Anything New Besides The Pipeline? Why So Long

[Plzhelp]

Hello everyone. Is there anything new coming out soon?? Like maybe the next few months? I know the pipeline, but none of it looks soon at all? Is there still nothing besides finasteride and minoxidil??

 

[Pavi]

The VERY earliest something would come out is Brotzu's lotion, which I assume would be some time in the first or second quarter of 2017. Everything else, if it works, is late 2018, early 2019

 

[Trouse]

Obviously we won't for absolute certain until the other treatments do come out, but what's the consensus on getting a hair transplant as a stop gap treatment? Have we seen any evidence to suggest that histogen, replicel, or even Tsuji would be hindered by the scar tissue that a transplant creates? My hair loss isn't super agggressive but without being able to physically manage finasteride and relying solely on minoxidil, waiting until 2019 sounds potentially calamitous for me.

 

[sunchyme1]

Obviously we won't for absolute certain until the other treatments do come out, but what's the consensus on getting a hair transplant as a stop gap treatment? Have we seen any evidence to suggest that histogen, replicel, or even Tsuji would be hindered by the scar tissue that a transplant creates? My hair loss isn't super agggressive but without being able to physically manage finasteride and relying solely on minoxidil, waiting until 2019 sounds potentially calamitous for me.

 

[sunchyme1]

What do u mean without being able to physically manage finasteride?

 

[Trouse]

What do u mean without being able to physically manage finasteride?

I just mean that my body can't tolerate the drug's side effects. Even with micro-dosing (.5mg every other day) in less than a month my libido submarined and my erection quality steadily deteriorated, eventually approaching full blown ED, which is what happened the first time I took the drug at its prescribed dose a year and a half earlier.