Ready for my hair transplant journey

This is my hair right nowFor about two years I have been stuck between a hair system and a transplant. But I kept getting stuck on the upkeep, the glue, the every few weeks thing, and what happens at the gym or on holiday. A transplant is one shot and then months of waiting for something you can't see yet.I booked it and Honestly I'm impatient, I want to be at month six already.Two things I actually want to hear from people who've been through it:First, for the first two or three months, did you look worse than before you started? I keep reading that the transplanted hair falls out before it grows back, and nobody says how that actually looks in month two. I work in front of people all day.Second, if you had thinning behind the transplanted area, did your doctor put you on anything to protect it, and did you stay on it? I don't want a good front and a thin crown three years from nowwI'll post the after photos after process :d