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Has anyone had any success with Latisse for eyebrows or eyelashes?
My doctor prescribed Latisse for my eyebrow loss due to alopecia areata. I am debating whether it is worth the cost of getting it filled as I have never heard of anyone with AA having any success with it. Has anyone actually had decent growth of eyebrows or eyelashes from Latisse?
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Permalink Reply by myem on
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Instead of Latisse($120), ask your doctor for Lumigan($30.00). Most insurance companies pay for the Lumigan. Latisse comes with disposable brushes, a fine dollar brush Michael's will serve the same purpose. Each bottle has about 60 drops, q-tips absorb too much of the medicine.
Don't be shy about asking your doctor for free samples. My daughter's doctor gave us a six-month- supply for her eyelashes.
Good luck!
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Permalink Reply by Starshine on
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Thanks, I will ask my doc for the Lumigan instead. $30.00 sure beats $120.00. Has your daughter had any regrowth yet?
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Hi starshine, did you ever try the latisse for your eyebrows? Mine are falling out badly now, I have diffuse aa on my scalp and thinning/patchy everywhere else except arm hair. I am probably the most distraught about my eyebrows. I started rogaine about five wks ago but stopped because it was making the seborrheic dermatitis on my eyebrows worse. I have read mixed reviews about success with rogaine or latisse on the eyebrows.
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Hi DM. I have the Rx for Latisse but have not tried it yet. My derm was not sure it would work on eyebrows and it costs 115.00 for a small bottle and you have to keep using it. Still, it may help, I just dont know. I also have diffuse AA and lost both brows. They have come back a little, but are very light in color. I am on oral steroids now and that has helped. I also use rogain and protopic on them.
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Thanks starshine. Did you get the shots in your eyebrows? I did twice and they looked darker but a month after the second one they started really falling out. Does the rogaine make your eyebrows dry and flaky? I have used protopic and hydrocortisone on them but afraid to continue due to skin thinning. I always wondered if steroid creams thin the skin don't the steroid injections make it thin more? Are you on prednisone? Do you think that helped to make your hair grow back, and are you losing body hair too?
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I did and still do get shots in my brows. I think they help initially, but they may not stay. I have not noticed any thinning of skin in the brow area and have had a lot of injections.. I also lost body hair or it thinned a lot including private areas. My derm finally put me on prednisone and methotrexate and after being on them for 8 weeks, I am starting to see regrowth of body hair and scalp hair although it is very fine and white. I am still on Methotrexate and get some injections to maintain growth. I lost about 60 percent of my hair over a years time and what is left is very thin. I use rogain on my scalp and brows. I dont think it makes it dry, but I dont know if has helped my brows either. As for latisse, Deana may be right in that it just makes the existing hair last longer. Even my derm did not know if it would regrow hair, but some people have said it does. I guess the only way to know is to try it, which I probably will if they dont thicken up My derm said eye color change is extremely rare and you would have to get it in your eye for it to even be a possibility.
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Thanks starshine. I hope your regrowth continues. Do you have itching with the hair loss? Everywhere I itch I lose hair...privates, nose, legs...stinging at the eyebrows, pricking at the lashes..scalp itch is a lot of times unbearable, only clobetasol lotion calms it temporarily..one derm told me it wasn't AA because 95 percent of the time there's no itch. But the hair loss doc told me if I'm losing hair on other places plus the scalp it"s AA...diffuse AA is difficult to diagnose, no patches just major shedding everywhere. Not sure if there's a diffuse AA group on this site.
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A diffuse AA group is a great idea. I do not think there is one on here either. I am sure we could start one, but I am not sure how. You could have a scalp biopsy to confirn AA. It is easy and does not hurt. how much scalp hair have you lost and how long have you had AA? I have never had much itching, just a burning sensation at first on areas where I lost a lot of hair. Are you getting any treatments now?
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Hi starshine, I had a scalp biopsy and there was no inflammation or scarring around the hair follicles and because I'm losing it everywhere the doctor said its diffuse AA and not chronic telogen effluvium. Did your biopsy show inflammation? Because what I'm reading is that AA has inflammation, would it show up on the biopsy? The itching started Mar 2011 and the hair loss began May 2011. Took more than a year to get a proper diagnosis. I've done the lotions and steroid shots but reluctant to do dcp or prednisone. I'm doing chinese medicine now.Did you get the burning sensations on your eyebrows too? At this point I've lost 60 percent of my scalp hair, have probably 50 percent of my lashes and 25 percent of my eyebrows. When you were shedding did you get regrowth as well? Mine falls out and grows but after a year and a half now the growth has stopped considerably and the shedding continues. I just don't know how long this hell will last, I'm reading that people that have patches of loss it seems the shedding period isn't this long, I guess with diffuse AA it's different. It's so hard because even though we both have diffuse AA, growth patterns and symptoms are different too!
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Permalink Reply by Deana on
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I believe the Latisse keeps existing hairs in the one of 3 stages of hair growth that allow the hair to get longer before it reaches the stage of falling out (which all hairs eventually do). That is the reason for longer and thicker lashes. They just hang around longer. I don't believe that the product can produce new hairs in an empty hair follicle. It could be possible to have new hairs produced by taking lots of biotin. That is what I was told by my endocrinologist. As of right now, my eyelashes and eyebrows are in the process of growing. Not 100% sure of the reason.
Also, I have tried Latisse with no results... but it can change your eye color and it burned my eyes.
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My biopsy did show inflammation and miniaturization of follicles. I did not get burning in my brows, but they fell out very fast, almost overnight, and I still had a lot of hair at that time. My AA started the same time yours did. The progression has been painfully slow and the only thing I found to stop it has been the drugs. I did have some regrowth while shedding, but it either did not stay or the shedding was way more than the growth. Diffuse AA seems to be very different than the patchy type which usually resolves much quicker. I wish I had more answers for you, but I am also still struggling with this nightmare and also wonder if it will ever end. I wear a topper now because my hair is so thin and ugly. Some people think it is diet related, but my derm does not think so. What chinese meds are you doing?
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I get these pouches of blended herbs from the chinese doc, I drink it twice a day (its disgusting!)-have been doing this for over a month but he said it will take time to rebalance the body. If that doesnt work, I might try the prednisone. I am reading a lot about these anti-inflammatory diets, seems like people on here have had some success from them. I think I got this from an allergic contact dermatitis or from a high fever and chickenpox I got a few months before. Do you know what may have caused it for you? I have been really depressed about this now for over a year, and I pray everyday that maybe today will be the day that it stops. I don't talk about it with many people anymore because you just get the same answers-"its just hair" or "it could be worse"- wonder if they would say that if this was happening to them. I will let you know how the chinese herbs go- I pray for you and everyone out there who is suffering from this.
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