IdealForehead: sorry if you have been asked these questions before, I did do a search but there are so many posts on these boards it's hard to find anything (it's amusing in a way that there are thousands of hours of posts all about little strands of fibres...
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I hear that antihistamines have been able to regrow hair - such as citerizine - to block PGD2. Is there any evidence that antihistamines do anything at all? on success stories and other boards, every result I've seen has basically been down to the big 3. But I mean every little helps and if citerizine works it can't hurt to add it to my regimen.
My understanding of male pattern baldness is that it was caused by DHT in the (vulnerable scalp) follicles, that somehow causes minitiarization of the follicle -nobody knows why or even how DHT causes the follicle to shrink it seems. Perhaps it causes inflamation that physically damages the follicle irreversibly, which means no lotion or pill will ever regrow it (I now doubt that the follicles are permanently damaged as I've seen MTF regimens regrow a lot of hair from SLICK bald scalps)
Where does PGD2 fit into this? or does DHT release this PGD2 which itself shrinks the follicle? (if so, why does an antihistamine inhibit this? is PGD2 a type of histamine?)
If all this is true then a PGD2 inhibitor would basically be a Finasteride (maintainer) without anti-androgenic side effects, it would be a pretty good prophylactic for people with full heads of hair and a family history of male pattern baldness (of course those of us at NW6 wouldn't really benefit from it)
Do you think all this PGD2 stuff is legit or is it just nonsense?
Also there was another medication that apparently regrew hair; it was originally used for eyelash - bimatoprost - apparently it regrew head hair but I haven't found any real results. Apparently this Bimatoprost also involves prostaglandin somehow. (some prostaglandins are produced by the seminal vessicles, perhaps the male pattern baldness one, perhaps why females don't get male pattern baldness)
This guy says that the slick areas of his scalp remained slick, but otherwise it "turned the clock back 1.5 years" - not sure what that means in reality.
https://www.hairlosstalk.com/intera...ults-of-6-mo-usage-of-allergan-lumigan.57385/
Have you heard of this as well? sorry for the massive post. Personally I think a cure will involve either DHT or some kind of prostaglandin. (Either that, or cloning/stem cells, or finding out why hairs grow on wounded tissue) - any other purported "cure" will just be nonsense