Comments on: My 23 Year Old Daughter Is About To Stop Loestrin BCP Due To Major Hair Loss https://www.womenshairlossproject.com/birth-control-pills/my-23-year-old-daughter-is-about-to-stop-loestrin-bcp-due-to-major-hair-loss/ A Community For Women Dealing With Hair Loss - Help, Hope and Understanding Sun, 21 Feb 2021 23:05:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.16 By: Gena https://www.womenshairlossproject.com/birth-control-pills/my-23-year-old-daughter-is-about-to-stop-loestrin-bcp-due-to-major-hair-loss/#comment-2489862 Sun, 21 Feb 2021 23:05:17 +0000 https://www.womenshairlossproject.com/?p=2269#comment-2489862 Hi Lovely Ladies,
I’m in my early 50’s with Androgenetic Alopecia. I’ve had many sleepless nights thinking about how to cope with this. No great solutions here. Over the last 15 years, I’ve seen dermatologists in MD, VA and NC and have tried many non-invasive “solutions” with no great results. So I suppress my feelings, living in hope that some brilliant person will soon create a real solution to our problem. I’m starting with this post to work up my courage to actually begin to verbalize my feelings. It’s really hard for me but I’m realizing that acting like you don’t have any feelings doesn’t actually protect you from them.

The Post above on Birth Control encouraged me to write because, more than anything, I don’t want my daughter to experience hair loss like I have. She is in her late teens and has been on Lo-Loestrin for one year to help with acne and bad cramping. She has experienced quite a bit of hair shedding and I had been chalking that up to hormones/stress and hair highlights. Her hair is noticeably thinner now than a year ago. Recently she and her doctor have discussed moving to a low dose hormone arm implant like Nexplanon. Does anyone have any direct experience with this type of hormone implant and hair loss?

]]> By: Heather https://www.womenshairlossproject.com/birth-control-pills/my-23-year-old-daughter-is-about-to-stop-loestrin-bcp-due-to-major-hair-loss/#comment-2489858 Sun, 21 Feb 2021 16:20:22 +0000 https://www.womenshairlossproject.com/?p=2269#comment-2489858 I have tried it ALL. I never had a lot of hair to begin with, and it’s super fine, but I was at least able to grow it almost to my shoulders when I was younger.
My loss started in my 30’s…I was told due to genetics. I went off the pill and my husband got a vasectomy but it still didn’t rebound. I have had my hormone levels checked every 6 months for the last 12 years. I had a hysterectomy due to fibroids at age 50. I am now on hormone replacement – Estradiol patch, progesterone, and dhea which helps me feel and look better. It shouldn’t exacerbate the loss, but who knows? At this point, in the last 16 years I have tried Mens Rogain, Viviscal Pro vitamins, nutrafol vitamins, Scalp injections, PRP injections, Keralase laser treatments, Hair Max laser, Nioxin and Viviscal shampoos, topical steroids, scalp exfoliants, conditioners, Kerastase growth serum, high protein diet, gluten free diet…and now I am on Propecia [which DID help my husband, but so far not me]. The only think I haven’t tried is spirinolactone. I don’t know why my doctors haven’t suggested it. I would be very interested in hearing about other people’ experiences with it.
I am at my wit’s end. I DO NOT want to wig up. I live in a hot humid summer climate and the thought of trying to play golf or tennis in an itchy wig in very hot weather sounds horrible. Plus my scalp is the sweatiest part of my body when I am warm or exercise. I look terrible in short hair, and the irony is, short hair requires much more effort to style, so it’s actually worse for my hair. It is so frustrating! Why can’t I grow hair like 99.9% of the female population?? I don’t want a lot…just a tiny bit more so I can have a pony tail that doesn’t look like a mouse tail. So depressing.

]]> By: Paula https://www.womenshairlossproject.com/birth-control-pills/my-23-year-old-daughter-is-about-to-stop-loestrin-bcp-due-to-major-hair-loss/#comment-2488730 Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:56:31 +0000 https://www.womenshairlossproject.com/?p=2269#comment-2488730 Hi
After reading your story I wanted to share my daughters. As it sounds just like yours. my beautiful daughter 32.She has been losing her hair for 5 years .she has had all tests at Doctors. Who I have to say ,haven’t been much help sadly. And all come back normal. She had her daughter 6 years ago ,after years of trying. Then hubby left .And she had suffered 5 miscarriages. She suffers from metal health.Came of pill as thought it could be part of the hair loss problem. She has gluten intolerance. I as her mum ,have been researching none stop .looking at sprays ,toppers,wigs,closures,mesh integration etc etc .Trouble is Jade is so nervous, to try wigs etc. Please please any help would be much appreciated.Kind regards Paula

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