sharifeh, don't be discouraged, trust me-- I know it's hard. Honestly, the hardest part so far for me has been months 5,6,7 -- basically up until the time I got the treatment. I'm sure the treatment has worn off my hair but for the past 8 weeks I've been alternating between blow drying at home and getting my roots blown at the salon. Now I'm 10.5 months post and plan to lay off the heat for a while which means I'll be wearing textured styles. I'm dci'ing my hair now at 10.5 months post and honestly my hair feels much easier to deal with and less bothersome than it did earlier on. Keep on pressing on
. Use this time to learn your hair, learn what products you like, what styles work for you.
When I was earlier on in my transition I was miserable honestly. Damn miserable. My new growth felt dry, unbearable, just miserable honestly. I was wearing my hair in the same style everyday -- my hair slicked back into a ponytail. Now I realize that when I wash my hair, I either have to do a braid out/twist out, or I have the option of blow drying it. If I do a braid out, I know that I will have to be rebraiding it during the week. At first that idea sounded annoying to me, but I'm realizing that I have to treat my hair differently than when it was fully relaxed, my transitioning/natural hair might take some more time.
Play with your hair, and
get to know it, everyone has different hair and only you know what products work, styling, etc will work for you. Use this time to become familiar with your hair. Do you have staple products that work for you? Also, have you tried washing in sections? It takes much longer but it makes things easier. I'm honestly learning as I go along. I'm learning to balance my heat usage, learning to style my hair. This didn't come so easy to me as it may seem. I looked at my bangs, I noticed I have straight pieces there -- that could be from me blow drying my hair or getting my roots blow. Either way -- that let me know that right now I need a rest from heat. Trial and error. Trial and error.
Be encouraged and keep pushing through. Find some staple products, section your when you style it, detangle from the bottom going up, start doing some braid outs and learn how to style those. If you have a stylist that's reliable, get your hair flat ironed once in a while.
I'd spend tons of time reading curly nikki, natural hair blogs, scouring the net for help with transitioning and what helped me mostly is just trying to learn my hair and deal with it as I go along. When I'm fully natural I'll be learning too -- learning how to style it, learning what styles work for me, what products yield best twist out/braid out. Learning how long my hair will take to dry, etc.
For ex, I've always been a proponent of poo'ing my hair. Well, after doing braidouts this whole week and using moisturizer and product in my hair, I couldn't wait to shampoo my hair this morning! I don't think I could be a cowash person. I use more product on my hair now that I'm transitioning and therefore need to lather up my hair.
I never BC'd just ver small trims here and there...my permed ends mostly snapped off from improper handling in the beginning of my transition. I couldn't be happier with my hair as it is now and I do it all myself now...I was a true and faithful salon head from about age 5 to 35 
on making it to 10.5 months post. Thats flippin' awesome!
Unfortunately for most of this transition I think I should rely on a stylist to press my hair out. It's easiest to maintain but I also want to know that I can handle it on my own if I need to. 
My hair is so dense it takes forever to detangle and style too smh
