2020-06-03 04:00:292020-06-01 03:48:01Another Patient from Turkey with 4000 Grafts (Photo)
Another Hair Transplant Failure from Turkey (Photo)
2020-06-16 04:00:182020-06-04 19:41:44Another Hair Transplant Failure from Turkey (Photo)
Anti-Graying Pill — Go Away Gray
Hi,
I have recently come across with this product: Go Away Gray
Your remarks will be appreciated.
I have no experience with Go Away Gray (and this is the first I’ve read of it), but I invite my readers to comment if they do have experience with this pill that promises to make gray hair disappear. What I could find on it (aside from a ton of sites trying to sell it) was that the pill contains catalase, and a study from last year did find that gray hair was caused by the body’s lack of catalase production as we age. That isn’t enough to convince me just yet, but I am open to learning more about this and reading some actual reviews. You can read more about last year’s gray/catalase stories here and here.
CBS stations around the US picked up the story and ran it in their local markets, causing at least one TV critic to dig a little deeper into why the product is getting all this publicity (see here).
2010-05-13 12:56:542010-05-14 06:40:20Anti-Graying Pill — Go Away Gray
Antiandrogens
Dear Sir,
I am 32 years old male suffering from male pattern baldness. I ask you can I take antiandrogens for treatment of baldness? Looking forward to receive your answer.
Antiandrogen is a group of medications that block different forms of male hormones. What we generally recommend for treatment of male pattern baldness is finasteride, which is also classified as an anti-androgen in some sources. Finasteride blocks production of DHT (dihydroxytestosterone), which is one of the forms of testosterone that can affect hair growth in prone patients.
The typical antiandrogens can block testosterone. Although these medications are used for treatment of prostate cancer, they are not recommended for treatment of hair loss because of their numerous side effects. If you are a man using these antiandrogens for other medical conditions, they may positively affect your hair but may kill your sex life so you should not use them merely for treatment of male pattern baldness.
Antiandrogens may protect against covid
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32977363/
“Anti-androgens commonly used in the treatment of AGA such as finasteride, dutasteride, spironolactone, and bicalutamide could improve outcomes among men infected by SARS?CoV?2.”
We have known that men do worse than women when contracting Covid, with higher death rates. So this may help us understand the role of androgens in Covid
Anti-Nuclear Antibodies (ANA) and DUPA
Doctor, when a patient have DUPA, his/her ANF (Anti-Nuclear Factor) is positive? I have no balding parents nor relatives (until the 4th generation above myself), but I think I’m suffering DUPA and it began just after a heavy stressing period
The diagnosis of DUPA (diffuse unpatterned alopecia) is made by mapping out your hair and scalp for miniaturization. A good examination is critical. Hair loss in men comes about for four reasons:
- Genes
- Male hormones
- Stress (you seem stressed)
- Time (the longer #1-3, the worse the problem will become)
To avoid confusion, ANF and ANA are the same thing (see Wikipedia for more info). I am not familiar with a positive ANA factor as a participating cause of DUPA. Conditions like DUPA can occur with a variety of autoimmune diseases of which some of them may have positive ANAs.
2008-06-03 15:33:402008-05-29 15:29:48Anti-Nuclear Antibodies (ANA) and DUPA
Another Story of Gabapentin and Hair Loss
After 6 months of excruciating pain, I was prescribed gabapentin. I took this drug in January 2018 for nerve pain related to Herniated disc in C6 & C7. I took the drug for a month while waiting to get everything in order for disc replacement surgery. Then, the day of my last appointment before the surgery, I woke up pain free!!! No pain since. I could not believe how fortunate I was. Was it the drug? Did my body heal? I didn’t care as long as I was pain free. We postponed the surgery. If the pain returned, we would move forward. 2 months later, I still had no pain. Then, I noticed a little extra hair when I brush or wash my hair. It turned into hand fulls of hair! I had waist length, full bodied hair. So much that I fought to wrap a pony tail holder around my hair twice. It is June 2nd of 2018. I can now wrap a pony tail holder 6 times. Yes, 6 and it’s loose!!!! I touch my hair. I pull back loose strains. From May to June, I have lost an estimated 75% of my hair. If I had known this was a side-effect, I never would have taken this pill. There are other options. I have started taking folic acid in hopes it will trigger the hair follicles to begin regrowing.
I am assuming that you are a female. You need to meet with a doctor who specializes in hair loss. The figure 75% of your hair lost is more than I have ever heard. Without seeing you, I can’t give you an opinion.
2018-10-13 05:50:372018-10-10 12:21:38Another Story of Gabapentin and Hair Loss
Anxiety, Mood Swings From Propecia?
I have been talking propecia for about two weeks and I have been experiencing wierd side effects like anxiety attacks, feeling out of it, slight mood swings, etc. However, when I asked my doctor about it, he said that he had never heard of anything like it. There are a number of people online who have complained about similar side effects and I feel that these symptoms are a direct result of propecia. I was wondering if you had ever encountered any similar cases and if so will these side effects go away. Thanks
Finasteride blocks the conversion of testosterone to DHT. As a result, there will be a temporary increase in testosterone and changes in androgens as well which might (theoretically) produce side effects like those experienced by women with PMS. One of my patients had a real complaint like this and he was a very credible physician. When he stopped the Propecia the symptoms went away. Can hormonal imbalance affect mood swings? Possibly! Some patients have repored changes in the way they feel on Propecia and I have generally discounted these report but now I will make a note of this and watch for more patient comments and blog emails that bring this up. I aleady spoke to a Merck rep about it and hopefully the verbal report will work its way back to headquarters. If I hear more of these type of complaints, I will be more vocal on sharing this with you through this blog.
2006-04-19 16:19:182006-04-19 20:22:49Anxiety, Mood Swings From Propecia?
Any Bimatoprost Study Phase 2 Results Yet?
Doc
Have you heard anything or have any idea when the phase 2 bimatoprost studies will be out?
Happy new year to you and your staff.
You’re referring to the study comparing bimatoprost and minoxidil for use on the scalp, which completed the phase 2 a few months ago. The results haven’t been posted yet, as far as I can find.
Check it our at the ClinicalTrials.gov site — Safety and Efficacy Study of Bimatoprost in the Treatment of Men With Androgenic Alopecia.
Are Antibiotics That We are Taking, Slowly Killing Us?
In a Denmark Study, people who “redeemed five or more antibiotic prescriptions over the course of a 15 year period were much more likely to develop type 2 diabetes compared with those who took antibiotics’ only noe or two times. Other diseases were also appearing that may be the result of altering the bacteria in our intestine finding associations with “obesity, inflammatory and autoimmune disorders and even depression”.
Since the 1940s with the discovery of antibiotics, the focus was to kill all of the bad ‘germs’ in our body, but maybe we just killed off the good ‘germs’ in the process and without these good ‘germs’, we found ourselves with many other diseases. Children may have been over-treated causing more asthma and a tendency to obesity.
I have read much about the value of our ‘gut’ to help our immune system function properly. The learning curve is very steep at this time and it seems that in almost every medical journal now appearing, we are learning that our intestine is really a functioning part of our immune system, something I never learned in medical school.
I found myself being asked many times by patients to give them an antibiotic for a flu. I know it did not work against a virus, but the patients would demand antibiotics and although I may have been one of the few doctors who resisted such calls for antibiotics, I could not always stand my ground. So what I am telling you here is not to demand Antibiotics when you are not feeling well, as you might be harming yourself if you took them unnecessarily.
This was discussed in New Scientist, April 8-13, Pages 39-41.
2017-04-09 20:32:362017-04-09 20:32:36Are Antibiotics That We are Taking, Slowly Killing Us?