Why do patients keep seeing physcians and attempting radical treatments that could even endanger their health?
“When I first developed this, I never had any hair loss before and didn’t know anyone else with this. My derm turned me onto NAAF and the support groups, and when I first went to a meeting, I showed up guns a’blazing, ready to travel to the ends of the earth, spend every last dime, to find a cure or a successful treatment, and I couldn’t believe how others who have had this for longer could just sit there and calmly talk about wigs and make-up. I subsequently learned that they had been through my gung ho stage already and had reached acceptance.” Some of the medical interventions by one of our participants included; cortisone injections, prednisone, cortisone cream, PUVA, minoxidil, anthralin cream….. and among many others, DPCP. Another member of the list server just expressed his battle with alopecia…. He had a tug of war between hair loss and cortisone injections (with hair on the loosing side). Our member would and sit in the physician’s ofice, the Dermatologist would walk in,
“When I first developed this, I never had any hair loss before and didn’t know anyone else with this. My derm turned me onto NAAF and the support groups, and when I first went to a meeting, I showed up guns a’blazing, ready to travel to the ends of the earth, spend every last dime, to find a cure or a successful treatment, and I couldn’t believe how others who have had this for longer could just sit there and calmly talk about wigs and make-up. I subsequently learned that they had been through my gung ho stage already and had reached acceptance.” Some of the medical interventions by one of our participants included; cortisone injections, prednisone, cortisone cream, PUVA, minoxidil, anthralin cream….. and among many others, DPCP. Another member of the list server just expressed his battle with alopecia…. He had a tug of war between hair loss and cortisone injections (with hair on the loosing side). Our member would and sit in the physician’s ofice, the Dermatologist would walk in,
