My head is still traumatized & I know it will take time to heal but I will try to give an honest review while I still remember the very recent experience at Vera Clinic, as a female hair transplant patient. Before deciding on Vera Clinic and while doing my research, it was difficult to find real-life, unpaid/not-sponsored reviews/testimonials from female hair transplant patients. Starting from WhatsApp, Tolga Guines was professional & answered my questions promptly and efficiently. However, I do think a video-call consultation with a medical doctor would have been appropriate. Throughout the entire process, I realized there was very little interaction or consultation time with medical doctors. All the service personnel on-site as well as the drivers were exceptionally well-mannered, so for that, I thank you all.//nClear instructions were given on the meet-up at IST airport. Although it seemed chaotic at first, being directed to and handed over from 1 person to another, I eventually reached the designated driver who brought me to Elite World Asia which was a 5-star hotel. Check-in was smooth & the hotel was great. Next day, I had a less-than-5-minute consultation with Dr. Saim Nedim Ecevit re: Exosome Treatment then the Exosome injections were administered, which were relatively bearable. At the same time, I started to notice I was the only female patient among all the hair transplant patients at Vera Clinic. Saturday was the transplant surgery, so it was an early start at 7:20am & the driver had to pick up 2 other patients from other hotels. The 2nd consultation with Dr. Aidin Chadordouz Jeddi was a slightly longer duration 10-15 min but there was a lot of waiting time as there were many patients that day. I would have hoped for a bit more discretion to be provided to me as a female patient but there was not. Waited over an hour for the ‘shaving process’ as no one was available. Then when my turn finally came, 3 people had their hands all over my head/hair. I felt it was quite rushed but there wasn’t much else I could do about it except to follow the process.//nThe most painful part of this entire experience was when they injected the local anesthetic into my scalp, first around the donor area (2 window strips) and then in the recipient area. So no, it was most definitely not “NFI (Needle Free Injection)” advertised because multiple injections were made, and half a Xanax pill hardly sedated the pain from those anesthetic injections. Sure, once the anesthetic kicked in, my whole head numbed up and there was no more physical sensation, except the emotional stress that remained throughout the procedures. As I only heard female voices, I don’t think the graft extraction was performed by any of the doctors I met with earlier. Even during the hair transplant, a doctor only came in the room for 2 minutes to see/ask how things were going but the procedure was not performed by him nor any of the doctors I was earlier introduced to. So I don’t know who performed my hair transplant surgeries. What was also lacking was a step-by-step guide to what was going on, what was to be expected etc. E.g. no one explained when the PRP treatment was done until I asked on the last day and was then told it was treated on the hair grafts before implanting in the recipient areas. The second worse part was the bandaging process after the surgeries. It was a mess. Seemed liked no one was equipped to handle long hair delicately. Rubber gloves were cut into small pieces to make hair ties. Friction from the ‘impromptu rubber bands’ were pulling at the very few and fine remaining hairs on my head, and again, there were 6 hands all over my head trying to tie my hair and tape the bandage. I think this process can be improved because it was not a pleasant experience for me. When they finally decided enough sticky tape was used to secure the thick bandages, & my few remaining hairs braided/tied with the cut-rubber-glove-bands, I was done and so exhausted that I just wanted to crawl into a hole & hide for a long, long time. But there was a mis-coordination of logistics, & I waited over 2 hours for a driver to bring me back to the hotel.//nLast day was OxyCure treatment explained by Dr. Hasan Ali Nogay who addressed us as a group & that went fine. But the removing of bandages & hair wash was not pleasant either. Should be better planned for a female/petite patient – support seat/neck cushion, or simply someone more experienced with handling long hair delicately.//nAll in all, I am glad to have gone through this experience and hope that the results in 6-12 months will somehow make it all worthwhile because I honestly never want to do this again. It was a last resort for me, having tried many other ways to stop my hair thinning & improve the density. Will update my review later...