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Kara - thank you again for your response. One more quick question for you - did you start with the 5% foam? Are you using it 1x a day? My father is in town for Easter and he and I just had a very l...

Kara welcome! Although I am saddened to hear that you are still having hair loss, I am glad to have another female on the boards to speak with. Like you, I have tried about everything under the sun ...

I was actually already on the pill before I started Accutane - BUT, i ended up switching brands in Sept (because I had read that my brand wasn't "hair friendly" - needless to say, I hated the new pill...

Lamarr - I told him about this web-site and about how some people have been diagnosed with diffuse AA - he agreed that he has definitely seen it in some patients (although he said it was "rare") - he ...

I, too, went to a new derm yesterday. At least this one admitted that Accutane, indeed, causes hair loss and that in his experience most people do recover, but he did let me know that some of his pat...

Fish Oil contains a ton of Vitamin A in it - not good for us with Accutane hair loss. Evening primrose oil usually is only effective if you are losing your hair because of thyroid problems (hypo).

All -   Do you think that the best solution is to start Rogaine? I have held out for 10 months without doing so. Would love to hear the group's thoughts. Remember - I'm a female and still want...

Schindler,   How long have you been using the Spectral DS product? Did you see it has Retinol in it? It looks good b/c it doesn't contain minoxidil (I'm still holding out here). Isn't that a V...

I need this hair shedding to stop. I am about ready to hit the 10 month mark and I am literally losing my mind. I am still shedding about 500 hairs a day. I am a female and this is destroying my se...

Blaze - did you get shots? do you think that is the reason why you stopped shedding?

Blaze - did you quit the Rogaine? What vitamin are you taking? Remind me again how long you have been shedding for? I'm beginning to think we all have to at least give it a year.

I will be on my 9th month of shedding on 2/15. I have had some lower days of shedding (i.e. 100 hair vs 400 hairs), but then for a few days it will pop up again. I never tried Rogaine (I'm a girl an...

Mikey - I was on it for ONLY 6 WEEKS!!! My dosage was 40mg for 5 weeks and 60mg for 1 week (I'm 127 lbs) (that's when I noticed the hair shedding and freaked out and quit) and now have been shedding ...

Thanks for sending Mark. Keep your fingers crossed about the balding for me. I have lost 40% of my hair, haven't worn it down since June and had to buy extensions to even keep it up in a ponytail (b...

Lamar - do you think the topical steroid is working b/c your scalp had bumps all over it and it was irritated? My scalp is just ITCHY (emu oil shampoo has calmed it recently). I feel like my derm is...

Yvette,   I actually took a round of Accutane back in 2003 for 6 months and I literally did not break out...ever...after that course. I started breaking out again in January (mainly on my back),...

Yvette,   Good to hear you have had results from the Keratase vitamins. I have actually been taking them for about 6 weeks now with no results...yet. I'm still going to keep my fingers crossed....

Andy-do you think the Rogaine has helped you at all? I literally cannot take this hair shedding anymore. I still lose about 300-600 hairs a day and have about 50% of my hair left. I am beginning to w...

Thanks Andy - it is INSANE how much I am analyzing everything I eat and put into my body these days since I'm almost at 7 months and still shedding like a cat.

What are your thoughts about eating too much beta-carotene/vitamin a in diets? I eat a TON of spinach on a daily basis - is this a problem? I think i'm paranoid about everything now...

Lamar - how much taurine do you take on a daily basis?   BTW- I don't know if you all noticed this, but this study is actually from the January 2008 publication - great news is that it is VERY re...

Very interesting study I just found - background here - Keratase has a new vitamin they recently started selling in the US called Densitive (formerly known as Innovex in other countries) - the main in...

Blaze - any way you can PM me? I would love to get that girl's email address since I really want to talk to her directly.   JNT - glad you ordered from Dr. Shah as well (so did I). Did you hear...

Dolph - thanks for such a great update! Congrats!!!   Also - just noticed that Blaze updated his info from Dr. Shah - i, too, received an email from them this morning saying: "Accutane has a rar...

One more thing - wanted to post an article that someone sent me from another site when I was freaking out about losing short hair as well:   This article might be reassuring:   3. In a thir...