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How long until we have a cure??
A lot of people on this forum are a lot more educated about all things hair loss related than I am.
If anyone knows How long do you think roughly until we have a cure? Is there any evidence to show that we are close? Or are we still 10/20 years off? Sorry for the pretty vast question, but I'm curious!
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No one knows. If you read posts from early 2000 you'd see the same stuff that you're seeing today.
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True, and this is really tragic...
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Originally Posted by Buster
No one knows. If you read posts from early 2000 you'd see the same stuff that you're seeing today.
Those are really depressing. Reading stuff from 1998-2005, people full of optimism that the cure was just a few years away. Here we are in 2015 in the same boat. Fin/Minox still the only real options for the average Joe. At least hair transplants are getting better and more affordable.
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could you name a few of your top picks with hair transplant dench, iv been looking into Dr. Raymond Konior
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If you searched there are probably 20 million threads on this same topic. No one has any clue honestly. If a cure is NW 7 waking up as NW 1 brad pitt than my guess is a decade probably more like 2 or 3. If your talking stopping MPB from ever progressing I would say 5 years or so if not already with fin/dut. New treatments will exist in the next 3 or 4 years but none of them are turning water into wine like NW 7 to NW 1
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Originally Posted by jeffreybaks
could you name a few of your top picks with hair transplant dench, iv been looking into Dr. Raymond Konior
I've no idea, I haven't looked into a HT (yet).
I just meant that hair transplants are the only thing guaranteed to be getting better, and more affordable with time, compared to what they were 10-15 years ago.
As for treatments, we're still stuck with Fin/Dut and Minox as the main hitters. Really pathetic in my eyes, the side effects from screwing around with DHT can be incredibly serious. Minox is a pain in the ass and even if it works, it's just "artificial" hair that will fall out upon stopping treatment.
RU doesn't really look to be the solution to our problems, it hasn't made it through human trials and in general people aren't having the same success as Fin/Dut and we don't know anything about what damage that systemic absorption could be doing.
Personally I've pinned my hopes on CB, imagine that on the shelf next to Rogaine in the pharmacy in the next 5 years. I imagine people have been saying the same thing about X treatment for the last 20 years though. With the knowledge we have now, the next big thing has to be a topical anti-androgen that blocks DHT from binding to scalp receptors completely, AND does not get absorbed at all in the blood stream causing any systemic sides. Much like what Fluridil or even RU should have been.
I'd be interested to hear from the veterans who've been around these forums for 10-15 years and seen the next "big thing", the next cure, come and go several times. How far away do they think we are from an effective, mainstream treatment that 95%+ guarantees maintenance with no side effects? Considering technology/medicine will only advance in an upward curve , I'd like to think in the next 10 years. As for a cure that takes you from a NW7 to a NW0, well, that just seems like science fiction even in 2015.
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If by cure you mean maintenance I think that could happen in the next 2 or 3 years with the next batch of stuff on the way. Stuff like CB, SM and that kind of thing could end up doing that. Heck with dut right now I would say most men could probably maintain. I think the hairline/temples might be a problem even with fin and there are rare cases where fin or maybe dut dont work for whatever reason. Most of the time though prevention is possible right now assuming you got the money and can accept the risks of the drugs
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