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Advice needed. Belgravia or Not?
Hello All,
I’m new to this forum and the whole internet thing so I hope I’m doing this right. I’m looking for some advice with regards to hair loss. I’m a middle aged man who has been suffering from hair loss for around 2 years. My main problem area is around my crown however I am also thinning on the top of my head. Over the past 18 months I have been using Regain 5% and it doesn’t appear to be working for me. Yesterday I made contact with the Belgravia Centre via on online diagnostic form on their website and shortly after I received a call back from a treatment advisor claiming that they could help and recommended I purchased a year’s treatment at a cost of around £1200.00 this consisted of the following medication, Propecia (once a day tablet) as well as Minoxidil 12.5% + Azelaic Acid and a Hair Max Laser Comb. She said that this treatment had a 90% success rate.
I was wondering if anyone on this forum has used this course of treatment and have any recommendations feedback? or maybe you can provide details on alternative treatments, I’m not sure if the medication they offered by is available to purchase at a lower cost? One product I have been looking at since speaking to the Belgravia is ******* 15 Plus which contains the medication that was recommend to me by the Belgravia Centre.
Any help/ advice will be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
BTT1711
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I agree with Winston before committing to a series of treatments I suggest you go to your GP and get a prescription for Propecia. A lot of people get great results using both Propecia, and Minoxidil together. These are the only two drugs FDA approved for hair loss.
The FDA has also approved the laser comb see link below;
http://www.baldingblog.com/2007/02/0...-fda-approval/
but it does not seem to have the proven track record that Propecia and Minoxidil have.
I notice you are in the UK maybe you should go to Dr. Bessam Farjo's website
(he has a practice in Manchester) and read up there. Even though he is a hair restoration surgeon he has useful information about hair loss. I hope these suggestions help.
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Actaully, The HairMax Lasercomb is not FDA approved, it has a 510 clearance from the FDA which is much different as Dr. Rassman points out.
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Senior Member
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Thankyou both for your replys. I think speaking to my gp is the best place to start.
I have been reading about propecia it sounds relly possitive however I must admit I'm a little worried about the side affects.
I'll also have a read of DR Farjo's website.
Thanks again for your help.
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Good luck to you! Just don't waste your money on that garbage comb... I promise you it is a waste of money. Go read their studies. If they want to claim it does anything they can only claim it might remove some hair since it lost more hair than the placebo group. It does not improve hair at all. THEY proved it themselfs.
Finasteride side effects are rare and overhyped, though some are common. Spend a lot of time educating yourself!
Like they say, "With great baldness, comes great responsibility."
Or something like that
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No problem. Sorry for my aggressive stance...but I just hate this company!
How has fluridil been working for you?
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not a lot yet but no worse either
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I would stay clear of Belgravia, while they advertise themselves as 'One of the world's leading hair loss websites' - they are a complete rip off.
The products they prescribe are not scam product but you pay so much more for it. So essentially because they disguise themselves as legit just because they sell and prescribe the 2 FDA approved products. They essentially prescribe propecia and minoxidil for £1500 a year, that is £125 a month. I am aware they throw some multi vitamins labelled hair vitalics or something, but you can pick those up for next to nothing in health shops.
I use propecia from Boots hair retention programme which cost £30/month for propecia and buy minoxidil from the US which comes to about £12/month.
Now if you were to use proscar and generic minoxidil, I'm sure that the cost could go down to about £15-20 a month. So Belgravia centre is like every other hair loss clinic, they prey on insecurities of hair-loss sufferers and charge you an arm and a leg for the 'convenience'.
My advice to you will be keep off any hair loss clinics.
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