Diane 35

[MayaTK]

I am a 28 year old female I have been suffering a serious hair loss since 5 years ago , I have been diagnosed with hypothyroidism 5 years ago and started treating it with levothyroxine, doctors said that hair loss will stop once my levels will be balanced, which they were balanced and tho I still I lost my hair.Another doctor prescribed me Diane 35 I have been taking it for the last 3 years and it didn't help only got worse, a year and a half ago I changed my thyroid medication to Armour and my blood tests came out perfect, my hair is still falling out and It makes me sooo sad because no one knows what causes the hair loss and I don't know what to do?????I also know that getting off the pill will cause more hair loss and then I will be left with no hair at all! is it possible that using diane 35 causing this hair loss?
Thank you so much

[MayaTK]

Thank you so much I really appreciate your response, I have spoke to my doctor and decided to go off diane 35, I have been spotting between periods terribly the last year and a half ,and for the last couple of months my breast started to ache and became swollen for a period of more than a week each month.
I would like to clean my body from all these toxics and hopefully the next tests(I don't know how long it take te detoxic) will show why I am losing my hair.
Thank you again it means a lot to me

[Bhupinder Kaur, MD]

Hello,
Endocrine and hormonal diseases like thyroid disease itself can cause hair loss. But in your case, I would like to rule out the possibility of chronic telogen effluvium as well. It persists for a longer duration and starts with insidious onset. Chronic telogen effluvium is hair shedding lasting longer than 6 months. Treatment consists of medications like Minoxidil, surgical approach(hair transplantation) and improvement in diet.

My sincere advice is to consult a trichologist. It is very difficult to precisely confirm a diagnosis without examination and investigations and the answer is based on the medical information provided. For exact diagnosis, you are requested to consult your doctor. I sincerely hope that helps. Take care and please do keep me posted on how you are doing.