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I've had no success with Propecia after about 16 months, so I'm thinking of trying dutasteride. How do people here obtain it? I've searched the archives but haven't found a straight answer. Are there reputable general practitioners who will prescribe it off-label, or is your only option to...

Oh yeah, been using Nizoral for a few months too. Dutasteride, well, I'm wary of using potent drugs for off-label purposes. Does anyone know is there's any correlation between finasteride non-responders and dutasteride non-responders?

Been on Propecia for about 16 months with no noticeable effects. Been on Xandrox 5% for about 5 months, with no noticeable effects, except maybe some darker fuzz on my temples. The front is retreating, I have a hole opening up in the back and on top, and it's thinning all around. What's left...

It's not "cloning." It's just culturing: taking your own cells, making them reproduce in vitro, then putting them back in. It's nothing so complicated as cloning.

DHT has androgenic and anti-estrogenic effects throughout the body. Supressing 90% of it could have all sorts of side effects.

When it works 83% of the time, it doesn't work 17% of the time. I've been on it for 11 months and noticed no effect. Time for minoxodil, I guess.

I don't think immunosuppressants are a good way to treat hair loss, nor do I think anyone needs to be jealous of a baby with Niemann Pick disease.

Smoking Slows Healing http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... owshealing

You should not smoke that crap for a few more weeks because if you do, you may get arrested for possession, then you'll have to spend a night in jail, and Paco will grab your hair while he does unspeakable things to you, ripping out all your transplants.

concealing small bald spot on vertex and/or hiding some frontal recession and a moderate amount of diffuse thinning? I tried some, and without dumping a half bottle on my head, I don't think it will help much. I'm guessing couvre or dermatch would be better for hiding a small bald spot and...

Treatments like follicle stem cell cultures and dermal sheath cell transplants seem to offer some hope. Maybe they'll be around within 10 years. They'd better be because I'll be nice 'n' shiny by then.

Four out of five dermatologists recommend it.

For the past several months, I've let my hair fall forward as it does naturally, what with the thinning and the shedding (glavin). It's about 1-1.5 inches long. Pros: hides recession a bit, top well-covered. Cons: bald spot on vertex, top looks "flat" compared to sides. Today I brushed it back...

Some say shaving a mostly-bald head is acceptance. I say it's denial. Who is right? None can say.