Hair Stories

[TaraKaberry]

I would like to hear from anyone who has had their hair grow back after thinning badly.  Mine started thinning before I was diagnosed and medicated and since it seems to be thinning faster.  I have been tested once since my initial diagnosis and my TSH reduced from 311 to 52 over 3 weeks.  I am due to be tested again in another weeks time.  I have read this before but I am not sure whether it is because of the condition itself (out of balance) or the medication.

Anyone that has something of interest to write I'd love to hear from you.

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Tara

[TaraKaberry]

Looking back I think I started out hyper... which sounds like what you are describing.  No sleep, resting heart rate through the roof and ridiculously anxious..  Not good memories.  Then for a period of about 10 years I think I was hypo and just getting gradually and gradually worse until there was no denying the symptoms.

Well I've been on the medication Thyroxine for a little over a month now and it has pretty much reversed all my symptoms and my hair has stopped falling out. Yay !!  I haven't had another blood test done yet since my THS was reviewed from 311 to 52 and so now I'm hoping to be back closer to a normal range.  I hadn't realized how fatigued and bloated and anemic I really was.  My husband for the first time in our marriage has said that I am now warm in bed instead of being freezing.  The only strange side effect I have noticed is that I am itchy at times.  I am never normally itchy??? So this is a little new for me.  But considering the massive relief of all the other symptons (yay for NORMAL periods) I am really happy !

[allmymarbles]

When I first became hypothyroid (late teens) I would lose quarter-sized patches of hair. These would grow back, fall out, grow back. I had bad luck with medication of my condition. It gave me the jitters, so I never really took it. I think my thyroid function at some point returned to normal (no hair loss), only to return later in life when I was suffering from exhaustion and insomnia and everything went haywire. Now that I think about it, I also suffered from exhaustion when I had the first bout of hypothyroidism.