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Hair loss & cortisone injections

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I have hair loss at both my left & right temples, and my derm thought we could try a handful of cortisone pulse injections on both sides. My question is, could the "watered down" injections make my hair loss worse & can it kill any hair follicles? I was told it was at a low enough strength to not cause an indents

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