Why haven't many people tried this method? Any specific reason? I know it is not strong enough to halt hairloss but why don't people use it along finasteride to get more promising results? And does it's long term use have any frequent side effects apart from skin thinning(which is an infrequent side effect)? Talking about Betamethasone valerate, Betamethasone dipropionate as they are more commonly used topical corticosteroids prescribed by dermatologists.
Why Don't People Use Topical Corticosteroids To Stop Scalp Inflammation To Reduce Hairloss?
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Chronic use of corticosteroids and side effects
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4228634/
One of them: Topical steroids are known to decrease skin elasticity.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4228634/
One of them: Topical steroids are known to decrease skin elasticity.
Lmao
I've been using it in very little amounts 2-3 times a week mixing betamethasone dipropionate and clotrimazole lotions together to form a combination, a night before washing my hair and I haven't came across any noticable side effect. I've been using it for more than a year now.
At first my thinning crown got fully thick on it(or maybe it got better due to the fact that I also had started finasteride) it remained thick for about 7 months but then it started to thin out again when I kept using it more.
It has not caused me any major noticable side effect. Now what I'm confused about is that I don't know if my hair density got better because of the topical corticosteroids or because of finasteride.
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Another reason topical corticosteroids are not often used is because they may affect hair growth in a negative way. Some, if not all corticosteroids decrease PGE2, which is often regraded as being important to hair growth. There may be other biological processes that affect the hair when using corticosteroids, which may positively OR negatively affect the hair.
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Corticosteroids were used in the pre Minoxidil and Finasteride days and are efficacious, particularly in immune related hair loss (of which male pattern baldness is sort of). The problem is it is not extremely specific--it blocks multiple immune chemicals, some of which may be positive for hair growth. So it may be good for an inflammatory situation (itching, burning, etc) and it decreasing the inflammation will be a net positive for hair growth but long term it is probably not a great treatment.
I try but hairloss is a very depressing thing.
I bet you now have long locks with this method lmao