CBS Evening News tommorow...balding cure

[DaSand]

nervx, I'd like to thank you a whole lot for the news you showed. You have made my days better knowing it will be cheaper and I can afford it. I don't have to be like my uncles and grandfathers! :jumpy:

I just feel good hearing what you said. I talked to a consultant at Bosely and they said the same thing last night.

I haven't had a full hairline since I was 15! I don't know, I'm happy!

 

[markelbentley]

today was a crappy *** day. rainy and dark and school sucks. but your posts nervx (ture or not) has given me a little boost... you know, people keep saying that they've been hearing the "it'll be here in five years" mantra over and over, but all i ever here is the "dont get your hopes up, anything close to a cure is at least 10 years away" speech. its coming!!

 

[nervx]

today was a crappy *** day. rainy and dark and school sucks. but your posts nervx (ture or not) has given me a little boost... you know, people keep saying that they've been hearing the "it'll be here in five years" mantra over and over, but all i ever here is the "dont get your hopes up, anything close to a cure is at least 10 years away" speech. its coming!!

I think the 5 year thing is finally dead. When HM first started it was 5 years away and then 5 years after that it was another 5 years and so on. But now we have companies like bosely backing these research groups and their products are making it through fda trials and what not. No ones ever gotten this far before and i doubt they would spend the money on fda trials if the product didn't hold any promise.

There's still the chance that hm will fail but things are at least looking very positive for once. Even some of the die hard negative guys are starting to show signs of hope again.

 

[btp11]

so, a basic hm question here....you can just the procedure done again and again? you dont even have to go under the knife? i mean, it just sounds too good to be true....

 

[Aplunk1]

so, a basic hm question here....you can just the procedure done again and again? you dont even have to go under the knife? i mean, it just sounds too good to be true....

HM will likely be an adjunct to normal hair transplant procedures during the first several years it's available.

However, for the talented surgeons out there, you'll probably only have to make 1 visit during your lifetime to maintain an Elvis-like hair style.

 

[btp11]

so, a basic hm question here....you can just the procedure done again and again? you dont even have to go under the knife? i mean, it just sounds too good to be true....

HM will likely be an adjunct to normal hair transplant procedures during the first several years it's available.

However, for the talented surgeons out there, you'll probably only have to make 1 visit during your lifetime to maintain an Elvis-like hair style.

say i dont have that bad of hair loss....can just get injections and maintain or even improve what i have?

 

[bojangles]

Well this certainly is encouraging news. It's nice to know I won't be forced to go through my 30s, 40s and on with a big bald spot on my head.

 

[Aplunk1]

say i dont have that bad of hair loss....can just get injections and maintain or even improve what i have?

Probably.

 

[nervx]

HM will likely be an adjunct to normal hair transplant procedures during the first several years it's available.

That's the plan according to bosely. The reason being to recoup finacial losses of putting HM through the trials faster than selling the much cheaper hm procedure by itself. It's retard imo since there's no shortage of customers, it's just corp greed.

Nothing is set in stone yet though and the hair transplant+hm combo might be for those that are slick on top as the hair transplant would be used for the hairline. I really don't see diffuse thinners needing the hair transplant part.
Still i don't see why anyone would need a hair transplant, even if the hairline is rebuilt with HM and there's a few stray hairs electrolosis or laser could clean it up with ease.

 

[JustBreathe]

All of this seems like it's too good to be true.

I wonder how it will work for people with weak donor areas
I wonder about timeframe for release
I wonder about cost

I am trying not to get too hopefull about this procedure, though i would like nothing more than being able to have a full head of thick hair when im thirty.

I want hair like Spike off Cowboy BeBop!

 

[chewbaca]

All of this seems like it's too good to be true.

I wonder how it will work for people with weak donor areas
I wonder about timeframe for release
I wonder about cost

I am trying not to get too hopefull about this procedure, though i would like nothing more than being able to have a full head of thick hair when im thirty.

I want hair like Spike off Cowboy BeBop!

With HM there is no such things as weak donor areas. Because with HM u can have as much hair as u want from a single strand taken from the side of yr head. Amazing isnt it.

 

[Aplunk1]

I wonder if they can take a sample of your best donor hair on your scalp -- whatever it is, 20, 50 follicles-- and make them better by injecting folllicle-energizing medicine-- thus making the cloned hairs way thicker and stronger.

 

[JustBreathe]

Chewy - Im taking about a donor area that thins ALMOST to male pattern baldness standards, thats what my dads hairloss is like. I'm wondering if like him I will have no DHT resistant hair (clap your hands and say yeah!)

It would be good if they had a way of testing your hair for DHT survivability (is that a word?)

Andy - Thats a great idea! Probly wont happen in this incarnation though brother

 

[mr_sparkle]

When I saw a derm about getting propecia he pretty much said what we all say - it's to be used until something great like Hair Cloning comes out.

This is just superb. You'd think they'd market it mainly to early 20s kinda people who would be most affected by this and desperate to avoid stupid medicines and concealers.

What do you think the chances of Maybe the NHS will giving British people some sort of deal for it... I mean in really extreme cases where the guy is verging on suicidal about the issue..

 

[bojangles]

I'm a little confused here.....so are there two different companies working on this, or what? And that would essentially mean a cheaper procedure, right?

 

[DaSand]

Can't wait for the years 2007 and 2008...

But I really don't want a transplant, I'd like the HM procedure to get my hairline and other thinning parts back. Can that be possible? Oh damn, I'm excited. I've said it before I want to grow my hair like Edward Carnby from Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare!

 

[Bll3r]

Bll3r Approves

 

[Wezz]

how much do you guys think that a perfect procudure will cost for just a diffuse thinner to have full head of thick hair .. ??

 

[JustBreathe]

err... depends on how diffuse you are?

By the time this technology rolls around i will probably be a slick Norwood 7, so if it works i guess im taking the full package deal.

Norwood 1 baby.

I could see some Doctor's wanting to give you a higher hair line to make it look more 'natural', but sh!t if it's going to cost me over 20k i'm getting the hair i want. I will even throw a farewell party for my chrome dome.

This is all still pipe dream stuff, but fun nonetheless.

 

[markelbentley]

haha. it is fun.