Istanbul HT story (Tayfun Oguzoglu)

[anonymous33]

Hi all

I'm glad to be part of this online community. Thanks all for sharing your stories, you've inspired me to also contribute here.

In all honesty, I wish I had found this website before I rushed off and did my first HT in March this year. Now 5 months post op I know much more about hair transplants then I did before.

No doubt, like so many others before me, I had been naïve and rushed into doing the HT procedure without doing adequate research and without contemplating what the whole experience entails.

If you are thinking about having a transplant, do adequate research and rather pay a bit more and go with a real specialist such as Dr Feller, Hasson & Wong or Feriduni in Belgium, just to name a few. I wish I had done!!

Instead I had a bargain £2200 FUE transplant that has left me quite worried, and has so far been an emotional roller coaster, to say the least. 5 months since the procedure I am able to find some acceptance and can and have to take responsibility for the decision I made, stupid as it was.

I am already thinking of having a corrective procedure, probably with Feriduni some time next year.

Anyway.. To tell you a bit about my HT journey so far. I am 34yrs old, a German bloke who has lived in London most of his life.

I noticed a receding hairline around age 30-then rapid hair loss between ages 32-33yrs. After reading about FUE transplants in the mainstream media with high profile cases such as Rooney, Ramsey and Costner, I decided to look into options to have treatment myself.

I identified Turkey, Istanbul to be a place where good HTs are being done at a reasonably affordable rate.

After doing some research I identified a UK based provider with a referral agent based in London who at the time advertised to be working with Dr Erkan Demirsoy. Demirsoy's work looked promising and I contacted the referral agent from gethair.co.uk saying that I am interested to have a consultation.

I met the guy a few weeks later for a meeting and he seemed nice enough, caring, not pushy and the set up gave a professional and a genuine appearance.

The agent explained that they were not working with Demirsoy any more but instead with an equally (and in his words) 'much more skilled surgeon' called Tayfun Ogozuglu. The agent was very friendly and seemed genuinely caring, I really trusted they guy and took his word for it.

Weeks and even a couple of months passed and no pushy e-mails or phone calls, which I thought was a good sign that the outfit wasn't a money making racket but a genuine established Hair Transplant company.

Admittedly doing very little further research, I decided to go ahead, take the plunch and book a Fue hair transplant procedure to be done on 10th March 2014 in Istanbul with the above mentioned organisation.

I had taken 2 weeks off work and was excited about the prospect of visiting beautiful city and spend 2 weeks there after having transplant done in the first 2 days of my stay.

£2200 for hotel, fue procedure 3200 grafts (****ing bastards- I learnt only in hindsight that this was way too much for my level of balding)

The air port pick up was great, hotel fancy and comfy. Met the surgeon on the day of my arrival, seemed professional in a modern hospital and any doubts I might have had were certainly non existent at this point. I decided to go ahead with the procedure the following day.

Will continue story asap.. Photos of my journey so far will be posted also..

Feel free to feedback, I am particularly interested to hear from others who have had experiences with and the md Tayfun Oguzoglu..

Many thanks,
anonymous33