Hair loss

[Penny66]

I have only taken one dose og mtx. I tske the next dose tonight. I woke up this morning with Hair everywhere. Is it possible that I am starting to loose my hair already?

[Amy_Lee]

Hi Penny66, it happened to me at the very beginning. However, the condition stopped sometime ago. I did inform my doctor about this side effect, the doctor said that unless a bunch of it else as compare to the benefits it bring to me, it was not alarming enough to demand a change.

So don't worry, it will stop else talk to your doctor about it.

[Penny66 in reply to Amy_Lee]

Thank you. I will wait for a while to see if it stops.

[Amy_Lee in reply to Penny66]

Hahaha... look at my picture here, this was taken in Nov 2015. I still have a lot of hair, right? Trust yourself, not to worry too much about it.

[Penny66 in reply to Amy_Lee]

Okay thanks.

[Penny66]

Thanks Kai

[tselph]

Aren't you on folic acid? If not you need to be right away. This helps prevent that. It also helps to prevent the mouth sores you can get from the MTX. I take 3 tablets of Folic Acid 1 mg.

Good luck!

[Chances26]

I too am losing hair, need to color but afraid to

[sjewell_77]

People r different with side effects and I guess it always possible but it usually takes a bit to get into ur system.

[Jmiller46]

I have been losing some too. I just took my fifth dose Monday. Mine is already thin and getting thinner. I have already decided if it keeps up I am just going to shave it off and go without :). Maybe a bright purple wig for special occasions lol. Also maybe if it all falls out it will grow back in better. That would be nice.

[lindabekket]

some one recommended watermans on here watermans grow me and i started using it and my hair stopped falling out and started growing about 4 weeks later

[Jen62 in reply to lindabekket]

Today I saw my rheumatologist and he told me my blood work was negative and X-rays show different types of arthritis but this past August 2016 my life changed at 53. I woke up to severe pain in my joints, swelling and simply could not walk to the bathroom alone. After going through the process of elimination I still knew nothing. So I was until Jan 2017 seeing a real arthritis doc. Today was my second visit and it appeared as if I was going home with no answers so I quickly started asking about my fingers and the electricity that runs through my hands and head. I admit prednisone saved my life no doubt about it. It kept me from going to the nursing home. Meanwhile 3 Docs said I had fibro so I was on 400 mg twice a day of neurontin and that had moved to 600 mg twice a day a week ago. I couldn't tell it was helping at all. Meanwhile Percocet done nothing for the pain. So finally today he offered methotrexate 8 pills one day a week keep in mind there may be nausea, hair loss and oh yea I'm tapering you off the prednisone and then I'm also ordering some physical therapy. I really couldn't believe what I was hearing. In what world will I be able mentally or physically to do this? Oh yea don't forget the folic acid. Oops I have an endocrinologist appt next month because my primary thinks my parathyroid is a tumor now and needs to be removed. I have no maid, no care giver not even an appt book. I am also on about 13 more meds. I just wanted help. I didn't need all of this really I didn't.

[tselph]

Are you taking folic acid every day with this? You should be. Folic acid helps to prevent the side affects from the methotrexate; mouth sore, hair loss, etc...