How will Replicel or Aderans technique be used?

[Tracy C]

Hi. I'm new here and am wondering how the Replicel procedure will work for women, as we don't have DHT-resistant follicles, just across the board thinning and miniaturization.

Actually, many women do have a stable zone of DHT resistant follicles. You need a complete work up to determine if you have a stable zone.

Replicel has stated that they believe their treatment will be a sound treatment for women suffering with hair loss. I am very hopeful since androgenetic hair loss runs so strong for both males and females on my mothers side of the family. My sister and I are affected, as are my cousins on my mothers side.

Here is a youtube video for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8kMghojZw4

[RichardDawkins]

Thats a question nobody can answer for sure i am afraid. But actually i am not looking at womens hair loss cause i got a nose fetish, if a woman has a long nose i would cut my arm off for her :-) the rest doesnt matter

[Goldilocks]

Hi. I'm new here and am wondering how the Replicel procedure will work for women, as we don't have DHT-resistant follicles, just across the board thinning and miniaturization. If they take some of my follicles, would I just end up with denser crap-quality hair all over my head? Granted, I'd take it, but I'd take anything...

[Tracy C]

I did, but it isn't my hair. I could never get comfortable with the thought of being out and about with hair that isn't mine. At least now I can wear a pull through if I want. Those are significantly better on your sense of self because they integrate with your own hair.

[kanyon]

Tracy, why didn't you wear a wig all those years? I imagine they're more convincing than hair pieces for men.

[Morgan137]

Thanks a lot, now i am reading posts about astressin b from previous threads

[Pate]

Guys, it is very hopeful that there are many treatments (or cure maybe) coming in next years. Aderans, Histogen and Replicel. But i came across a forum hairloss-research, and i think they are in more able to find something like permanent treatment in nearest future than those. And one issue there, it is not clear whether it is for AA or only for stress-related hairloss. Someone knows about it ?

That is the site for the Astressin-B research team. You can look at the Astressin-B posts on this forum and see we have discussing it a lot already!

Basically the treatment if it works wouldn't likely be permanent but if it works on AGA it could be very useful treatment. Unfortunately at this stage it still has not entered any human trials for hairloss so is unlikely to come out earlier than the stem cell treatments unless they run into problems.

[Tracy C]

But i came across a forum hairloss-research, and i think they are in more able to find something like permanent treatment in nearest future than those.

I may have found a different site than you are talking about, but what I see on the site that I found is nothing new. Nothing revolutionary. Nothing that is any more effective than any other treatment currently available.

The only thing on the site I found that I agree is helpful is to take a multi-treatment approach. I understand many males only want to deal with just one treatment and leave it at that. Women seem to be much more accepting of the fact that a multi-treatment approach is needed. You need to fight hair loss from the inside out and from the outside in.

[Morgan137]

By the way sorry for my english : )

[Morgan137]

Better late than never

Guys, it is very hopeful that there are many treatments (or cure maybe) coming in next years. Aderans, Histogen and Replicel. But i came across a forum hairloss-research, and i think they are in more able to find something like permanent treatment in nearest future than those. And one issue there, it is not clear whether it is for AA or only for stress-related hairloss. Someone knows about it ?

[DepressedByHairLoss]

Actually FUE does leave tiny little scars from where the hair was yanked out and then reinserted into the balding area. I've actually had a couple of surgeons admit that to me. Plus, FUE is really only used to cover very, very small areas. Unfortunately we have no real solutions for this curse of hair loss.

[Bishop]

What about an FUE treatment? That doesn't leave a scar.

[DepressedByHairLoss]

Hey Tracy, that really is a sad story and I totally feel for you. After all, as we all know, you cannot really know how bad hair loss really is until you've experienced it for yourself, and I'm very unfortunately experiencing it in a very terrible way. That really sucks that baldness runs in your family to that high of a degree. I especially feel for you when you say that you spent about 10 years not going out at all, unless it was for work or to go shopping for necessary things. A lot of times, I just sit in my room with the shades down and the light off during the day because this hair loss is so depressing for me. I didn't go out at all either for the first half of this year either. However, I've been forcing myself more recently to get out and do some of the things that I used to do. Over the summer I started going to my rock shows and started to get back into weight lifting. I also started jamming with my friends's local bands every now and again too. Problem is that in order to enjoy myself when I go out, I've usually got to get either drunk or high enough that I can just simply forget about my hair loss and have a good time. I really wish that the people out there who view hair loss as some kind of minor thing would read these types of posts and then realize that hair loss can have an absolutely devastating effect on a person's life.
Make no mistake about it though, I have tried treating my hair loss for a while now. When I first started noticing my hair loss, I tried Rogaine but it didn't do a damn thing for me (and I don't think it does anything for most people either). I've been on Propecia for about a year and a half now, but I think I am experiencing the side effects of the drug (particularly with regards to muscular definition and strength). And I really don't wanna screw around with my muscles since weight lifting has been one of the few things that has provided me with some semblance of happiness lately. I even tried a laser treatment last year. My friend wears a hair system and they had a deal at his salon where they would give you 6 months of laser treatment for $1500. It was expensive, but I was naive and under the impression that this laser treatment was really a viable method to regrow my hair. Needless to say, it didn't do a damn thing for me. Except they only let me use their laser machine once a week for 45 min. I dunno, maybe if I buy a laser contraption of my own, then I could use it more than once a week and that may make a difference. In terms of Propecia, it did slow down my hair loss for a while. However, I'm shedding a lot again and as I said before, I'm experiencing the side effects of it too. I'm not a big fan of hair transplants because they possess way too many flaws. Since a hair transplant permanently scars your head, then that means that you can never shave your head again or wear too short of a hairstyle. And it also usually means a lifelong commitment to Propecia (so that you will not lose your native hair around the transplanted hair) and that drug is already causing me side effects. I realize that as a woman, your situation is different in several ways. A shaved head is not an option for you, whereas there are plenty of men around with shaved heads, including some friends of mine. I've read way too many posts from men who say they wish they could shave their head and just get on with life, but cannot because of their hair transplant scarring. The main reason that hair loss is devastating me so much is because I love that long-haired 80s rock n roll look, especially when I go out to rock shows. But some people tell me that I would look good with a shaved head and a goatee. I've always been a big guy so if I shaved my head, it certainly wouldn't look like I had cancer or anything. I don't know.
Anyway, what pisses me off more than anything is that people like you, me, and so many others are so desperate to regrow our hair and would literally do anything to do so, yet we have such limited and ineffective options out there. That's what really pisses me off more than anything.

[Tracy C]

I noticed it many years ago. I was about the same age that my mother was when she started losing her hair. Her sisters started losing their hair at about the same age as well. I felt cursed and doomed. My mother and my aunts are almost completely bald... I sank into a deep depression that lasted many many years. There was a ten year stretch that I wouldn't even leave my home except to go to work and get supplies I needed... Obviously, I never married. So hair loss absolutely ruined my life. I just wanted to die, but I couldn't do that to the people who love me. Hair loss cost me more than you will ever understand.

I did try Rogaine when it first became available, but it gave me chest pains so my doctor at the time told me to stop using it and deal with my hair loss some other way. I couldn't deal so I became a hermit.

I started treating my hair loss four years ago when my primary care doctor at that time told me about the laser comb. I bought one, I used it as directed and it worked! My hair looked better. So after six months of using the laser comb I tried Rogaine again. The second time I tried it I didn't have chest pains. So I have been using both the laser comb and Minoxidil ever since. I grew some more hair back, but not enough. So I sought out a specialist. I do have a stable zone so I went through with two transplant surgeries.

I know the hair that was transplanted will not fall out. I also know that if I stop using Minoxidil the hair that grew back from the medicine will likely fall out. I have no intention of stopping the use of my laser comb. It's too easy to use, it's convenient and it makes my hair look better. There is no reason to stop. But I would really like to be able to stop using Minoxidil.

I've been suffering from noticeable hair loss for about 1.5 years and it's already driving me crazy.

What is really crazy is to not treat it when it's only been a year and a half. I learned too late to matter that treating hair loss as soon as you notice it is unbelievably important... Knowing what I know now, I would be attacking the problem with everything available if I were you.

[DepressedByHairLoss]

Tracy C: Just out of curiosity, how long have you been struggling with baldness? And at what point did you start to do something about it? In other words, how many years did you suffer from hair loss before you sought out treatments? I've been suffering from noticeable hair loss for about 1.5 years and it's already driving me crazy.