Owen,

Great e-mail. Could you be so kind to elaborate upon the toxin cleansers you use.i.e., brand names. Also you said that you have more hair then you were 20. When did you start seeing hair growth.

Again thanks for the encouraging e-mail.

If I knew what I know now, I never would have used cortizone. Granted - I never received injections and I never used it on my scalp. But I have used it on my face for about 15 years off an on to treat red itchy skin. When you think about it, it's hilarious. I started losing hair when I was 19 (I'm 40) and had a lot of success slowing it with vitamins - also, I was so young and the hairloss so minimal that there was no reason to get overly concerned about it - not for years.
I'd had seborea (sp? I know there's an h in there somewhere...)since I was younger that seemed to not be too bad, but I never liked it. Then, in my early 20's, one year, I had zit city visit me. I thought "15, 16, 17, okay maybe...but 21, 22, 23? No!" So I went to the doctor who prescribed me Tetracycline. It worked great - no more zits AND no more dandruff which I had then AND no more hair loss.
BUT - about a year into the tetracycline I started getting red, itchy skin. Cortizone to the rescue. My mom had some prescription stuff which I used and worked really fast. After that, I used the over the counter stuff which worked, just a bit slower. I used it for years. Went off tetracycline at 29 and all seemed fine. But still had the itch skin if I stopped cortizone for too long.
Over the years, my need for it has decreased VERY slowly until now I don't use it - especially in the last 6 months since I started colon cleansing, kideny cleanse and parasite cleanse and am about to do my first liver flush.
Once I started doing all these new things, no more itchy skin, but now that it's cleared - I guess it took awhile for me to notice, but the areas on which I used it (nose, especially the sides of my nose) are very damaged now. The skin is shallow, fragile, and does not look healthy. It is colored differently from the rest of my face and there are one or two small spider veins that appear.
Now I'm on the road to recovery in so many ways. I researched cortizone - what it does is mimic the body's healing process in a certain fashion. But basically what it does is STOP the body's immune cells in the area it's applied to. So whatever is causing the problem in that area - the body is no longer allowed to touch it - thus the symptoms go away. But this is NOT good for obvious reasons.
It's almost hilarious when you think of what's happened to me through the medical profession: 17 yrs. old, I have to have my gallbaldder removed. Doctors don't know or believe that this means your liver is very congested and is the real problem. So then soon after, I start to experience the hairloss and zit problems - a direct result of a liver that cannot function properly. I also ate tons of Sugar and crap which obviously didn't help. Then, instead of cleansing my liver, I go on Antibiotics to kill the bacteria that my body can't kill because it's overloaded. Then, the Antibiotics (6 years!) cause me to develop candida which I didn't realize until recently. The candida causes the red itchy skin, so I use the cortizone which damages my skin further and in fact PERPETUATES the itchy skin.
Finally, in the last few months, when my liver feels yucky all the time and I have dull pains under my rib cage, I find this site and others like it and start paying attention to everyhing. After just a few simple things, everything is improving! I mean EVERYTHING - hilarious!
At any rate, sorry to go off on such a tangent, but I'd stay away from the cortizone!