Doryx and hair loss

[holly_berre]

I am 32 years old and have been prescribed Doryx and a topical acne medication for slight facial and back acne.  I have been taking the medication 5-6 weeks and for the past week or so I am noticying hair loss.  (roughly double the normal amount of hair I would loose in a day.)  My hair is noticably thinning.  Could this be a side effect of the medication I am taking?  Has anyone else experienced this?  On a side note, my skin is now completely clear.

[Vfmc30]

Could you please update on your hair loss?  My 16year old son took doxy for approximately three months and has had substantial hair thinning. Please tell me this is not permanent and his hair will grow back!  

[Drenee1962]

Tell me your outcome from doxy. Did it grow back?

[ShariAnn5]

Hi, I am so glad I read this. About a year and a half ago I was on doxy  for about two months, 100 mg a day. I notice about a month and a half after stopping it, I notice I lost about 1/3 of my hair and to this day it has not grown back. I pull it gently into a clip, so I can hide my thinning hair. Is your hair growing back? Will mine?

[aussea]

I was prescribed Doryx in June 2013 for rosacea and over the course of a few weeks, lost about a third of my hair; maybe more. I stopped taking it once I realized what was happening and had to cut my long hair into a short/medium layered style to minimize the obviousness of the loss. The experience was traumatic and I feared it might be permanent, but I found that my hair growth resumed almost immediately after discontinuing use.  At the 6 week mark, I noticed little sprouts throughout (loss was even; not in patches). -- It's now October 2014 and my hair is still filling in. It's growing at a normal rate, but it takes a while to grow hair from nothing.  The layered look I'm sporting hides the trauma of 16 months ago.

[blc16]

I am a 16 year old male in my family their is no hair loss at all my 88 year old grand father still has all of his hair. Anyways took doxycycline for 3 months for acne problems about 1 month after ending my treatment started seeing my hair thin to the point i could see my scalp. I even receded from the temples as if i had male pattern baldness.Will the hair grow back and if yes how long can it take??? Thank you  

[Vfmc30]

Ha your hair grown back?  My son is 16 and has thinning hair after three months on this medicine. No baldness in the family. Please update

[hairless111]

Hello everyone,
I thought I'd give a feedback after 2 years that I've last postet about my hairloss after having taken Doxycyclin for malaria-prevention.
Last time I posted I had lost the complete hair of my scalp within 6 months. After that I gradually lost all my body hair including my eyelashes and eyebrows in the end. After being without a single hair on my body for more than another year, my hair started regrowing very slowly more than 2 years and 6 months after it startet to shed.
It re-grew in patches reverse to the order it fell out (that means my eyelashes grew back frst). Patch after patch it it re-grew everywhere and now, another 6 months after it started growing there is only a 6 cm bald spot left. So it took about 3 years from my hair starting to shed until it fully recovered.
HOWEVER: At the moment I am gaining certainty that my hair is shedding again. There is no itching or soreness going with it, though (like it did when it started 3 years ago). I wish my hair was just stressed and weak temporarely and that it will be fine again after a short while. However, when it started shedding 3 years ago, I intuitively new from the beginning that I would be losing all my hair. And I have the same feeling now.
This is even worst than last time as 3 years ago, I didn't know what was ahead of me. Now I've learned that I will face having to spend thousands and thousands of dollars on wigs again. Having to wear them at work everyday and getting looked at strangely as people sometimes can tell that it's a wig. Having to wear them while doing my daily high performance sports routine which is unbearably uncomfortable. Having to wear it when I am working in very hot and humid developing countries. not being able to swim in hotel pools, public pools, the lake, the beach as I cannot wear wigs inside the water and there are always people around that could see me bold. And no, going without a wig ist no option for me.

Losing my hair again does not fit into the Doxycyclin theory. However, the way I am losing it etc. has never fit into any alopecia areata, totalis, universalis or whatever pattern, too. Everything was fine until I had to take some other antibiotic for pneumonia just this months. I noticed losing my hair 1 week after I had taken it. Perhaps I DO have some weird and strong reaction to some kind of medicine- but I do not know for sure. In fact I don't know anything right now. It's just very, very frustrating. I wish I wouldn't know what it is like having to wear wigs and everything that goes with it.

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[TroyChapel]

Was prescribed doxy 100mg per day for 3 months for skin infection, but after 5-6 weeks noticed severe head hair thinning, hotness and itchiness.

Stopped and saw GP, said never heard of this side effect but that I was right to stop. 8 weeks later hair still thinning but less itchy.

Seeing derm at the end of Jan14 to see if this is permanent or not.

It is an obvious problem and the medical and pharma world know it.

[Vfmc30]

Was it permanent?  Please update

[Syrenna88]

Yo tengo 25 años y tome hace 5 meses y desde hace 3 meses por primers vez en la vida se me cae el cabello a churro.

[lazzarini]

I took Doxycycline for about 3 months as an anti-malarial when I went traveling in Indonesia. I lost about a third of my hair by the time I came off the tablets. Every time I washed my hair I saw huge clumps go down the plug hole. My parting was really wide and my ponytail didn't have anywhere near as much hair as it used to. I was frantically reading this forum trying to find out if my hair would grow back as I was really upset and self conscious of my thin, lank hair . Anyway I thought I would post a success story to give other people going through this some hope. My hair has fully recovered! I cut about six inches off to aid it's recovery and I've been taking Perfectil tablets (3 boxes for £10 in Asda) for about 2 months plus additional Biotin(about £4 from Holland and Barrett) and my hair is not far off being it's normal length and if anything it looks even healthier than before I away. Don't lose hope ladies!

[007sharon]

Thanks a lot for this info....I was devastated with my hair loss...but this gives me hope :)

[aquagirl1976]

Hi, I took Doxycycline for 2 months starting in Feb 2012. I noticed hairloss July 2012. It is September now. I just had a baby this past May. My hairloss stopped when I became pregnant. It has just now started falling out again by a few strands at the time. I am hoping this will stop.

[ted611]

Does anyone know how to pursue legal action for hair loss associated with Doryx?

[MissinInAction]

I apologize for the late response.. but I went to my dermatologist for the injections..
From June 2012 to now my hair has grown 4 inches, I no longer have any bald spots. I barely lose any hair when combing it.
My last injection was March 2012.. and I started taking Biotin vitamins daily.
Hair loss started May 2011 and continued until around May 2012.. It is possible for your hair to grow back..dont lose hope.. I almost did..
Try those injections along with Biotin (10,000 mcg one a day) vitamins daily.. I still take them now.. you will definitely see results.
I thank God that I found a solution to stop the hair loss..
I truly believe that Biotin played a major role in helping it grow back because it even made my arm hair longer but who cares as long as I have hair on my head right..
hope this helps everyone..

[ugly16]

Sometimes it occurs as after effect and also stops automatically. So I do not think you should stop the course of taking doxycycline for this, rather you should consult with your doctor about this problem.

[caro418]

Dear,
I am from Belgium and i am glad to have found this website. I took doxycycline for 3 months as a malaria prevention. After I stopped the hair loss began. I read your comment and I am very curious now if you already found out something more about the cause and what to do about it. I am annoyed too that it's not on the list of the side effects and I would like to see it changed because it seems quite obvious now that this antibiotices is causing it.
Thanks,
Caro

[scc11211]

ive been taking 150mg of Doryx once a day for 6 days, and today when i took a shower today i noticed way more hair than usual coming out when i ran my fingers through. This is very upsetting because I have cystic acne and no other topical creams or pills have worked. thank you everyone for sharing your stories, hopefully the company who makes this product will add hair loss to the side effects!

[aquagirl01]

Hey.. It's been a while since you posted, has your hair come back? Has the shedding stopped?

[sonyaralphhotmailcom320]

omg this is happening to me now, hair is everywhere. how did your hair grow back?

[grandmoo1]

I've been taking 20 mg of Doxycycline off and on for about five months for Rosacea.  I've had some mild tingling and itching in bouts.  I just discovered several bald spots (one is larger than a quarter) on the back of my head and receding hairline at the back of my head and sides.  I've had no changes in diet or life and no one in my family has experienced this.  The only thing that changed was taking this drug.  

In addition, the drug companies have severely jacked the prices up on this drug and some other antibiotics, all of which used to be super cheap.

[s_eastman]

I have been off doryx for about seven months now and my hair loss stopped around 3 1/2 months and I noticed my hair starting to grow back around the fourth or fifth month. I took biotin, lysine, and vitamin e, which has been keeping both my skin and my hair healthy.

[mjb200]

Wanted to share my experience with Doxycycline. I'm a 24 year old male. I was prescribed Doxycycline for mild acne by my dermatologist in October 2012. I realize now how ridiculous that was and I wish I hadn't trusted her and had researched it myself. Guess I've learned my lesson now, whatever good that does me. I was on Doxycycline for a week and I started noticing my hair falling out at a pretty alarming rate. I didn't connect the two until 2 weeks in, when I found this thread. I immediately stopped taking it and threw it out. Well it is now February 2013 and my hair loss hasn't slowed down one bit. If it continues at this rate (which I expect it will) I have resigned myself to shaving my head in 2 months. The George Costanza would not be a good look for me. I am taking a range of supplements: saw palmetto, biotin and dht blockers. I have been using 5% monixidil foam for a month. It is incredible how much damage an anti-biotic can do. Judging by the fact that nobody has ever come back here to say their hair has returned I don't expect mine to. But I do hope that this helps somebody who was smarter than me and didn't just take whatever their doctor prescribed them without looking into it themselves. F*ck doxycycline.

[aprilzephyr]

I wanted to share that I have experienced hair loss with this too! And I plan to make this known to my doctor and pharmacist esp if hair loss hasn't been officially declared as a side effect of doxycycline.  

In mid-Dec '12, I started taking a generic version of Doryx called Doxylin 50 (50mg of doxycycline) once a day for 5 weeks to treat 3-month old cystic pimples that weren't healing.  In this time, I noticed chunks of my hair falling out every time I showered - visible handful chunks of hair... nothing like I've experienced ever before.  It was as if a hairdresser had taken a razor to my hair to thin it out!  I'm a 29 yr old S.E. Asian woman and my hair is normally healthy, lustrous and dense - I haven't dyed or chemically treated my hair in 10 years.  I actually I'd go as far as to say that my most notable physical feature would be my hair!

I didn't make the connection until two days ago when I thought to look up others' experience with this drug and found this thread.  I'm not on any other medication (incl the pill) so needless to say, I was convinced it was the Doxylin and threw the rest of it into the bin.  It's been two days since I stopped taking it and today I didn't had any chunks of hair falling out in the shower to my relief...  

Acne-wise the doxycycline was effective in healing my pimples and my skin is clear again.  They healed in two weeks but I kept on with the prescription recommended by the doctor to my hair's demise...

[alexa21]

I am relieved to have found this forum! I have been devastated by my hair loss that started recently.  I was prescribed doxy at the end of December. Within a few days my spouse noticed a small bald spot on top of my scalp. Within a week my hair was at 60% loss!  It is RAPIDLY SHEDDING!!  I had long thick hair in December. Now by January I am going bald! I went to a dermatologist and he arrogantly told me it was Alopecia Totatis and there was nothing I could do. He did not even ask if I had been on recent meds. I just started researching on my own & came across this. I am shocked that there is not more acknowledgement to this devastating side effect! I am having a really hard time with this.  :(