Month: August 2013

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My Mom’s Dermatologist Prescribed Clobetasol for Months and Her Hair Loss is Even Worse! – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

My mom’s hair was thinning a little. She went to see a dermatologist. The doctor prescribed Clobetasol ointment & Clobex shampoo. She was using these for 6 months straight. Her hair was falling out in clumps & getting a lot worse. The doctor kept telling her it takes time. Everything that I read about Clobetasol states not to use it more than 2 weeks. Would Clobetasol and/or Clobex make her hair loss worse? Please help.

Thanks!

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Heavy doses of Clobetasol (a corticosteroid) can cause hair loss, among other systemic side effects. If you are concerned about this treatment, I would ask your mother to seek another opinion by a physician you see face to face, not over the Internet. I do not know the diagnosis here, so I can not comment on the treatment plan.

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I Had No Problems with Propecia But If I Stop It Will I Have Post-Finasteride Syndrome? – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

hey doctor, amazing blog helping a lot of people…
i’ve been on propecia for a 14 months with min to no result. i’m 24 now. i had no problem staying on the drug and give it another 8 months since i didn’t experience any side effect hoping to see better results, until i read about post-finasteride syndrome and it had me worried. so just needed a clear answer from you doctor before considering stopping the drug. is post-finasteride syndrome a real thing?

thank you doctor

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This “Post-Finasteride Syndrome” suggests that there are persistent sexual, neurological, and physical side effects for some men when they stop taking the medication (Propecia). It sounds like it’s just a fancy name to wrap around the seemingly endless list of side effects that people on the internet are attributing to finasteride. The data that is available and the information I have from my own patients doesn’t sync up with the reports on the anonymous message boards.

Much of this seems to have stemmed from the hysteria created about a year ago based on a couple of published articles about men that were recruited from a Propecia complaint forum that were interviewed about their side effects. If it sounds ridiculously biased to you, then we agree.

If I am to understand this “Post-Finasteride Syndrome” correctly, it is for those that had side effects, stopped the medication, yet the side effects persisted. If you don’t have any side effects, I don’t think this applies to you. If you want to learn more about this, here is the other side of the coin — PFS Foundation.

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Does Temporary Hair Loss from Stress Regrow the Same? – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

Greetings Doctor!

If hair falls out from stress and then regrows, does it grow in the same way it did before? Or is it noticeably weaker or different character? I am just curious if you’ve witnessed this regrowth firsthand.

Thanks!

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If your hair loss is caused by genetic male pattern baldness and stress accelerates it, it rarely regrows. If it does regrow, it often is a weaker hair that has more miniaturization to it. If the hair loss is from other causes such as telogen effluvium or alopecia areata (as two examples), the hair loss with these conditions may reverse and the full character of the hair may return.

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Hair Loss InformationNot Hair Loss News – Over 96 Percent of Testicular Cancer Patients Recover – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

Snippet from the article:

Survival rates for the disease have risen by almost a third since the 1970s and more than 96 per cent of men who contract the cancer today are now cured. Fewer than 70 per cent of patients survived the disease 40 years ago.

Each year around 2,300 new cases of testicular cancer are diagnosed in the UK. Unlike many other cancers, the disease strikes at a relatively young age. It is the most common cancer in men aged 15 to 49.

The improvement in survival rates is in large part down to the use of the drug cisplatin, a chemotherapy drug also used to treat bladder, lung and ovarian cancers.

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Read the rest — Almost all testicular cancer patients now recover