care of my scalp the next 2 weeks. I was told that I should not do any extraneous activities for the next 36 hours (sorry to the gym rats out there), and that to reduce potential swelling, I am to limit the amount of time I point my head downwards (sorry to the smartphoneaholics out there). I was not to wash my hair with shampoo for those 36 hours, and was told to put an ice pack on my forehead to reduce swelling if needed. Also I was given the green light to take anti inflammatory meds, although I have not.
So all in all the procedure itself took about an hour. If you are impulsive, impatient, and dangerously curious like me, and wanna do the procedure right after the consultation, block out 3 or 4 hours of your day just to be on the safe side.
It took about an hour or two for the feeling in my head to return. Once it did, I felt the soreness in my head that comes along with being stabbed 6,359.23 times. I immediately got on the train home (I am not local to NYC but am a couple hours train ride away). My head reached a point of soreness that was kind of annoying, albeit manageable. It would have probably been better if I took the Tylenol they gave me, but I decided not to take it because it wasn't really that bad.
I woke up the next morning, and my head felt almost completely normal. No swelling that I noticed, no soreness, but it did feel a little itchy which I am told is normal. Now it's the waiting game. I still have my reservations about whether or not this will work, but only time will tell..my curiosities will finally be put to rest, albeit extremely slowly. I am told that I can start seeing results within 3 months to 15 months depending on what part of the hair growth cycle I was in when the procedure was completed. I plan to take pictures periodically and post them up.
To sum it all up, the overall experience was great, and they did the best they could to comfort me, even though I am a big baby who hates needles.
If anyone has any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to comment. I tried to be as detailed and thorough as possible to give you guys out there some data points that will help you know if this is right for you or not. Forgive the hyperbolas and the sarcasm.