Universal Hair & Scalp Clinic

misscpmfan

I have had alopecia for 9 months now and I was recommended to go to the Universal clinic on South Great George's St. Mixed reviews but in honesty more good then bad. I have huge patches and I have more forming now.
My treatment is for 10 weeks and my 3rd session is tomorrow. A friend of a friend recommended this place because she had lost all her hair and it returned during the course of the treatment from them.
Same with another lady I met who like me had been suffering with alopecia for months. It's an awful thing to have and unless you like being bald as a woman I would not wish it on my worst enemy.
Has anyone else ever been to this place? Some people say it's a hoax. If it works for some it can't be a hoax though.

tricky D

Alopecia is notoriously hard to treat effectively, relying much on trial and error/luck, so I would wary of being too judgemental. I wouldn't say it's a hoax, just very hit or miss.

It's a horrible thing to get and I can empathise with you situation. I started getting some myself at a time of extended high stress (family illness and death). It scared the bejaysus out of me but subsided, thankfully and hopefully for the long term, though some say it never really goes away fully.

misscpmfan

I have left that place now. I can't go anymore, its definitely not working for me, the place is hounding me for money and I have paid them €900 and they are getting me so down saying it won't grow back without the treatment. They even go about talking as if I have already paid for 10 more sessions without even asking which is really wrong in my opinion. They also are not nice at all if you tell them you can't afford to get more. When I left my end 10 sessions and said I would do my best to come get more, it wasn't good enough, they didn't even look at me when I was leaving. Then when I was getting treatment all the asked was when I could get more money to them and also saying "now don't be stressed just try and get money for your own sake".....Yea right!!! Don't be stressed my *ss.
The place is bad news and anyone whos hair grew back while going there it had to be pure luck.

I am so sorry I didn't see your post in time to warn you off that place. To say my experience was similar to yours. I actually have a form of alopecia that cannot ever be improved, but they still may be swear not to go to a hairdresser, or go to a specialist, until they had done their ten week treatment which was going to cost about €800. I never did, but yes they hounded me with phonecalls till I told them to stop.

I hope this post comes up in searches for the Universal Hair and Scalp Clinic on google now, so other people can be warned off early.

I know myself when I started to lose my hair I would have tried anything and paid anything to get it back; this company play on this.

PM me if you want, I have permanent alopecia myself and I am involved with Alopecia Ireland, as in know the people who started it and run it now. We're a great bunch! Don't feel alone!

misscpmfan

I actually have some peach fuzz on my scalp at last I know it's unpredictable anyway but it's something I hope! I'm so unhappy I went to that clinic, more for my parents because they paid for it and they struggled to too.

I too hope that clinic go down hill one day, they did nothing for me. Granted the staff were nice but one of the thricologist was no help and told me it would get worse and I had to keep getting more treatment

marykitty47

Oh ladies are you serious? im 29years old and my hair is falling out and I'm at my wits end. I was on aldactone for 7years wgich was helping but all of a sudden stopped working. I have had so many blood tests and waiting to be tested for PCOs.

I travelled to Dublin 2 weeks ago for a treatment from universal scalp clinic and bought their shampoo plc and activation cream and I'm religiously using it everyday. The asked me to sign up for X amount of treatments but at the time I couldn't afford it and said I would sign up after xmas...now reading this I'm definitely at having second thoughts.

I just want to no what is causing it

misscpmfan

marykitty47 wrote: »

I was on aldactone for 7years wgich was helping but all of a sudden stopped working.

7 Years?? When I went to that clinic it was 7 months into my alopecia and they told me they just might be able to help me, they said if it went past one year it looked doubtful.

They are no use seriously! They are as rude as hell too. Well one of the thricologists was. An older lady. So negative all the time. She literally couldn't be a**ed.

I feel so bad for my parents, they spent so much on me and that stupid clinic didn't help. I think if anyone went there and their hair grew back, It was pure coincidence!

marykitty47

Hi well ot started falling out when I got an abcess in my breast thats when I started aldactone. it seemed to be ok for the last 6.5yrs..I was still on the aldactone but 6months ago ot started thinning on top again. it is really getting me down.

is yours thinning all over? like you I will willing to try anything and my mum paid for the majority of my tests etc so far

marykitty47

have you had a scalp biopsy?

misscpmfan

No I've never had that, I had thick hair anyway before I got alopecia which started the end of October last year. So I hide it extremely well, most people are shocked when they find out or see my patches.
I just have 3 large bald patches and I tie my remaining hair back. My hair is quite healthy which is strange I suppose. But I'm so happy I can cover it, I don't know what I would do if I couldn't.
It is very hard to deal with. I understand
completely and some times it feels like their is no hope but I have peach fuzz on my biggest patch which appeared a few weeks back. It's amazing to me because I had nothing.
My dermatologist just gave me dermovate and I'm using that but I can never tell what is working because I'm on vitamins and a tiny patch grew back when I didn't have the dermovate so I think it's hit and miss at times.

misscpmfan

All of my hair grew back