Any hope for teens in the future (story)

[Arashi]

Also, slight derail: why are you saying RU has huge sides? Personal experience? Haven't heard a lot of people reporting massive sides. I take it you hate fin too then?

About RU: I heard from several people who had to stop using it due to several sides. Doesn't mean that will happen to everybody of course. If it works for you, then you should be good for a while

[Illusion]

Agreed there. But the sad fact is that there's not much more than FUE, fina and minox. Which can be helpful to some people, but if you're balding at 19 at a high speed you can forget about FUE if fina+minox cant slow your hairloss down ...

It's a sad fact indeed. Like I said in my first post in this thread, I too ask myself this question a lot. Even though I gave OP the advice to not look at future treatments and focus on what is available right now, I'm unable to do that very same thing. You're hitting the nail on the head with this post. I'm 17 and on fin, minox and RU. If this doesn't help me then I'm completely ****ed.

I know I sound as a huge hypocrite but I just try to give the best advice possible to others, I can't do much more unfortunately


Edit: regarding RU & being good for a while, I hope so man

[macbeth81]

FearTheLoss made a good summary of what is in the pipeline.

https://www.baldtruthtalk.com/showth...-2015-outlook.

There is little hope for the future. A lot of theory but nothing in practice, and the time keeps ticking away.

I remember these forums seven years ago and people thought there would be a cure. Now we are discussing that we might have alternatives to finasteride (setipiprant, cb-03-01) and minoxidil (bimatoprost). Expectations are definitely lower these days.

[Illusion]

Still, the fact that you've been into this whole hair loss stuff for at least 7 years gives me hope that it's possible to delay things big time with current treatments, hopefully enough for future stuff to come out before my hair gets too bad. Efficacy of treatments is very person dependant though ofc.

[Coizi]

That's always the case man. Every year there's are tons of new treatments. The majority are always scam products/doctors (they just dont work), then there are some products that work but have huge sides (like RU) and then there are the projects that are just always and always delayed to some point in the future or simply are being stopped. It's always been like that. Not sure why it would be different now.

If there's a product out there, from a solid company, clinically proven to work and which results can be reproduced, THEN I'll get excited ... Until that day, every year is just going to be a repetition of the last one, with new magic hair growth products coming out tomorrow ...

wanne bet that cb-03-01 is gonne go to the market ?

[Arashi]

wanne bet that cb-03-01 is gonne go to the market ?

Who knows. It might, it might not, depending on the results of the trials. And even if succesful, the acne version wont reach the market before 2018 and alopecia is even behind that. And these trials ALWAYS take longer than expected.

Not trying to get anybody down. Just trying to be realistic here.

[macbeth81]

Still, the fact that you've been into this whole hair loss stuff for at least 7 years gives me hope that it's possible to delay things big time with current treatments, hopefully enough for future stuff to come out before my hair gets too bad. Efficacy of treatments is very person dependant though ofc.

I started finasteride last October, so not even six months yet. No treatments before, just busy hoping against hope reading hairloss boards. I haven't delayed anything yet.

[Swooping]

Still, the fact that you've been into this whole hair loss stuff for at least 7 years gives me hope that it's possible to delay things big time with current treatments, hopefully enough for future stuff to come out before my hair gets too bad. Efficacy of treatments is very person dependant though ofc.

You don't suffer from AGA anymore, you have nothing to worry about.

[burtandernie]

I feel the longer we go with no better treatments the better the odds become something new will show up. So I think the odds are good for something new and there are a lot of things coming some of them will make it for sure in the next 5 years

[Notcoolanymore]

Every year there's talk here about some new meds or treatments. And it always ends the same: either the treatment has huge side effects or doesn't work at all. So I don't think 'things are looking decent' at all. They look like they looked 5 years ago. And most probably will look in 5 years from now too.

I agree with this 100% I have only been around these forums for a couple of years now, but have read plenty of older threads of promising treatments. None of them have panned out. Now I will agree that it is great that at least it appears that work is being done to cure hair loss, but I will not be getting excited until we have an approved treatment that is readily available. I just can't get my hopes up for an overpriced treatment that we don't even know whether or not it works. Not to mention that we have to experiment on ourselves with these new potential treatments.