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Hello everyone, i'm new here.
I was a finasteride user and i quit that drug because of the severe advere effects (still here after discontinuation, after six months) but this is not a post about the pfs, it's about my situation which, i suppose, is very common.
My first dermatologist made a huge mistake telling me that i have an androgenetic alopecia and giving me propecia, indeed i don’t have it. i took finasteride without having male androgenic alopecia but something different: my hair tend to be thin in the frontal area, where my skin is always red and itchy.
My latest dermatologist told me that i have something different, something called “low local estrone ipotrichia”, which means that in the frontal area my hair tend to become thin because of low local estrone. So this is why i’m putting a lotion on it.
i report from his website:
the causal factor is the deficiency, either in the production or in the action, of estrone by the hair bulb; the estrone is a hormone that is erroneously considered to be of the female type, being also produced by the testis; at the level of the hair, the estrone is the antagonist of testosterone, because if the second pushes the hair to the telogen phase, ie shortens its cycle until the fall, the first causes the hair to maintain its anagen phase and therefore the physiological duration of its cycle.
This hormone is one of the chemical messages, along with hydrocortisone and glycogen, that the hair in fall sends to its successor, inside the hair follicle, so that there is a change. It is therefore an important input that the new hair must have to face its entire growth phase. It follows that if the hair is lacking in the production or in the uptake of this mediator, a fundamental fuel for the life of the hair is missing, which then is faced with this deficiency at first thinning, then saving some important structures (eg the sheaths), and then falling earlier or more than usual. The areas affected are different from those of androgenetic alopecia, being a pathology not related to androgenic damage, and therefore the extron - sensitive areas will be affected: the frontal and upper area of the scalp.
He gave me a lotion for that, a lotion which contains 1% progesteorne, 0.02% estrone, 0.04% hydrocortisone butyrate, assuring me that this would only act locally and not systemically.
Now, what if he’s wrong? And that’s not all.
Currently i started thinking something: what if the problem is just… inflammation? In that area my skin is always red, hot, itchy… what if my hair get thin because of inflammation? what if while fighting pfs i can save my hair as well just treating the inflammation at it’s root?
When i thought this, i sent an email to my dermatologist (a very important one in the whole country) and to another very important dermatologist asking them:
of course, in this situation, i don’t trust doctor’s so much.
i know this can sound very stupid seeing what’s happened to me but i feel that i can fight pfs and my strange shedding as well.
doctors tend to cure the symptoms, not the causes.
any idea?
I was a finasteride user and i quit that drug because of the severe advere effects (still here after discontinuation, after six months) but this is not a post about the pfs, it's about my situation which, i suppose, is very common.
My first dermatologist made a huge mistake telling me that i have an androgenetic alopecia and giving me propecia, indeed i don’t have it. i took finasteride without having male androgenic alopecia but something different: my hair tend to be thin in the frontal area, where my skin is always red and itchy.
My latest dermatologist told me that i have something different, something called “low local estrone ipotrichia”, which means that in the frontal area my hair tend to become thin because of low local estrone. So this is why i’m putting a lotion on it.
i report from his website:
the causal factor is the deficiency, either in the production or in the action, of estrone by the hair bulb; the estrone is a hormone that is erroneously considered to be of the female type, being also produced by the testis; at the level of the hair, the estrone is the antagonist of testosterone, because if the second pushes the hair to the telogen phase, ie shortens its cycle until the fall, the first causes the hair to maintain its anagen phase and therefore the physiological duration of its cycle.
This hormone is one of the chemical messages, along with hydrocortisone and glycogen, that the hair in fall sends to its successor, inside the hair follicle, so that there is a change. It is therefore an important input that the new hair must have to face its entire growth phase. It follows that if the hair is lacking in the production or in the uptake of this mediator, a fundamental fuel for the life of the hair is missing, which then is faced with this deficiency at first thinning, then saving some important structures (eg the sheaths), and then falling earlier or more than usual. The areas affected are different from those of androgenetic alopecia, being a pathology not related to androgenic damage, and therefore the extron - sensitive areas will be affected: the frontal and upper area of the scalp.
He gave me a lotion for that, a lotion which contains 1% progesteorne, 0.02% estrone, 0.04% hydrocortisone butyrate, assuring me that this would only act locally and not systemically.
Now, what if he’s wrong? And that’s not all.
Currently i started thinking something: what if the problem is just… inflammation? In that area my skin is always red, hot, itchy… what if my hair get thin because of inflammation? what if while fighting pfs i can save my hair as well just treating the inflammation at it’s root?
When i thought this, i sent an email to my dermatologist (a very important one in the whole country) and to another very important dermatologist asking them:
- if the cause is just inflammation, why don’t we remove the thing that is causing the inflammation? is it an allergy? what it is? let’s remove the cause and we would have solved the puzzle. after the terrible experience with finasteride, i don't want to tax again my sistem.
- you claim that there is not systemic absorption: would you please prove it?
of course, in this situation, i don’t trust doctor’s so much.
i know this can sound very stupid seeing what’s happened to me but i feel that i can fight pfs and my strange shedding as well.
doctors tend to cure the symptoms, not the causes.
any idea?
