mighty_johnny
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is there any chance emu oil can cause shedding, if its the only thing ur using, no propecia, no nothing, only emu oil.
does emu oil cause shedding
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Boru
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The company which ran trials on emu oil only claimed some success over only a 6 month period, which was probably not long enough as even finasteride/propecia/proscar usually take a year to begin working, reportedly. And it was an informal trial, so many in the group may, like me, have been using finasteride and ketoconazole and minoxidil etc. they just posted the bottles out to us, with a report form, and I only got 3 months supply, then it stopped! I wouldn't rely totally on emu oil, and some brands may be no good anyway. I use it after the minoxidil, which can sometimes cause a red patch. A combination of everything with some proven success rate is the best way to go. It just depends if you can stomach the finasteride drug for long enough. If you only use emu oil, the likihood is that shedding will continue, but for a few it might be the miracle switch that anecdote claims. Anyhow, good luck and keep trying.
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Boru:
I just read your regimen. Tell me your kidding me?!
Is your hair REALLY worth all that? I'm not trying to discourage you!
What Norwood are you? What has all that done for you? Im really interested.
Some people maintain their hair with just plain old EMU oil, why are you going to that extent?
I just read your regimen. Tell me your kidding me?!
Is your hair REALLY worth all that? I'm not trying to discourage you!
What Norwood are you? What has all that done for you? Im really interested.
Some people maintain their hair with just plain old EMU oil, why are you going to that extent?
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HairCoverage said:
I defend your right to imply that I my regimen seems a bit crazy-over the top at first reading. However, some of the prescription drugs and alternative medicines I use are for permanent medical conditions. Finasteride and others I have to take. I added the other complimentaries, and the oxygen treatments to improve chronic conditions. My breathing is better for it. I gave up smoking and bought an oxygen machine, which saved my life. When I noticed the new hair sprouting from my Norwood 7 scalp, of course I tried to improve the odds, with minoxidil etc. I only have a light covering of long hairs on top, but my girlfriend assures me that the vellus is getting more profuse. So for the benefit of mankind, and my own curiosity of course, I continue with a rather boring discipline, in the hope that my amateur experiment will make a difference to the understanding of the possible/impossible. Boring, but fun, when I see my progress from a hopeless case, to a hopeless romantic. Next year I will be 50, and living that long after a life of adventurous danger and surviving illness, will, I hope, culminate in a joyous party.
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Hey Boru..
Sorry if I offended ya mate. It ain't a great thing to hear you have to go through all that.. and I envy your motivation mate.
Keep it up.
Sorry if I offended ya mate. It ain't a great thing to hear you have to go through all that.. and I envy your motivation mate.
Keep it up.
my thoughts on emu oil
I looked at the other post about the test lasting 6 months, and I must point out that the percentage of hairs in anagen varies with the seasons, for unknown reasons. however, we know that this is true in cats too, who shed in the summer. For this reason, I'd not trust the results of a 6 month test unless they were astounding and on the 7:00 news. If you are going to take oils, take safflower seed oil, because it is 80% linoleic acid, the main fatty acid in oily sebum. When a sebum gland runs out of linoleic acid, it uses oleic acid instead, which makes a waxy sebum. While any hair can push its way through a waxy plug, hair follicles are the fastest way for topicals to enter the skin, and not having wax allows better Rogaine absorption to the tiny hairs that need it most.
I looked at the other post about the test lasting 6 months, and I must point out that the percentage of hairs in anagen varies with the seasons, for unknown reasons. however, we know that this is true in cats too, who shed in the summer. For this reason, I'd not trust the results of a 6 month test unless they were astounding and on the 7:00 news. If you are going to take oils, take safflower seed oil, because it is 80% linoleic acid, the main fatty acid in oily sebum. When a sebum gland runs out of linoleic acid, it uses oleic acid instead, which makes a waxy sebum. While any hair can push its way through a waxy plug, hair follicles are the fastest way for topicals to enter the skin, and not having wax allows better Rogaine absorption to the tiny hairs that need it most.
