Experience stopping hydroxycholoquine/plaquenil

[loretta1106]

Does anyone have e experience stopping hydroxycholoquine/plaquenil? I’ve on it 7 years, suddenly experience hair loss. Wondering if stopping helps.

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Have you been ill with a high temperature in the last three months, whether Covid-19 or some other form of fever? Apparently hair loss after such a fever is completely normal, it's called telogen effluvium, and can make you hair go really, really thin, as I discovered to my cost! However, it is temporary, and what I found is that my hair stopped falling out after about six weeks, but it also stopped growing. Then it suddenly caught up with itself and is now back to normal!

[daisyd]

Ask your doctor if you could have your iron stores checked, different from the anaemia ones, also folic acid, my hair improved since I started on these supplements, but get your blood checked first

Good luck

[loretta1106 in reply to daisyd]

How much folic acid do you take? I take 400 mg a day that's in the multivitamin

[daisyd in reply to loretta1106]

5mgs folic acid and ferrous gluconate both prescribed by Doctor