Some told me that it was minimal, some say that it was so bad that they would never have another child. I believe that pain is relative for each of us. Some people are pain tolerant and suffer very little from the worst type of pain.
Some people are just the opposite and suffer dearly at the most minor pain of encounters encounter.
We are all different and the reactions to the pain of the anesthetic associated with a hair transplant varies with the individual. Tony's response to pain was more severe than most of the patients we have transplanted. During the procedure, little pain is experienced by anyone as the local anesthetic 'numbs' the entire head. Of course, more powerful drugs or gasses could be used but with the more powerful drugs, there is a death risk which builds as the power of the drugs are exploited, even under the best of anesthetic hands. The death risk from general anesthesia runs somewhere between one in 5,000 to one in 20,000 and it is my opinion that this type of risk is unacceptable for a hair transplant procedure.