Anyone's baldness caused or accelerated by ACCUTANE???

[docj077]

There was a study about accutane that I or somebody else posted on this site a while back. It demonstrated that Accutane increased TGF-beta in the scalp of those that use it. Accutane does two other things that I've found interesting. It increases keratinocyte proliferation and turnover and it decreases keratinocyte differentiation.

Those last two processes are also found in male pattern baldness as is the increase in TGF-beta.


Basically, if you make a drug that does the exact opposite of whatever accutane is doing to your skin, you'd probably have a very interesting male pattern baldness drug on your hands. I would seriously breakdown in tears if the cause of male pattern baldness and underlying pathophysiology of hair loss has been right under our noses all this time in the form of those that use accutane. We'd have all the answers and know exactly where to target the cure.

wouldn't doing the opposite cause people to break out, perhaps?

No, not necessarily. Do you know if anyone has every used psoriasis medications against male pattern baldness? This interests me now. It's probably nothing, but looking into it might not hurt. I'll take a look around.

 

[ithappens]

i've been doing a ton of research on accutane and hair loss over the past few days and it's really really scary. there are a lot and i mean a ton of people who have lost most of their hair on this drug and had ti never come back. my male pattern baldness, or what i thought it could have been, doesn't make sense to me anymore. i mean i'm 21 and in only around 8 months i've lost over 60% of my hair and my temples, my hairline has receeded and my temples are completely bald. something isn't right, male pattern baldness doesn't hit this fast in anyone usually. accutane has something to do with this big time.