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I’m using a Derminator 2 once a week (missed one week) with a needle depth of 1.5 mm, not a dermaroller. I see blood spots immediately upon starting use of the Derminator so it’s not a problem of pressing too hard (I definitely don’t) or using it too long. Maybe I need to decrease the needle...

Update I’ve continued to microneedle with the Derminator 2 at 1.5 mm weekly. I have to do it on Friday and let my scalp heal over the weekend so that it looks normal by work on Monday. I had one week when I could not microneedle due to weekend activities. I let my girlfriend know that I was...

Week 2 After reading up on the supposed Folica procedure this week, today I tried using the Derminator 2 at 0.75 mm. I knew it would take a long time to achieve the required wound density with the Derminator 2. I made several passes which took awhile because my control with the tool is not...

So, redness from my first microneedling session was largely gone by Saturday and I couldn’t really see anything by Sunday. This is still going to be hard to time because I do go out some weekends. I may have to skip needling some weeks and eventually I’ll have to tell my girlfriend “Hey, so I’ve...

I replied below that I eventually decided it was related to androgenic hairloss for me. My scalp does still hurt at times and if I let my hair start growing it can be uncomfortable. Sometimes it feels like the hair is growing out of the follicle and either hurting there or jabbing me in the...

Oh how I pleaded with doctors in the beginning to explain to me why it hurt so much. Nobody cared. Multiple dermatologists, general practitioners, every psychiatrist or psychologist I’ve ever gone to, and I don’t even remember what other specialists. It became obvious that it was androgenic...

It is LOL! Does it not sound like it? I probably threw in some nonsense wording .

Microneedling! That looks like the kind of crazy, desperate sh*t I would do haphazardly back in my 20s! So I bought a Derminator 2 and some 12 needle cartridges. Despite what the website said it didn’t take months to arrive. I got it this week and decided to try it out immediately after work...

I was focused on not losing my eyebrows. I lost significant hair there soon after my hairloss started. They’re thinner, less dense, don’t come as close to each other as they did and are very sparse at the opposite ends. To complicate trying to keep them looking OK, some are thick, dark, curved...

I started losing my hair in late 2001 at 22. At first I thought it was stress. I was shedding like crazy. Then I thought something was wrong with me. Doctors dismissed it as male pattern baldness. It didn’t look like that to me at the time. And there was a major problem no one could explain -...

I itch all over! My skin feels very dry even though it isn't, except on my scalp where I do notice alot of dry skin flaking off. This seems to have started with my hair loss but due being on various medications for depression that I thought could casue the problem, and constantly hearing the...