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Loss of hair how long before it grows back?

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I was just wondering how long your hair takes to grow back once medicated? Also I have ridges on my head where my hair has thinned is this common?

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I'm not sure if there's a general answer to this. Last time someone asked, that I recall, quite a few replied with their experiences.

My head hair is thinning on top , but it's not too noticeable to others, maybe because it's long? I still loose head hair every day but think it's also growing.

I've recently been losing eyelashes. Lost some, but not all eyebrow hair which I didn't mind, as they were too bushy. My legs went bald, again I didn't mind that but some hair grew back after about a year on Levothyroxine. Underarm hair never grew again.

But I believe I was left underreplaced with the old "don't want you to get Osteoporosis " excuse. Fought my way back to Endo recently and got a slight increase in LT4, hoping to get T3 soon.

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