What should we be excited for the most?

[BoSox]

I can't handle my hair line anymore. The news has been somewhat silent on hair loss cures or treatments. It's 2015, and I need my hair fixed :/ I'm seriously starting to get desperate, I was told I'm not a hair transplant candidate. What do I look forward to? Anything?

[hellouser]

Setipiprant and Replicel.

[Trouse5858]

Can I ask why you're not a HT candidate? Are you a diffuse thinner?

[BoSox]

That I am. I've been told by several doctors I'm not a candidate. Even when I was about to purchase a hair system, we went over options (propecia, which I'm already on, and hair transplant, etc..) I'm just fed up, I don't like shaving my head, nor do i like wearing hats. They need to fix this right now. We should know enough about growing hair to push something through.

[Trouse5858]

Crap. I'm a diffuse loser too. I saw a HT doctor a couple years ago but it was my impression that I was just too young at the time for it to be feasible (22). I'm kind of banking on a transplant to bridge me to these treatments, even though it looks decent with concealer..

[BoSox]

Setipiprant and Replicel.

Will Setipiprant reverse the hairs that are really thin? I assume it won't regrow on bald scalps. But if it can reverse my thinning, I could repair my hair line with transplants.

[It's2014ComeOnAlready]

Will Setipiprant reverse the hairs that are really thin? I assume it won't regrow on bald scalps. But if it can reverse my thinning, I could repair my hair line with transplants.

I would say your best best would be bimatoprost and setipiprant. One is expected to halt hair loss (and be more effective than propecia), and the other makes hair thicker and more pigmented anywhere on the scalp. Bim should be released next year if that phase 2b went well. It looks like it did.

[Swooping]

There isn't going to come a cure anytime soon mate. Don't count on it, but miracles do happen sometimes. There isn't any outlook of better treatments than Propecia/Minoxidil. Obviously you can go the kitchen sink approach with more arsenal soon possibly, but that will raise chance of side effects for example. Just know that every second counts in AGA, many people stress this and it's really true. Even castration + extreme estrogen therapy doesn't even help much just think about that. The pathology of AGA is extremely heard to treat. Prevention is the key, reversal is goddamn impossible currently. Future may look different but definitely not short or mid-term. Time is ticking meanwhile.

You are you not a HT canditate? Send your pictures to both Dr. Koray Erdogan and Dr. Hakan Doganay. I bet you didn't consult with them?

[mlamber5]

IMO, I think the one people should be the most excited about is Setipiprant. I believe that not only does it hold the highest promise of stopping hair loss, but potentially even reversing it. A lot of literature out on the web about prostaglandin d2 and gr44 and its interactions in the scalp. Interesting stuff.

[mlamber5]

Just one of quite a few pgd2 studies

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/exd.12348/pdf

[KO1]

I think the most interesting is SM04554. Replicel and Histogen have been a joke so far, and Setipiprant probably will just be fin-lite. Follica is for all intents and purposes gone, and there is nothing else in the pipeline of significance. I think it would be interesting if somebody tried a PGD2 blocker in concert with PGE2.



There really is a reason that 90% of the questions on this forum can be answered by "take finasteride".

[burtandernie]

Whatever gets here soonest and does something

[BiqqieSmalls]

RepliCel, Bim, Setipiprant, and CB-03-01

[BiqqieSmalls]

Oh and SM04554

[Illusion]

There really is a reason that 90% of the questions on this forum can be answered by "take finasteride".

Amen, there's so much truth to this.