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Permalink Reply by Karen Smith on May 7, 2012 at 10:28pm

Hi, The link does not work. Where did you hear about this treatment? Thanks for sharing it.

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Permalink Reply by divine_comedy on May 8, 2012 at 4:01am

Hi Karen!
The link works:
http://www.medicaljournals.se/acta/content/download.php?doi=10.2340...

Otherwise go to google schoolar and search for
"Inosiplex for Treatment of Alopecia Areata"

Good luck and let me know what you think.
Nuno

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Permalink Reply by Karen Smith on May 8, 2012 at 8:58am

Thanks. It looks hopeful from this study. Is your Dr. offering it to you? I do not know much about the drug and what it is commenly used for. The study is several years old and this drug is not being widely used so I am wondering why. Let me know what you find out.

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Permalink Reply by divine_comedy on May 8, 2012 at 9:27am

Yes, I have no idea of why the drug is not more seldom tried in alopecia. But it's a common drug, so to say, just google it and you'll see. Also the safety profile seems quite good. There are so many options and the research is so low that I would not be admired that some potential good drugs just go unnoticed.

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Permalink Reply by divine_comedy on December 8, 2012 at 6:15pm

I've given up with Inosiplex. No visible improvements after 4 months. It could be that my stage is too advanced for this drug, or it could be a dose related thing, or... Anyway, I won't try this again but I'll start another "experiment" with another drug called fumaderm (in Germany) or fumaraat (in the Netherlands), which is the commercial name of certain fumaric acid esters used for psoriasis in these countries. There seems to be good results, and recent, for alopecia areata. I'll give it a try.

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