Hi Rachel, this is exactly my story. I stopped with the birth control in 2008. Still dealing with it but back on vestura now ..

I just wanted to know what’s your current situation is with the pills and the overall condition of your hair. Thank you!!

It falls all day long and its everywhere: bed, shower, couch, car, desk at work. It falls like a leaf on a tree while sitting and doing nothing. I have cut my hair into a bob but my hair just keeps falling enough to where I think I may go pixie, just to deal.

I have seen my DO, GYN, Naturopath, and Dermatologist. My blood work is great and now I am waiting on my hormone test. The DO didn’t find anything wrong but did a blood test and sent me to a very nice Dermatologist, who thinks its maybe a mixture of hormones, stress and triggered by the surgery. She gave my Ketoconzole and Fluocoinde to help. The GYN said it may be contributed to being peri-menopausal and we are doing a hormone test to see. There is a possibility is could be hereditary as my Dad is bald but Mom still has a thick head of hair at 68–she still has to get it thinned out! COME ON!!!

I have fallen into a deep depression and my husband is fed up. He tells me that yes it has thinned but I know have to buck up and be a positive role model for our 11-year-old daughter. And I need to stop obsessing about my hair. I cant work and this hair fall is going to drive me into the loony bin. If I died, it would be a welcomed relief to all of this.

Can anyone understand me because no one in my personal life does or says it is ok. And its not ok.

The only product hair doctors ( in France & in the US ) have recommended me to use is Rogaine. I have androgenic alopecia. I have started using this product around 15 but lost a lot of hair around 21. Used it for another couple years and then stopped because of itch ( and worn out completely …) I am 38 now and have to use the product again as the hair loss is still f** there. I am going to try Viviscal just for the heck of it.
I am searching now ( I live in the US now ) a good gentle shampoo for sensitive scalp if you have any recos ???

For the comments on the pill, I don’t know what to say – due to greasy hair I had to take a pill to dry out my scalp. Never quite stopped. Now that I am older I was prescribed another pill called Desogestrel ( said to provoke hair loss but it is kind of already the case so I see no difference ! )
I am struggling to use everyday Rogaine 5% ( so sick of that product !! ) as results are not very visible or very veryyyyy slow….

Anyway, I am happy to join a website with woman who understand my everyday life & struggle !! Any exchange of products I can buy in the US would be nice. We can help each other :o)
Thanks beautiful ones!
Pam

My hair loss started in 2007, after my first few weeks of law school. Prior to 2007, my hair was long and thick, and just fucking fantastic. I never had a problem with hair loss – in fact, i probably abused my hair back then.

i realized quickly after my first couple classes that law school was no joke. i was unbelievably stressed out, and my anxiety was through the roof. every morning after setting foot in the library, i immediately had to go to the bathroom from the intense anxiety. I lost like 15 lbs. Shortly thereafter (like in a matter of weeks), my hair started falling out in clumps. it got so thin that all my friends and family noticed, though my scalp was never visible. the shedding slowed down after my first year, but regrowth was minimal. i didnt regain the full volume and density i had lost until 2 years after graduation.

So I graduated law school in 2010, and since the economy was in the shitter, i was not gainfully employed until 2 years after graduation. however, during that time, stress was minimal, and my hair miraculously grew back. it wasnt as thick as it originally was, but it was definitely normal.

Approximately 3-4 months after starting my first real attorney job in 2012, i started losing my hair again. i wasnt losing the massive clumps that i had been in law school, but the shedding was intense, and left my hair incredibly thin. i dont remember when the shedding stopped – i felt like it took longer for my hair to thin this time. my hair started to regrow at some point during that time, but for the large majority of 2 years, i practically had nothing. again, my scalp wasnt visible, but my hair was just pitiful. during that time, i started taking biotin, and i truly believe that helped with the regrowth.

moving along – by August 2014, my hair was wonderful again. it had not all grown out, but the top was super thick, probably what is was before law school. then in Dec 2014, i stopped taking my birth control for 1 week (i have been on Yasmin for 15 years), and my hair started falling out. without realizing the connection, i started taking BC again and the hair loss seemed to stop. However, in January 2015, my job became hellish, and i was under an unbelievable amount of stress because i thought i was going to lose my job (turns out my boss is just a huge prick and wanted to put pressure on me so that i would bill more hours). i started losing my hair in January, and approx. 200 hairs would come out a day. In march, i stopped taking my BC again for 1 week (still not realizing the connection) and my hair started falling out even more. after hours of internet searches, i realized that maybe BC was the trigger this time, and so i resumed BC. However, my shedding became worse, and over the past 2 weeks, i have been losing approx. 400 hairs a day. i am still taking biotin, and now Vit D, and a multi vit, but i feel so fucking hopeless. i know all i can do is wait this out, but it’s just so hard, because I feel so helpless. i dont know when this will stop and it’s fucking terrifying.

long story short, it feels good to memorialize the hell in which i have lived for the past 8 years. i’m also thankful this forum exists so i can post my experience.