Regular Member sansi Posted March 11 Regular Member Share Posted March 11 @Killian hope your healing goes well. It seems you are planning to have another surgery in few weeks. A huge petition from this this community, please consider punching few older FUE scars and injecting verteporfin. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member bigmistake Posted March 11 Regular Member Share Posted March 11 5 hours ago, sansi said: @Killian hope your healing goes well. It seems you are planning to have another surgery in few weeks. A huge petition from this this community, please consider punching few older FUE scars and injecting verteporfin. Seconded. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Killian Posted March 11 Regular Member Share Posted March 11 8 hours ago, sansi said: @Killian hope your healing goes well. It seems you are planning to have another surgery in few weeks. A huge petition from this this community, please consider punching few older FUE scars and injecting verteporfin. Wow wow wow where is this coming from? This is not true. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member sansi Posted March 11 Regular Member Share Posted March 11 3 hours ago, Killian said: Wow wow wow where is this coming from? This is not true. From Youtube comment "I think I'll be back in the chair soon, give me a few weeks :)" Sorry if I am mistaken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Killian Posted March 11 Regular Member Share Posted March 11 27 minutes ago, sansi said: From Youtube comment "I think I'll be back in the chair soon, give me a few weeks :)" Sorry if I am mistaken. Hahahah yeah to make videos I meant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Jackson Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Killian- from you healing experience do you think verteporfin injected into the receipent area could reduce the redness post transplant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member sansi Posted March 11 Regular Member Share Posted March 11 46 minutes ago, Killian said: Hahahah yeah to make videos I meant I apologize. But whenever you are in the surgery chair, please remember our petition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Killian Posted March 11 Regular Member Share Posted March 11 1 hour ago, Rick Jackson said: Killian- from you healing experience do you think verteporfin injected into the receipent area could reduce the redness post transplant. I think it's playing with fire, what's the effect of injecting this around implanted grafts - unknown. A very small test would be needed first. I honestly wouldn't like to even speculate in fear of someone doing it. Even in my own donor, while it's healing great, god knows what will be the downstream effect. Only time will tell, it's all experimental and inconclusive atm. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Dragonsphere Posted March 11 Regular Member Share Posted March 11 15 hours ago, sansi said: @Killian hope your healing goes well. It seems you are planning to have another surgery in few weeks. A huge petition from this this community, please consider punching few older FUE scars and injecting verteporfin. This would be interesting, especially for those of us who have already had FUEs in the past. Dr Bloxham's patient regenerated hair in a revised FUT scar so it is likely, if not certain, that you would see similar results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member bigmistake Posted March 11 Regular Member Share Posted March 11 (edited) 5 hours ago, Killian said: Hahahah yeah to make videos I meant If verteporfin does work on your FUT scars, then do considering rewounding some of your old FUE scars (like how doctors make slits in the recipient) and injecting verteporfin in them. Edited March 11 by bigmistake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Killian Posted March 11 Regular Member Share Posted March 11 1 minute ago, bigmistake said: If verteporfin does work on your FUT scars, then do considering resounding some of your old FUE scars (like how doctors make slits in the recipient) and injecting verteporfin in them. Honestly I'm not even going to think about these things now. I just want to see the present donor outcome first. I do also strongly suspect that we will see a mixed matrix of scar tissue and normal skin appendeges. Which would be amazing. I don't think this is a silver bullet though, I think it will possibly be a component/improvement of the process going forward. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Nikoni Posted March 11 Regular Member Share Posted March 11 18 minutes ago, Killian said: Honestly I'm not even going to think about these things now. I just want to see the present donor outcome first. I do also strongly suspect that we will see a mixed matrix of scar tissue and normal skin appendeges. Which would be amazing. I don't think this is a silver bullet though, I think it will possibly be a component/improvement of the process going forward. Seems YAP inhibition is silver bullet as proved by Harvard scientists. Is verteporfin good enough, that's the unknown. Still everything we saw so far is pretty promising (the pig trial, the guy who tried it on cheek and nose, Dr. Barghouthi's trial, Longaker filed for patent for wound healing and hair regeneration via YAP inhibitor (Verteporfin) ). 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member bigmistake Posted March 11 Regular Member Share Posted March 11 2 hours ago, Killian said: Honestly I'm not even going to think about these things now. I just want to see the present donor outcome first. I do also strongly suspect that we will see a mixed matrix of scar tissue and normal skin appendeges. Which would be amazing. I don't think this is a silver bullet though, I think it will possibly be a component/improvement of the process going forward. Even reduced scarring is a big win. Thanks for putting your hair and health on the line for this one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Nikoni Posted March 12 Regular Member Share Posted March 12 hi @Melvin- Admin, would you consider talking to @DrTBarghouthi to see if he would be open to another podcast. It seems some things are happening in the background , so would be great to have some fresh info. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Melvin- Admin Posted March 12 Author Administrators Share Posted March 12 I Will reach out and ask him to do another podcast. I believe he might be presenting his work at the WFI conference. 5 I’m a paid admin for Hair Transplant Network. I do not receive any compensation from any clinic. My comments are not medical advice. Check out my final hair transplant and topical dutasteride journey: View my thread Topical dutasteride journey Melvin- Managing Publisher and Forum Moderator for the Hair Transplant Network, the Coalition Hair Loss Learning Center, and the Hair Loss Q&A Blog. Follow our Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, and YouTube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member eze Posted March 14 Regular Member Share Posted March 14 On 2/22/2024 at 4:15 PM, Killian said: Just an FYI to all, Dr. Saifi does not offer Verteporfin. This is privately funded by my own pocket and head 😅 Can you please tell us where to get verteporfin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damnyoudht Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 10 hours ago, eze said: Can you please tell us where to get verteporfin? 2nd that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Dragonsphere Posted March 14 Regular Member Share Posted March 14 8 hours ago, damnyoudht said: 2nd that 3rd that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member bigmistake Posted March 14 Regular Member Share Posted March 14 No update from Dr Barghouti and Dr Bloxham. I guess it's not working the way we hoped for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Jonathan Posted March 15 Regular Member Share Posted March 15 Wait until begining of May, if by then there’s no updates by Dr B I say we can reasonably demand for a refund and get it allocated to a different hair transplant surgeon that’s more interested in Verteporfin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Fox243 Posted March 15 Regular Member Share Posted March 15 34 minutes ago, Jonathan said: Wait until begining of May, if by then there’s no updates by Dr B I say we can reasonably demand for a refund and get it allocated to a different hair transplant surgeon that’s more interested in Verteporfin. first find a surgeon who is even willing to try lol -- at least Dr B did a trial. Even if he doesn't do another trial, ill just count the money he got this time as costs for the first trial he did. Without his initial trial, we wouldn't even have any hope. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Nikoni Posted March 15 Regular Member Share Posted March 15 (edited) 45 minutes ago, Fox243 said: first find a surgeon who is even willing to try lol -- at least Dr B did a trial. Even if he doesn't do another trial, ill just count the money he got this time as costs for the first trial he did. Without his initial trial, we wouldn't even have any hope. But the money was donated for the second more scientific trial. With 15k it would be much easier to find a surgeon. For less known surgeons that would be good money. Of course that is mostly donation of a single person and he should decide what to do. However I believe Dr. Barghouthi is still in the game, we just need better communication to avoid all the speculations. Edited March 15 by Nikoni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LL_boring_J Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 "We need to ask for a refund". Was it you that donated the 14.6k? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Fox243 Posted March 15 Regular Member Share Posted March 15 Ultimately, this is Arcturus's money, so only he should be the one who decides where the money goes. Second, there's no point having this discussion, unless someone can even convince a surgeon to try out verteporfin. Even if they were given the money, I doubt anyone here could find a surgeon willing to try verteporfin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member sansi Posted March 15 Regular Member Share Posted March 15 @Killian hi, hope everything heals well. I believe today is 4 weeks post op, anything notable to share ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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