PGD2, betamethasone valeratel, and hair growth....

[gutted]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17314444

[NeedHairASAP]

Corticosteroids would not work on either MPB or Diffuse Thinners.

why do you think this? especially when you consider we now know PGD2 is not only affecting AAs, but MPBs too.

[gutted]

What kind of antibiotics?

No, I haven't used garlic or iodine on my hair. Or eggs or mayonnaise or any food that any one suggests for me to use. Lol.

AA is thought to be caused by bacteria/microbes.

iodonie/garlic have been used by AA patients for regrowth due to thier antibacterial properties.

anyway you'll probably benefit from some of these treatments posted in this thread.

[PatientlyWaiting]

have you tried antibiotics? or applying garlic/iodine to the aa patches.

What kind of antibiotics?

No, I haven't used garlic or iodine on my hair. Or eggs or mayonnaise or any food that any one suggests for me to use. Lol.

[gutted]

BTW the spots where I have AA, where completely hairless, just soft skin, not one hair. 4 injections of Corticosteroids throughout 4 months, brought hair to the spots, but it's still noticeable. Corticosteroids would not work on either MPB or Diffuse Thinners.

I wish it was just diffuse thinning. It would have been much easier.

have you tried antibiotics? or applying garlic/iodine to the aa patches.

[PatientlyWaiting]

BTW the spots where I have AA, where completely hairless, just soft skin, not one hair. 4 injections of Corticosteroids throughout 4 months, brought hair to the spots, but it's still noticeable. Corticosteroids would not work on either MPB or Diffuse Thinners.

I wish it was just diffuse thinning. It would have been much easier.

[PatientlyWaiting]

where did you get the idea that you have AA? it looks like diffuse MPB to me...

My dermatologist diagnosed me with AA.

It's 100% AA. It started last year. I already had years with regular MPB, diagnosed with MPB by every doctor I saw. It was not an idea that I got, it's a fact. I have both MPB and AA.

[2020]

I take Clobetasol Propionate ointment. My dermatologist prescribed it last month to treat the AA spots on my head.

where did you get the idea that you have AA? it looks like diffuse MPB to me...

[NeedHairASAP]

which one are you using?

I'm going with the Clobetasol propionate foam because my little beta foam sample cans are spraying liquid and may have gone bad... I had this stuff prescribed two years ago. I also want to go with it because thats what they used in the above study.



patiently, how often do you use it? twice daily? and for how long can you use it? I've heard no more than a week, but the above experiment says it checked in after 12 weeks.




I think clobetasol and betamethasone are both options for what you have... its really a toss up what the derm would give you. My derm gave me both for something she couldnt determine. She thought maybe seb something, or maybe psorisis, or excema. I never had a follow up because the shampoo she gave me cleared my itch and scalp up... keta-whatever shampoo... works wonders on your scalp

[PatientlyWaiting]

I'm starting treatment now as I have some of the foam. Can anybody get ahold of the journal article? I'd like to know how often and how long the presecribed the use of the foam

What foam are you talking about?

I wonder why my derm hasn't told me about this foam.

[PatientlyWaiting]

I take Clobetasol Propionate ointment. My dermatologist prescribed it last month to treat the AA spots on my head.

[gutted]

I'm starting treatment now as I have some of the foam. Can anybody get ahold of the journal article? I'd like to know how often and how long the presecribed the use of the foam

which one are you using?

[NeedHairASAP]

You got to be kidding me. They need to test that with MPB
A lot of people affected by AA end up cured spontaneously

I'm starting treatment now as I have some of the foam. Can anybody get ahold of the journal article? I'd like to know how often and how long the presecribed the use of the foam

[bigentries]

before


after



from this study on clobetasol propionate and pimecrolimus

You got to be kidding me. They need to test that with MPB
A lot of people affected by AA end up cured spontaneously

[gutted]

it has to be some of the best regrowth ever recorded... not sure how people missed this... I guess it's because it happened before the immune system and PGD2 was implicated? in other words, it was when they thought AA was vastly different than MPB

yeah i agree.