PCOS Messages for May, 2001: Re: hair loss question

Re: hair loss question

From: Tracy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 11 May 2001 09:33:24 -0500 (CDT)

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I am not sure, but I have been shedding an awful lot of hair lately too.

I used to take glucophage, and wound up in the ER the gastric distress was so bad. The endo put me on Actos, and then when he started seeing good results with patients who were intolerant of glucophage with the glucophage XR formula, he put me on it instead. Once I switched to the XR, hair started coming out in handfuls. So he doubled it, and my blood sugar was still out of control, so he added 30 mg Actos with the 1000 mg glucophage XR. I still take 100 mg aldactone each day too. And my thyroid meds were increased to .15 from .125 of Levoxyl. So, my hair _should_ not be falling out as bad, but it is. Still coming out in handfuls when I run my fingers through it and in the shower. From underneath in the back sides, so at least it is only thin and patchy where it does not show. But there is a lot of new fuzzy growth back there too, so who knows.

The endo. told me that hair is on a 90 day growth cycle, so whatever is causing it to fall out happened roughly 3 months before it started to fall out. All I can think of is the medication switch or the fact that I was briefly on an anti-inflammatory drug called Vioxx for a while at the beginnng of the year.

I don't know what to say except to make sure there is nothing else going on that could be causing it. And you might want to ask a doctor about that 90 day hair growth cycle thing, and if they verify it, think what happened 3 months before it started falling out.

If it starts to look thin, there are some good volumizing products out there to try, I use them and you really cannot tell it is so thin underneath.

Good Luck, Tracy

> Why do we LOSE our head hair and GROW hair where
>there shouldn't be any??! >:( I'm not on Met anymore as the symptoms
>landed me in the ER after 2 months of it and I was told to stop taking
>it, so I don't know if that will help with the hair loss. I'm now on
>Avandia and Flutamide (a "potent anti-androgen"), as well as a
>multivitamin and iron supplement. Since the Flutamide is an
>anti-androgen, will it help to prevent further hair loss as well as
>fight the existing hirsutism??

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