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Title: Cortizone 10 to stop beard hair growth?
Post by: Amy1988 on July 27, 2014, 04:31:28 PM
Ok just to let everyone know this is strictly hypothetical based on my own experience.  While I don't grow facial hair I do have pubic hair and I have been treating a very itchy patch in the pubic area with cortisone 10 maximum strength cream.  I started noticing that the area I was treating began to lose hair and now after months of treatment there is almost no hair in that area and no sign of any new growth.  There is just a little bald spot where hair use to be.  Could this be a remedy to stop facial hair growth? Has anyone else experienced anything like this with cortisone?
Title: Re: Cortizone 10 to stop beard hair growth?
Post by: mrs izzy on July 27, 2014, 05:58:04 PM
Hmm. They use cortisone shots to help hair growth but also hair loss with injections in the back.

So I would say that I would not risk it.

Title: Re: Cortizone 10 to stop beard hair growth?
Post by: Jessica Merriman on July 27, 2014, 06:34:15 PM
Sorry, it is an anti inflammatory. I does not stop hair growth.

http://www.drugs.com/sfx/cortizone-10-side-effects.html
Title: Re: Cortizone 10 to stop beard hair growth?
Post by: Amy1988 on July 27, 2014, 06:48:21 PM
Quote from: Jessica Merriman on July 27, 2014, 06:34:15 PM
Sorry, it is an anti inflammatory. I does not stop hair growth.

http://www.drugs.com/sfx/cortizone-10-side-effects.html

I wonder why it stopped the hair from growing in the area I was treating?  Bear in mind that I used it everyday until the tube was empty.
Title: Re: Cortizone 10 to stop beard hair growth?
Post by: Jessica Merriman on July 27, 2014, 06:58:43 PM
The Cortisone could have limited the blood flow to the area temporarily (anti inflammatory affect). The hair will return.  :)