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Graves disease and hair loss

Hi  I have graves disease and in the last 2 months I have been losing mass amounts of hair.  Why all the sudden am I losing my hair?  

Medication

Methimazole 5 mg in morning
                         10 mg at night

Propranolol   10 mg x 3 a day

Could it be the medication  
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It is usually from unstable thyroid levels...normally Hypo.
As you have Graves it would be unlikely that your TSH would budge much (with a thyroid) and your FT4 is low and FT3 average to low with Graves.
You are basically heading Hypo with the antithyroid meds and time for your Doctor to decrease a fraction.
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5/25/10  labs


tsh 0.022
t3 free   3.51   1.70-4.20
t4 free   1.01    0.70-2.00

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