I wanted to ask those with CTE if you also have burning and itching scalp and sensitivity around your scalp? I think this has to do a lot with stress and how it changes the gut, which impacts our immune system.

And as a general comment on here. I do believe PRP will help anyone with AGA or CTE. What this is doing is breaking up the fascia tissue fascia covers everything all muscles, organs, etc…. that is tightening around the scalp going into some sort of protective mode which in turn is suffocating the hair follicle. When the needles from PRP break the fascia up it allows the hair follicles to breath if you will, where the hair follicle is not completely destroyed. This worked so well for B because she has CTE which is probably being caused by the tightening of the fascia. Adding the massage manipulates this tissue and keeps it moving with blood, nutrients and oxygen. There are scalp massager out there electric ones that move the scalp (this isn’t just rubbing this is true massaging) and you can’t just massage an area for 5 seconds you must concentrate on all areas for at least 30 seconds and do it around 10 minutes a day. No doctor will tell you this because I don’t think they even realize it. The only way I know this is absolutely through God revealing things to me. I started having issues with my muscle fascia after slim lipo and I noticed that my body felt like my scalp deep burning itching etc…. bruised feeling. The thing they recommend for myofascial pain syndrome is needling/massage etc…. to keep this tissue moving. The needling breaks up the fascia so blood, etc…. can flow. If it is not address it can/ will cause an area to stop functioning; it is a nightmare but this was exactly the same thing I was feeling on my scalp! I got a scalp massager from Brookstone and my life changed. I told another lady who suffers from hair loss about she started using it and has positive results as well. Her shedding drastically reduced.

If you can’t afford PRP I highly recommend trying this. PRP for me seemed like the answer but I just couldn’t afford to maintain that kind of treatment. So I asked God to reveal another way, then one day I walk into brookstone with the light shining on the scalp massager. The one I’m talking about is made by different manufacturers etc…. but it is around $90 dollars. Hope this helps someone. It will hurt at first but just power through and it won’t be as bad.

B my right temple is extremely tight and I hold the massager there longer than anywhere 😉

New to the site. Would love to hear any updates. If you are still doing PRP and how it is going. I suffer from CTE as well and probably a bit of AGA at this point, so I’m very curious how this treatment has worked for you over the years. I had an episode of loss about a month ago, and no one understands why this is so devastating to the point where it consumes my thoughts and dreams allll day. Glad to find a place that provides such great support 🙂

Jay

PS. Your beautiful in all phases of your journey. If we could just see ourselves through others eyes. XO

Hi, Carlene – how’s it going now that you’ve had another treatment?

Y – yep, taking life as it comes! You’re a huge inspiration for me.

Andrea – I really don’t know if this is a life long follow up kind of thing and I’m not at the stage where I’ve asked as I still defintiely need the treatments and also, luckily, I live only a few hours drive from Dr. Greco so the distance is not an issue for me. I have had 4 treatments now and am scheduled for another one in April. I do believe that at this point, it’s a treatment that does require ongoing sessions, but I think I remember from my first appt with Dr. G saying that at some point maintenance appointments may only be required once a year. Just like with everything else, we are all just slightly different. I’m still in the every 5 – 6 months range depending on my travel schedule. Also, Andrea, honestly, I’ve had a few diagnosis at this point but after going through all of this now for 8 years and seeing how my hair behaves, I, now know my own situation better than any doctor. I get major bouts of CTE and yes, I suppose that at my age now, I have a very normal amount of slight AGA. AGA happens slowly with aging to most people and so I do think that now at the age of 41, of course my hair is not nor will it ever be when I was…. 28. That’s just life. But my major issue is CTE< which I now know that my mother has quite severely and my sister also exhibits sometimes. I actually cannot upload pics to this page and I would not be comfortable at all posting a pic on an open page that kinda makes me wanna puke every time I see it. I don;t know if you are a member of this site but said pic is buried in my old pics in my profile. You can also look up my first blog on this open page about PRP and see a difference in before treatment and after pics side by side. The difference is pretty obvious. I'll post a link to it separately after this post.

HI, Kathy – I'm very sorry to hear what you are going through and have heard shinges is an absolute nightmare. Are you better now? How's your hair doing?

@bayareagirl – see above about my own diagnosis but yes, I do know someone with AGA that has had incredible results with this treatment.

HI, Sylvia – When I say "bio" or "bio hair" I just mean the hair growing straight out of my head! After being a hair wearer for years now, there's just become a verbal distinction between my wig hair or helper hair and my bio. 🙂 The results above are after 14 months of treatment. As soon as post this comment, I will post the link to my first blog after PRP showing much earlier before and after pics.