Recent content by TheLastHairbender

No biggie, some spammer running SEO tools dropped a backlink as an html href attribute in his first post. Only thing is that if you look at the only few sites that allowed it to get crawled it's a pretty weak group to be a part of (basically unmoderated tumblr lists), suggesting it was a pretty...

No danger in that, looking at the volume of web-wide spam of that particular post I'm sure gourmetstylewellness.com was never personally visited. It looks like you've already set [rel=nofollow], so he doesn't get points but it doesn't help for prevention. (Hopefully nofollow isn't a global attribute, that would be...

[reference to deleted spam] Hi freelancer hired by Bojan Dubovljevic, hope you enjoyed posting the backlink to your website. Nice try using [a href] tags to make it less obvious. You may also try [font color=] tags around the link text to hide it even more. Unfortunately html is not parsed in...

Thanks for the support. I have done a course of retin-a up there, hard to distinguish the individual benefits but wasn't enough to create hair where there was none. I am actually planning to do a course of 15% minoxidil but it's become pretty tough to get in the U.S. I may also increase the...

Yeah I don't know, the temples are a treatment-resistant region for a lot of people. It can be a very difficult location to generate regrowth (minoxidil was not granted the authority to claim regrowth potential at the temples, for example, although it definitely works there for me). But the fact...

Oh man I'm sorry to hear that. Staying on schedule is still probably the best course of action, it's possible the reintroduction of minoxidil has induced some additional shedding there, which would preempt expected regrowth. If you're using retin-a on the temples as well maybe it should be...

Whoa! So ~ .05mL of .03% solution once daily is enough to be effective?! That delivers only .015 milligrams of bimatoprost, so only about half a milligram would be used for a month of daily application. At bulk rates of $800/g, that means a month's worth of bulk bimatoprost would cost only 40...

Thanks for the kind words. I'd actually like to thicken up the treatment-resistant hair on the vertex if possible but other than that it's really just about maintenance over the long-term now. For the purpose of thickening the vertex I'm thinking about trying a course of 4% miconazole nitrate...

Hey Dr. Tom, thanks for the input. Your reference to "1 drop of bimatoprost"...do you mean one drop of a .03% bimatoprost solution? Were you making your own or using the .03% solution for ophthalmic application off-label? It seems to me that if you're already using a liquid minoxidil it would be...

Yeah I notice this type of thing too - it's not always full-size old-looking hairs shedding off, sometimes it seems like fresh hairs shed off as well, like ones that are slightly more developed than tiny vellus hairs, but not nearly of terminal size yet. As far as I can tell it doesn't seem to...

Yeah and cost may not come down anytime soon pending approval as a pharmaceutical for treating androgenic alopecia. Although the original patent expired last month (#6403649), Allergan holds extension patents for use as a topical formulation for eyelash hypotrichosis that don't expire until 2022...

Well some methods are more sensible at present than others - bimatoprost, for example, seems very promising and has already passed FDA Phase I safety trials (http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01189279) and submit its Phase II results just last month...

Yes, the comments I sent you were inspired by those discussions taking place on the German forums. It's an interesting subject, but too early to be actionable in an assuredly safe way, despite several reports that people have experienced hair regrowth using the cetirizine formulation. It looks...

Hey Stefan, it seems like an interesting topic lately. Sent you a PM because I'm really not an expert on those treatments yet.

Yeah, each hair follicle is on a natural cycle of a year or two of growth (anagen), then a couple months of rest (catagen & telogen). The start of each cycle is independently distributed among follicles so the overall appearance of the hair remains consistent, with about 80% of hairs in the...