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Re: vaniqa use and results
From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:26:04 -0600 (CST)
Actually, the active ingredient in Vaniqa is a low dose of a drug used
in chemotherapy (which causes the hair to fall out). Which is why if
you stop using the cream, the hair comes back (just like chemo).
At Thu, 15 Mar 2001, robyn wrote:
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>At Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Zowie wrote:
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>>I have a really stupid. If testosterone causes the hair growth, then
>>how can a cream form of it get rid of it??
>>
>I'm not sure about this, but here's my attempt at an explanation. :)
>
>Everyone has testosterone in their bodies - in most women, the estrogen
>and testosterone balance out. That's why some of the women with PCOS
>don't suffer from the acne, hair growth, or hair loss that the others of
>us do. We just have an imbalance, and that makes the effects of having
>it more pronounced. The excess testosterone in our bodies is considered
>to be "free testosterone". I believe that the testosterone on our
>scalps is considered to be DHT (or something like that - different from
>the free testosterone) and the hair follicles react to that, causing
>hair loss, or lack of hair growth. That's why things like rogaine work
>- that product removes the DHT from the scalp, thus enabling the hair to
>regrow or at least stop falling out. I think that this cream is acting
>almost like a reverse rogaine - it's making the hair stop growing or
>fall out. And, just like if you stop using rogaine on your scalp your
>hair will start to fall out again, if you stop using vaniqua on your
>face, the hair will start to grow again. That's also probably why the
>cream can cause side effects like acne - the testosterone probably
>causes it.
>
>Again, I am not sure about this at all, but it's my explanation. :)
>Maybe someone else will know...
>
>--
>Robyn
>
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