I don't think we need a new thread, but what about a thread for people who have tried dermarolling and it HASN'T worked?
There are a couple of guys like that in here but it's mostly success stories and there's no way it can work as well for everyone who tries it.
Maybe some stories of nothing happening after 3 months of following the study would be interesting.
The problem is, of course, that those with positive results are far more motivate to share them. I wouldn't have bothered coming online to tell you that dermarolling didn't work if I had tried it for 3 months and got no results.
I'm not sure if that's how stuff works on hairloss forums. Actually, the general trend seems to be the opposite here. Of all the hairloss sufferers who are on treatments, mostly the non-responders are the ones who come to post in these forums. The ones who respond well usually doesn't have any need to come here to share their success story (like you) because they just happily move on with their lives.
Of course, I know there are several nice guys posting 100% positive stories about their great response to treatments here, but if you look at the non-responder / good responder ratio, I'd say it's something around 10 to 1. The same applies to proportions of other variables such as insidence of side effects for some treatments. For example, despite several studies have reported that for finasteride, sides occur in less than 10% of subjects, in these forums you will see about 75% of members complaining that they got sides from finasteride. Why? Because the ones who didn't suffer from sides have absolutely no motivation to come here. This sampling bias occurring in forums is responsible for the religious behavior of most active members regarding finasteride, saying it's literally poison and considering the use of it as some kind of heresy
Having said that, there have been more than 4 members here that are close to the 3 month mark and have said they see zero results so far. There is.a guy PMing most of us asking us to fulfill a form to gather data regarding results. Probably he will provide summary statistics when enough people is surveyed and when a certain minimal timeframe is achieved.
And that is exactly what we need. We need to know the proportion.of people who respond, especially in the long term, and if enough data is gathered of members using slightly different regimes, optimal variables for achieving regrowth (such a frequency and needle length) can be somewhat inferred. That's why it's very important that many more members start taking part in this community trial, and that most of them (or us) stick to this for a lot of time.