Comments on: The Hair Loss Around Us – Reflection

By: Vicky

Vicky — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:23:54 +0000

J I feel the same way u do as I’m 22 and just noticed my hair loss last year. I’m on spiro now for 3 months at 200mg a day and so far no decrease in hair loss. I think its great the spiro helped u for 4 years how long before it started to help? Also did u restart taking the spiro after having ur son? Thank you for your response

By: J

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:59:19 +0000

Your story is so inspirational. I have a lot of the same feelings you do. I noticed my hair loss at 22 when I started on the pill just before my wedding (great timing) and started taking sprinolactone and olux foam. The hair loss stopped for about 4 years until after the birth of my little boy. It fell out for about a month then and stopped again until about six weeks ago. I notice it when it is wet and one spot when it is dry. I am constantly comparing my hair to others. I know no one notices right now but I look at my grandmother and how very bald she is now and am afraid that that is my future. I am definitely teetering between the anger and depression stage. I really have to overcome this fear. My little boy’s birthday is in a couple of weeks and I am missing so much due to my constant obsession over my hair. I don’t want to miss out on the good things. I just can’t stop obsessing even though I know it is wrong. I don’t want this to be my life long struggle but I am afraid that since it is genetic that it won’t stop. There are times when I just want to die instead of go on living with my hair loss but I know that God is so much bigger than this problem and that he has a purpose for my life with or without hair. I also know that this is not some sort of punishment for anything I did wrong just the trial that I am going to have to deal with. Thanks for listening!

By: admin

admin — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:59:01 +0000

Hi Jennifer, Wecome to the Site! Yes birth control pills is what was the onset of my hair loss 8 years ago. I was on the pill Loestrin FE and when I came off it started to lose my hair, and the rest is as they say, history. I didn't experience any hair loss while on the pill though. I was put back on the pill, ortho tricyclen (low androgen) to aid in the treatment and control of my hair loss. I hate being on the pill since I have such negative feelings toward it as it is what started the whole mess to begin with. But I was committed early on in doing anything and everything I could to treat my hair loss, so this is where I am today. I'm excited and encouraged by the recent improvement in my hair shedding. I believe the sudden drop in shedding was due to the decrease in my synthroid medication, a totally separate issue from my female pattern hair loss. In 2006 my synthroid dosage was raised and I began to lose a tremendous amount of hair, more than any year before. In 2007 it was raised again and my hair started to fall out like you wouldn't believe. From what I counted it was around 500 hairs a day. Thats insane. All the years prior I had been living with hair loss and never experienced that type of heightened shedding. Apparently a lot of people can have a sensitivity to the medication and it can cause hair loss, this has been verified by several physicians I've spoken with. Trust me, I am still not happy with the way I look with sparse thin hair that looks like nothing when it's wet, showing large streaks of scalp. But I've become so much more accepting of myself. You know Jennifer, hair loss from the pill isn't permanent for everyone. Some women just experience a telogen effluvium that could last 6 months and then their hair cycle just returns to normal and grows back in. I'm way beyond thinking that will happen for me, but I think the possibility exists for women that have recently just got on or off the pill and are experiencing hair loss. I also wish I had my hair back, but I no longer think I need all my hair back.. just enough to look normal. ~Y

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:04:07 +0000

Wow, that was touching. It brought tears to my eyes. Did birth control cause your hair loss? I think my hair loss is due to the pill, but my doctor thinks it is my nutrition. So I am still on the pill. Did you stop the pill.. and did that make it worse?

I wish you luck with possible regrowth of hair.
I hope mine will grow back one day. Sometimes I think things would be so much easier if I had thick hair…