My Hair Grew Back!

[BeTheSmile]

On Lupron, and after 3 months, the hair on my head started to grow and fill in! Radiation Nurse says strange hair things happen now and then, like hair of a different color. He says it does not necessarily revert back. I am happy about the hair growth!

[Shooter1]

Hair coming back--helps to make you look healthy... That way people can compliment you on how good you look for a cancer patient.... Mine came back thin and white..

[CAMPSOUPS in reply to Shooter1]

That's funny. We've had a couple posts/threads in the last couple years of the YEA and NAY of being told we look good. I have no beef in that. Not sure how I feel about it. I can see it as a positive.

On to chemo again for me. So will be like burning the forest...will see what kind of hair sprouts after this time (likely the same) lol.

First time was winter of 2020. Winter works good. I still have a fashionable collection of winter stocking caps thanks to my wife lol.

[Dont08759]

actually makes a lot of sense that lower T would curtail male pattern baldness. I asked my medical oncologist if this was a benefit of Lupron? He just stared at me…

[WayneSC]

I had the same thing with my hair becoming thicker again on the top and also all of my chest hair and under arm hair totally fell out. Here five years later I can see that the hair is beginning to thin out again to its former state.

[treedown]

My spot on top of head filled in and and hair got thicker but at the smae time I lost it everywhere else on my body. Luckily as a cyclist I didn't mind it at all.

[David826]

Happened to me as well! I was on a 4-month Lupron regimen and noticed that the hair on my head thickened (other body hair --arms-legs etc.. fell off). I've been off Lupron for a year and a half...unfortunately the hair on my head reverted to it's pre-Lupron state while arm leg hair t, etc.. returned

[Okay4now]

Congratulations ! For me, no additional hair on my head, but everywhere else,

"like a baby's butt."

[Don_1213]

If you're taking finasteride (Propecia, Propecia Pro-Pak, and Proscar) for urinary retention this makes perfect sense. Finasteride is also prescribed for hair-loss...

[cancerfox]

Not unusual. Mine did the same thing. Dihydrotestosterone is derived from testosterone. Found in the skin, hair and prostate, it binds itself to follicles that cause them to become smaller in size, resulting in the thinning of your hair and eventually losing these strands . So less testosterone, less Dihydrotestosterone, and more hair. There are probably better ways to deal with hair loss than getting prostate cancer, though. 😃