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The boy from Wales flew to Turkey to get his hair transplant done for free.
Waking up to a swollen face scared Owen, who feared getting an STI (Pexels/Representative Image)
Medical surgeries often come with some precautions to follow post-treatment. The Turkish hair transplant procedure also has a list of rules that should be avoided for a specific period. However, a 24-year-old influencer has recently ended up breaking one of the rules, resulting in a swollen face.
As per Daily Star, Ruben Owen, who recently had his Turkish hair transplant, was advised to avoid any strenuous activities that could lead to sweating. This meant that he could neither sunbathe nor work out or have sex for two weeks. Flouting the ‘no sex rule’ led to his face blowing up like a balloon. Talking to the daily, he said, “I wake up and my head’s blown up like a balloon—face puffed, scalp tight, and it looked like I’d been stung by 100 bees.”
The boy from Wales flew to Turkey to get his hair transplant done for free. Reportedly, this was some kind of barter collaboration where Owen had to do clinic modelling in exchange. While the surgery was successful, his mistake during the post-surgery phase led him to one of the biggest troubles as soon as he came back to Wales. “I didn’t quite listen about the sex part,” he admitted.
Waking up to a swollen face scared Owen, who feared getting an STI. He immediately used Google to see if his symptoms matched with any STI. However, after figuring out what had really happened, he immediately regretted ignoring the doctors’ advice. He was relieved after being told that the swelling would go down eventually. “I looked like something out of a film. It was something else,” the influencer added. It took seven days for the swelling to settle down.
Ruben decided to get the transplant done at the age of 22, worrying about his receding hairline. He flew out to Turkey in November 2022, which cost him nearly $1,078 (£800) for his round-trip flights. He was back to Wales within a day of the procedure.
Turkey has become a popular destination for individuals to get cut-rate cosmetic procedures. The cheap prices might sound attractive to many but may lead to high risks in a few cases if there are complications.
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