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To Benji (Hair Multiplication & Research)

posted by benji, 18.07.2008, 15:40

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» BTW, I am nervous about taking gefitinib. While most of the side-effects
» are simply annoying (acne, rash, diarrhea, etc.), there's one side-effect
» associated with its use called interstitial lung disease. It's a scarring
» lung disease. Particularly if you are Asian...about 3 Asians in 100 get
» this side-effect (3%), and it's fatal about a 1/3 of the time, which means
» for every 100 people who take gefitinib, one of them dies of this
» side-effect. The incidence is about 1% for other populations. Perhaps even
» more concerning is the speed at which this side-effect happens -- your
» lungs can start to scar within hours of the first dose, and within 48 hours
» the scarring can show up on CT scans. Within a week, you could be dead from
» it. Granted, this is a rare side-effect, but I always felt that 10 days use
» would avoid serious side-effects, but this is not true in the case of
» gefitinib.




Yikes, thats pretty heady stuff there. Perhaps I ought to order some Arava and try it first. :-|
One of the reasons I didn't fear the internal usage of these drugs was the ten day period. Its hard to imagine dying from ten days usage of anything-including chemotherapy.

I wonder if any of the other egf antagonists like erlonitib could be had via the internet?


I have a strong feeling that it will have to be a synthetic indication for this to work. I was reading about milk thistle the other night, and supposedly its metabolized pretty quickly (something like four hours).....The potato protien peptide might be something to look into if all else fails. I can eat a lot of potatoes....:-)



There are several variables that have run through my mind concerning the getfitinib regrowth photos. I have wondered if it might be alright to take it as soon as wounding is performed. I say this because the two regrowth photos are almost certainly the effect of sunburn. To imagine these folks had too much sun, and then just three or four days later just happened to start taking getfitinib seems statistically unlikely. It would "seem" biologically that if one was burned, and was on a egf-antagonist, that the dermis attempting to "heal" the epidermis would almost be forced to build hair follicles in response. Its something to ponder, but Im probably wrong for whatever esoteric, complicated, biological reason. I sure hope one of us has luck with this. Folks on this forum dont seem to realize (Hangininhthere) that HM has been worked on for many years now and might NEVER be viable enough to put much hair on a human head. I cannot see any other way besides a gene therapy that could put hair on a man's head. And even gene therapy would have to kick start long-dormat-collagen-encased vellus hairs that have suffered a great deal of immunological damage, etc. as another hurdle. I have an ugly feeling that if Follica or Acell dont work...................nothing might.


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