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So I have found that when someone's alopecia has cleared up for the time being, they rarely go on alopeciaworld so the answers I get will be skewed towards people who have experienced no treatment that helps.
That being said, have any of you tried the following alternative treatments with any success?
1. Capsaicin rubbed on head (chili pepper)
2. Aromatherapy oils rubbed on head
3. Aloe Vera rubbed on head
I know these treatments only address the symptom rather than the underlying mechanism causing it, but hey that's what Xelanjs does and people don't seem to care. If these worked for me, I don't care if I have to put oil or pepper on my head ever night until I die if it means I have hair on my head. haha!
Anyway, I have read numerous studies on each of these treatments and the long term success rate for cosmetically acceptable regrowth (80% or more) is approximately 10% for each of these treatments. Because they have no side effects whatsoever, I'm giving them a try! I think, why not? It's cheap, easy, no side effects and gives me a small chance of getting my hair back.
Also if you're planning to try any of these treatments and want to talk about them with someone outside of this post, add me! :)
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Permalink Reply by nychead on
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good luck with it and i hope you keep us posted.
ive read that onion juice was known or speculated to assist in hair regrowth.
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Permalink Reply by Rach1992 on
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Thanks. Yeah thats another one I've read about. Also like he said, the injections aren't a cure. Trust me, I tried them for 9 months. Some people are lucky and have one incident and it goes away for a long time. Most people have relapses even with minor occurrences. However, of you find the root trigger (ie. Gluten or dairy, an intestinal parasite, etc) it's possible to put even AU like mine into remission for a very long period of time
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Permalink Reply by icarus on
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i am cured from that shit.
Cortisone injections is the best we have till now.
Severe cases are non-responding to injections though. If you try out injections and get no hair growth within six months you propably belong to this list.
It may resolve on its own.
I have heard of these remedies and might work but mostly on mild cases.
there is evidence that garlic gel works well with minoxidil
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Ive read in plenty of cases that cortisone injections work wonders but once you stop the injections there is rapid hair loss. can you confirm or deny with your experience using these injections?
are you still getting injections?
if so how long will you keep getting them?
thanks
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yeah I did injections for 8 months and they only worked a little bit during the time being (but it was really useless- they would put a shot in one spot, and a different one would fall out, then they would put a shot in the new one, and then the old one that grew in would be falling out already.)
It also causes bone marrow deficiencies after more than 8 months of using it. That's why I stopped. the doctor told me it was very unsafe after 8 months... so I do not recommend the shots at all.
Needless to say they're very painful as well (I got them in my eyebrows too and that was the worst- I've even had eyebrow tattoos since then but there's nothing as painful as steroids being injected into your eyebrows...)
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nychead, AA is unpredictable. Injections do help but it is not considered as a "cure"
Cure comes on its own with a bit of help from cortisone stuff. The mechanism of losing/growing hair is still unknown.
Some people have relapses whereas others dont.
Mild cases have minor possibilities for future relapse.
This goes in accordance with the good/bad prognostic factors. Relapses are a sign that something is wrong so we expect a more chronic version of AA.
Injections are said to last for 9 months.
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thanks for your info icarus
@rach how exactly will you apply these? this might be a dumb question but are you just going to do 1, 2, and 3 individually or will you mix all 3 at once and apply it that way?
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Good luck!
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Permalink Reply by catbert on
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Sorry to tell that there are plenty of "natural treatments" out there that seem odd for some reason. If you search in youtube for instance you will find some strange Indian mixtures with ginger, honey, lemon something. I really do not believe in any topical treatments that are not based on extensive research and development. I mean why bother about research if you can just mix onion extract to your conditioner and sell it as an anti hair loss product...
The only natural treatments that work for better hair growth (not against hair loss) are some supplements such as biotin and selenium, but even this will not help if you have AA.
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I'm talking about getting it together yourself- not buying snake oil. There has been research for aromatherapy and capsaicin for alopecia and it has been shown to help some people. These treatments are cheap and side effect free. With the capsaicin, you only buy two chili plants (10 bucks each) and with the oils it's a little pricier at $90-100 dollars for all the oils but the oils have been proven hrough research to grow at least some hair back with 50 percent of people who use rub it in their heads for 2 minutes a day for 7 months. It stimulates your hair follicles and works to grow back 80% or more of the haor of 10% of those who try it.
So, I've been trying the aromatherapy for a week now and I've seen new hair growth- some of it is baby hairs and I have new pigmented patches.
I have alopecia universalis so this isn't random hair regrowth either. Also my head used to itch before and it hasn't been itchy this past week at all. -
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