Sunnybrook Clinic for Alopecia

Hi all:

I just stumbled across this social network and signed up right away. I was wondering if anyone has had treatment from clinic at the Sunnybrook Hospital - I have heard good things about it and just wanted to learn more. Is it true that you have to have a referral from your family Dr. to get in?

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Permalink Reply by Michelle on March 17, 2010 at 7:55am
what happened at your appt?
Permalink Reply by Michelle on March 19, 2010 at 10:47am
I forget the proper word but they put an irritant on your scalp so that your immune system attacks that and not the hair.
Permalink Reply by Michelle on March 19, 2010 at 10:48am
the treatment for alopecia areata involves applying irritating chemicals, such as anthralin Some Trade Names
ANTHRA-DERM
or other substances to the scalp to induce a mild allergic reaction or irritation. The irritation sometimes promotes hair growth.
Permalink Reply by Melissa on March 19, 2010 at 7:59pm
Hi Angela. I'm just finding your post now...months after. I saw a doc at Sunnybrook for DCPC treatments years back. I would go once a week and have my scalp painted with a substance that was similar to poison ivy. It was meant to give a reaction that would promote hair growth. Each week it would increase in intensity with the hope that eventually hair would regrow. I had 100 percent baldness so my chances weren't great.
I also had to drive a far distance to have these treatments and after a while I stopped them. It seemed crazy to me that I was willing to burn or severely agitate my scalp just to regrow hair so I stopped doing this and let myself be.
Have you checked out this clinic? Are they doing anything new other than DCPC? I don't think Sunnybrook had a formal clinic for alopecia when I was a patient.
Permalink Reply by Brandy Snap on March 19, 2010 at 9:30pm
When I did the DCP treatments it was first once a week, then once every two weeks for a few years. For the last two years (?) I was able to take the formula home with me and do the treatments myself (which they never do, but I was a loooong time patient). But since all coming out in October 2008 (because of my dad's stroke) I've had no regrowth since then. Because the DCP is supposed to create an allergic reaction, and I have allergies, when I did the treatment, the next day my eyes would be very swollen and I'd want to stay in for two days till it went down. Plus I couldn't take any allergy pills for a day or it would be counter productive to the treatment. To put it simply, for me, it was a form of torture and I'm not doing it again. >:(

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