Dr. Lorrie Klein’s Blog

Coming Soon!  Lumilash

As reported in the news and several financial analysts’ reports, hopefully sometime in 2009 Allergan will receive approval to market its eyelash enhancing product Lumilash (note, this is the proposed name and has not been finalized.)  Lumilash contains the patented prescription medication Bimatoprost, currently approved as Lumigan, an ophthalmic eye drop for the treatment of glaucoma.  Lumigan is currently being used off label by thousands of my patients to grow their eyelashes longer and thicker.  It is applied to the base the eyelashes, on the eyelids, rather than in the eye, and has proven itself to be safe and 100% effective in all of my patients who have used it.  As I have never seen any drug be 100% effective, in my 23 years experience in medicine, these results are extraordinary to me!  I have even seen it grow lashes in patients who have lost them due to chemotherapy and alopecia areata (a disease that causes loss of scalp and sometimes facial and/or body hair.)  Patients who have had sparse lashes their entire lives, as many of my patients of Asian descent have, are especially thrilled with their longer and thicker lashes.

Within weeks of daily use, lashes grow longer and thicker, and will continue to grow until use of this medication is reduced.  In fact, many of my patients have to trim their eyelashes at this point.  They sometimes grow so long they look like extensions.  We recommend that daily use is reduced at this point to two to three times weekly for maintenance. 

We have over 1000 patients on it now and they love it!  I personally will continue to use it too!

Lumigan is one of the most popular products we sell in my office.  It is a prescription eye drop that when applied to the base of the eyelashes also stimulates eyelash growth.  It has worked in 100% of the approximately 1000 patients we have sold it to.  In fact, your eyelashes continue to grow until you have to actually trim them (I know from personal experience!)  Continued maintenance at two-to-three times per week then keeps them at the perfect length of your choice.

One of my patients was having a romantic dinner with her husband recently and emailed me this story:

“Ken and I were having dinner during my birthday weekend and he leans toward me real romantically…stares into my eyes…and says….I’ve never seen your eyelashes so long.  I can’t stop looking at them.  I bust out laughing…thought of you and my lumigan solution…and the mood went right out the window.  So it must be working”

If you have a cute or funny story regarding a treatment or product you have received from my office or spas, please send it to me as a comment to this story.  I’m sure my other readers would love to read it too!  It can be about Lumigan or anything related to dermatology or spa treatments or products.