Clutter in reply to Niklew5 years ago

Niklew,

You could try iron and biotin. Make sure you stop taking biotin a week before ALL blood tests as it can skew results.

SeasideSusieAdministrator in reply to Niklew5 years ago

Niklew

I haven't suffered hair loss (fortunately) so can't help there.

Elisabeth41 in reply to Niklew5 years ago

Hiya Niklew, I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism around 30 years ago and some years later I found myself in the same situation regarding hairloss. I had lost a great deal of weight but unfortunately a great deal of hair with it! I learnt that with a large weight loss or unwanted weight loss as you have stated then the body will sent the nutrients to where they are most needed, unfortunately your hair being right at the very bottom of the list! I also learnt that you do indeed need a good ferritin level for regrowth and I was recommended Ferrograd C. This is a slow release iron supplement which includes vitamin C. Of course you need to test and make sure your levels don't go over and your thyroid results need to be at their optimum. I also was advised to wash my hair more often to encourage new growth not less. I know it can look alarming but you cannot wash your hair away whatever comes out would have soon been shed anyway. I fully understand how you are feeling but i am sure given time it will recover. My hair had always been my pride and joy, extremely long and thick. I found myself making regular trips to the hairdressers to have it cut shorter and short as it got thinner and thinner. Be good to yourself, eat as well as you can, do what you need to do to get your ferritin level up and be patient and I'm sure your hair will be back to normal as indeed it was for me.

Fruitandnutcase in reply to Niklew5 years ago

When I was being treated with carbimazole I accidentally became very hypo ( I’ve got Graves Disease which is hyper)

When I saw the endo for the first time I was then started on T4 as well as the carb. By the time I went for me next endo visit six weeks later my hair was falling out like mad. Every time I washed it I cleared masses of hair out of the plughole.

Upset didn’t even cover it, handfuls of hair falling out absolutely drove me wild. It got everywhere I was forever serving it up to my poor husband.

When I saw the endo at my second visit after I had started on levo as well as carbimazole she said no wonder I felt awful, it was because my body had been on a roller coaster having gone from being massively hyper to being very hypo in a very short period of time and that as my thyroid got back to normal my hair would sort itself out.

To a certain extent it did. In between I used various hair products. I started off with meadowsweet shampoo and conditioner, then I moved on to a Kerastase shampoo that helped your scalp - can’t remember what it was called. I’m using Plantur 39 products now and that seems good but like you I try to wash my hair as little as possible. I also use a bristle brush - a Kent version of those really expensive Mason Pearson brushes, my hairdresser said that would be good, that it distributes the oils and stops it getting like straw so he was right.

I also let my hair grow, it’s shoulder length now. I’ve got arthritis and I find it hard to hold my arms up to do anything with my hair and I think being longer helps because it’s much easier to keep and I don't have to handle is as much as I did when it was shorter.

I try and eat really good food, lots of eggs, oily fish, vegetables, drink lots of water - basically avoid junk food. I’ve made sure my vitamin D and B12 are well up as well as ferritin and folates.

So fingers crossed that it isn’t too long before your hair calms down and stops falling out.