Fox243
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Concentration and dosage are basically equivalent. Density shouldn't really matter. All that matters is concentration times dosage which is equal to amount injected.
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It's quite strange ngl. We're already above the ideal dosing for pigs and the vert study showed that higher dosages are not as good once ur at the ideal dose. I guess there's some difference in humans and pigs, but I wouldn't expect it to be large.
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Can you show me the citation where they were confident of the revision of old scars? I don’t remember reading that tbh.
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The skin there didn't initially even have hair though, so I don't think it would reproduce hair. Also, this drug isn't that expensive -- off-label is probably 1k a patient or so.
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Maybe but there’s definitely a lower probability of that working, so why take the risk rather than ask for Verteporfin and pay an extra $1k.
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Honestly, I do feel quite bad for people who are still getting transplants after seeing vert's results. Imagine possibly ruining your chances for unlimited donor hair. I would instantly cancel or at the very least tell my doctor I'm not getting a transplant without vert. But everyone has their own choice.
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He's an amazing, caring doctor. I'm glad to have met him.
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Oh dang that's huge. You can just ask Dr. Barghouthi if you want to use verteporfin and I'm sure he'd say yes. Honestly, i don't think anyone should be getting a HT without vert at this point -- we at least are confident that it won't hurt and most likely helps a lot.
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Unfortunately, they only seem to service in India.
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I think they don't like threads to external websites. Personally, I think links to other websites that are hair-related and don't scam the consumer are fine, but it's their choice I guess.
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This has caught attention on reddit too now haha:
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We are waiting on people to spread verteporfin to their doctors to either contact Melvin or me (gargnim01@gmail.com) to help them onboard. Here is an onboarding doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s3JkF9woMIebkXbpE_UxrjBfNy9i7AuBclDqn9HGrAo/edit
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Not that I know of. Honestly, I'm not sure if a scar revision would work. The literature doesn't share any info about its possibility or lack thereof. For now, we need to at least prove it works on virgin skin before expanding to other things.
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You probably need to produce controlled wounds on the level of an FUE -- so there's a cost to that. We don't know what kind of skin the wounding will produce -- will it produce skin with the follicles already having been damaged by DHT? Probably not, but we just don't know and it's more important to first establish vert works the way it's meant to, and not introduce additional variables that may fail and dampen hopes.
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the former two shouldn't be wasted with a doctor imho. any individual who cares enough about those can try it themselves. i would try it but i'm not interested in recipient site wounding anyways because those hairs are likely not dht resistant.
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fwiw, Dr. Pittella said he's fine with using generic verteporfin. I had sent his nurse links to medchemexpress and selleck, which have facilities in Brazil. Unfortunately, he doesn't have an international import license, so I'm not sure if he can ship from Germany to South America. No, he uses verteporfin
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Ah I guess I'm referring more to under the chin as opposed to on the face. And yeah, wouldn't want all of it to be moved -- but would be fine with a thinner beard look.
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Why do you think taking out beard graft "massacres" the face? I heard the scarring from removing beard grafts is close to nothing. I, for one, am hoping for my HT clinic to abuse my beard bc all that matter to me is the hair on the top of my head, but I want to understand why my view might be incorrect.
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I just had another doctor in Europe reach out to me about verteporfin. I will keep his name anonymous until he wishes to make it public. However, he also needs help with sourcing. Does anybody else have any ideas about places to source from? ideally we'd source visudyne, but if not, verteporfin from a very trusted place is fine as well.
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Selleck and medchemexpress are pretty reputable.
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Yes, visudyne is just the name brand, just as Propecia is the name brand for finasteride.
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Yeah, I added it to the links section but honestly it's going to be hard to have someone read a 300 page doc
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It's $1800 for visudyne, but vert itself is quite cheap: https://www.medchemexpress.com/Verteporfin.html
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Amazing, thank you! Will put in the bloxham 3 month update into the doc when he shares it as well.
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The issue is that the sourcing and pricing really depends on the region, but I gave an estimate on pricing.
