I’ve been using Propecia for 10 years with good results. The company I order Propecia from forgot to send my order. As a result, I’ve gone three days without Propecia and will probably have to go another week or so without it (i.e., 10 days without it). Am I going to experience noticeable hair loss before I get my shipment of Propecia? I am so ticked off!
I wouldn’t expect any noticeable problems. Missing a few days (up to a week or so) should not have any detrimental effect with respect to your hair, because there is some tissue fixation of the drug that will help keep the benefits flowing for up to 10 days. It generally takes a few months of not taking Propecia to notice “catch-up” hair loss.
Dr Rassman,
As I can see from the board you are currently getting hammered with unknown questions regarding ACell possibilities prematurely before your own trials are done. That being said, here is another from a former patient to add to the lists of unknowns but to try and get a gage on your thoughts and opinions. If you pluck a hair from the back of the head with Acell the hope is that it will grow another hair and thus multiplying the donor area indefinitely. However, as you currently transplant hairs via strip or FUE it is done by dissecting the hair in their natural “clusters”…1-4 hairs.
With Acell is it your opinion that if you pluck a hair that it will only grow back one or that the genetic makeup will replicate where it was pulled from i.e. if you pluck from a 4 hair follicular unit it will replicate 4 hairs or are we to believe that this Acell procedure will be limited due to the fact that you will only be able to transfer hair as single 1 hair follicular units?
Thanks for your time
In theory, you get one for one. We pluck one hair at a time, not a full follicular unit. So when that single hair is re-implanted with just enough biological tissue on it, the ACell extracellular matrix should theoretically give it new life elsewhere on the scalp.
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