Its unlikely you will have thyroid problems because a relative had thyroid cancer. The biggest risk factor for thyroid cancer is radiation exposure. So I wonder if she was exposed or treated with radiation prior to her cancer.

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Dod,

All I will say is this. Revivogen does not have any published well-designed studies documenting its effectiveness. Propecia and Rogaine does.........hell even Nizoral has a few, but not revivogen.

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Ezontheeyez,

Sure, you have a chance at maintaining, but your chances would improve drastically with just propecia and nizoral (which you already use). Since you are at such an early stage propecia and nizoral would be as close to a guarantee as you could get.

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Sam, Regarding Proctors stuff, its one thing to have ingredients that have proven to reduce DHT or regrow hair, and its another completely different thing to show the entire product can regrow hair/reduce DHT. Revivogen takes full advantage of this fact, but revivogen itself has never been proven to...

Dr. Proctor's products have never undergone scientific scrutiny ie. FDA testing. Folligen is formulated by the same man that produced Tricomin. Tricomin was proven to regrow hair in the phase II trials of FDA approval.

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It isn't the minoxidil you are sensitive to, but the other inert compounds in the mixture. You should really consider using 5% because you will not be anymore sensitive to that than the 2%.

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I would suggest using propecia as this has proven results behind it. If you decide to stick with revivogen and minoxidil then you will be applying 3 topicals per day, and you will be more likely to be less adherent to your regimen.

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Wario, If you start using propecia and minox, you will almost be guaranteed hair regrowth, especially because of how young you are. There are alot of cheaper places to get propecia or you may look into obtaining proscar and splitting it into fourths. You could also get the generic variety which is r...

Melch, You should definetly get back on 5%. I don't believe anyone can tell you if there is such a thing as minoxidil tolerance because to date nobody knows the mechanism by which it works. What has been shown from the studies is that after a certain amount of time it will stop recruiting active fol...

Yes, topicals should still be effective if irritation is present. That said, the irritation should be dealt with and not tolerated.

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Certain prostaglandins are beneficial for different things, but aspirin blocks the synthesis of virtually all the prostaglandins.

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"Two studies [26, 27] using transgenic mice with overexpression of COX-2 in the skin showed directly contradictory results. Transgenic mice under the control of a bovine keratin 5 (K5) promoter[26] and human keratin 14 promoter[27] and overexpressing COX-2 in both the basal cells of the interfollicu...

Yo morph, Only one problem with prostaglandins and hair growth. Aspirin has also show the ability to regrow hair, and aspirin will inhibit prostaglandin production. From my knowledge, studies have been inconclusive as to the benefit of prostaglandins in hairloss. Some studies say it helps then other...