Hi All,
So, its been awhile, 12 years since my last post.Had a 1500 hair hair transplant 17 years ago, 300 fue into scar 4 years later, used finasteride/minoxidil/tricomin/emu oil for years ... lost hair, full nw6 ~25 years old. Stopped using everything about 13 years go.
I've decided to give it one more go. Despite all the time and now a full NW6, I have a ton of vellus hairs in my nw6 area. Perhaps finasteride/minoxidil and everything else kept the little guys alive to a small degree. So... I have decided to give it one more go.
I will not use minoxidil. After getting off minoxidil, the cloudiness of the world disappeared. Its hard to explain, but perhaps I had sub clinical or very mild Hypoprolactinemia. I will never go back to it, ever.
finasteride didn't do anything, just had rebound boners when I stopped which was pretty good for a little bit, so it was affecting things. I don't want to affect systemic hormones again either.
Anyway, based on all the hype around derma rolling/needling/stamping and what I have been seeing in the forums and research articles, I'm going to try derma stamping. I will also use caffeine shampoo 3x weekly as some studies suggest equivalency to 5% minoxidil.
Therefore my treatment over the next 6 months will be:
- 0.75-1 mm derma stamp once every 14 days. Until redness and some spot bleeding
- Hims caffeine shampoo 3x weekly
- daily multivitamin men's
Did my first derma stamp treatment 2 days ago. At first I wondered why people were complaining about pain, but about half way through I started to feel it and by the end I wanted it to end. Took 20 min total until mild redness and some spots here and there with blood.
Will post pics if I see regrowth.
Cheers
Innermind
PS. My theory as to why Follicabio won't ever go to phase iii -- Investors don't want to take the risk. If all you need is a 20$ dermaroller/stamp and some minoxidil(not even), everyone will just diy it for a price cheaper than most co-pays.
So, its been awhile, 12 years since my last post.Had a 1500 hair hair transplant 17 years ago, 300 fue into scar 4 years later, used finasteride/minoxidil/tricomin/emu oil for years ... lost hair, full nw6 ~25 years old. Stopped using everything about 13 years go.
I've decided to give it one more go. Despite all the time and now a full NW6, I have a ton of vellus hairs in my nw6 area. Perhaps finasteride/minoxidil and everything else kept the little guys alive to a small degree. So... I have decided to give it one more go.
I will not use minoxidil. After getting off minoxidil, the cloudiness of the world disappeared. Its hard to explain, but perhaps I had sub clinical or very mild Hypoprolactinemia. I will never go back to it, ever.
finasteride didn't do anything, just had rebound boners when I stopped which was pretty good for a little bit, so it was affecting things. I don't want to affect systemic hormones again either.
Anyway, based on all the hype around derma rolling/needling/stamping and what I have been seeing in the forums and research articles, I'm going to try derma stamping. I will also use caffeine shampoo 3x weekly as some studies suggest equivalency to 5% minoxidil.
Therefore my treatment over the next 6 months will be:
- 0.75-1 mm derma stamp once every 14 days. Until redness and some spot bleeding
- Hims caffeine shampoo 3x weekly
- daily multivitamin men's
Did my first derma stamp treatment 2 days ago. At first I wondered why people were complaining about pain, but about half way through I started to feel it and by the end I wanted it to end. Took 20 min total until mild redness and some spots here and there with blood.
Will post pics if I see regrowth.
Cheers
Innermind
PS. My theory as to why Follicabio won't ever go to phase iii -- Investors don't want to take the risk. If all you need is a 20$ dermaroller/stamp and some minoxidil(not even), everyone will just diy it for a price cheaper than most co-pays.