Prematurely grey hair

[Jaie]

The link below says prematurely grey hair is linked to autoimmune thyroid disease.

dailymail.co.uk/health/arti...

[Trixie64]

I learnt that a couple of years ago, I think from Mary Shomon's blog. Certainly true in my case ...... first grey hairs at age 19, a "Mallen streak" (white at the front) mid-twenties, totally grey mid-forties.

[Fruitandnutcase]

It is indeed. I have Graves Disease and the front and underneath of my hair is completely silver. My hairdresser loves to play with it, if he brushes it back it is completely silver and when he lets it fall down it is dark again. He keeps telling me I couldn't pay to have hair like that. I'm tipping towards being hypo at the moment and I notice my hair isn't nearly as silver as it was when I was very hyper. There had to be an upside to thyroid problems and that's mine 😊

[Clutter]

Jaie, I knew Graves caused greying, my mother had a 'Mallen' streak and my sister had grey hairs at 7. Neither were diagnosed until in their 40s/50s. I do have grey hairs but not enough to dye it to disguise it and although I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's I don't think I'd had it for long before I had a thyroidectomy and no longer have antibodies. Hair texture is coarser than it used to be though.

[waveylines]

No history before me with hypothyroidism. However history of white hair on my mother side of the family. First white hair at 16yrs, loads of white hair by 20 had to start dying -pure white by 50s. Me, my mother and grandma all the same. My brother also has white hair from young age and pure white. Other Autoimmune conditions though are rife on my mothers side. Research is now showing autoimmune conditions linked in groups this might be why mine has come up as hypothyroidism and the others in my family have different autoimmune conditions like Vitiligo. Interesting eh?

[shambles]

i have Graves'/Hashimoto's and my hair started going grey at 15. :/

[Natalie286]

Noticed a whole host of my, so called, 'first grey hairs' just before/around the time my hashis got diagnosed - I assumed it was linked 😳 my hair colour kept fading from dark brown to a light brown with a ginger tinge - thyroid or low iron I thought? Glad to see there is a connection tho' - good report Jaie x

[gabkad]

It's really funny when people say to me 'but you are a blonde'...... I most certainly am not. I don't dye my hair anymore and there's a really big mix of colours so I look like I have highlights. My hairdresser was constantly telling me when I said 'no more dyes' that I'll look terrrrible. I was somewhat concerned I'd look like a witch. But even she has had to admit that this is not true and there's lots of stripey colouring negating even the need for highlights. Bonus! My hair is pretty long now and for some reason has become quite curly at the bottom which is new. I think that's from putting castor oil/coconut oil into my hair when I go swimming so the chlorine in the pool doesn't eat my hair. I just leave it in for the whole week-end and reapply each time I go swimming. By Sunday I look like Medusa. And after I wash it, the curls stay. Cool!

[Jazzw]

i had a patch of red hair at the front of my head as a child. The rest of my hair was dark brown. I often got asked if I'd dyed it. It was the first of my hair to turn pure white - when I was 19. Now I suspect I'm more white than brunette, but I never leave my hair uncoloured long enough to find out!

[Zephyrbear]

Although I wasn't diagnosed with Hashi's until the age of 50, I HAD to dye my hair by the time I was in my 30s because (like my mother before me) I was almost completely grey and wasn't ready to start looking old yet!

[JacquelineR]

Interesting! I started going grey in my 20s.... I have Hashimoto's...