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What's wrong with me?
I started taking synthroid ten years ago. At the time, I had BEAUTIFUL long hair. (As a matter of fact,I was voted "best hair" in high school, asked to be a "hair model" for a tv commercial, was asked for my hair for a wig so I did and cut two "pigtails" each one enough for a wig, hairdressers would tell me they'd never seen so much hair, everyone told me how lucky I was, people stopped me to ask what i used on my hair, etc., etc., ) I never thought a thing of my hair, never did anything but wash it daily. It was gorgeous. After tfe birth of my first child, I was severly depressed and my Dr. tested me for thyroid problems. He said I had a goiter. He put me on synthroid and THAT'S when my hair started changing texture and falling out.
I have seen SEVENTEEN doctors, from dermotologists to endos, and every one of them days "it's not the synthroid" and "your levels are normal".
My hair is now brittle, dull, and I have(I cry about this regularly) probably lost almost all my hair.
My once beautiful, shiny, long hair that would curl and stay curled is now dull, short (barely grows at all) lifeless, brittle and falls out so much I have to plunge my shower and sink regularly.
Also, my fingernails have developed ridges in the last few years that also curl down on my index and next finger. But it's "not the Synthroid". RIGHT. WHATS WRONG WITH ME??????
I have seen SEVENTEEN doctors, from dermotologists to endos, and every one of them days "it's not the synthroid" and "your levels are normal".
My hair is now brittle, dull, and I have(I cry about this regularly) probably lost almost all my hair.
My once beautiful, shiny, long hair that would curl and stay curled is now dull, short (barely grows at all) lifeless, brittle and falls out so much I have to plunge my shower and sink regularly.
Also, my fingernails have developed ridges in the last few years that also curl down on my index and next finger. But it's "not the Synthroid". RIGHT. WHATS WRONG WITH ME??????
That classmate you ran into, you can do without! Don't let it scar you. It is your thyroid,its very hard to find the right doctor they are depending on bloodwork only! You need an old fashioned doctor who looks at the person and go over your symptoms thoroughly.
Their is a Doctor by the name of David Brownstein on the web, what he says really gets to the heart of the matter.
Hang in there, your hair will return as soon as you connect with the right doctor. I have a saying when someone like your former classmate makes hurtful remareks and that is "what goes around, comes around"!
I sincerely hope all turns out 100% for you.
Their is a Doctor by the name of David Brownstein on the web, what he says really gets to the heart of the matter.
Hang in there, your hair will return as soon as you connect with the right doctor. I have a saying when someone like your former classmate makes hurtful remareks and that is "what goes around, comes around"!
I sincerely hope all turns out 100% for you.
My doctor has diagnosed me with this hideous disease and I am going through stages of panic as I do not want to go bald, I don't want my skin to degrade and I just want to stay my healthy self :-(
Dear B.
Someone cares about you too. No, I didn't feel the MSM had any effect on the itching and burning, which seems to come and go and is worse if I am on less medication. Very mysterious. It feels like the follicles are being attacked, and dying. And that the hurtful bumps are the hair trying to go back through something that is clogging them....although it is not ingrown hair according to the dermatologist but rather something non-specific that she gave me an antibiotic watery thing for. does no good whatsoever.
MSM is a form of sulphur that is a basic building block of life and that we used to get through out food...for instance it is in grass, so we used to get it in our diet historically through herbivores who grazed on grass, and whom we then ate....but also of course through other vegetables. Who knows if it is our factory-farmed diet that causes the deficiency ? All I know is that I started taking it many many years ago, before I had a thyroid problem, just on general principles. I noticed immediately that it made my nails grow much faster.
Like you, I am so sick of taking handsful of supplements and medication all the time. Sometimes I become erratic out of frustration, and then notice the difference and go back to it. such a conflict. Obviously taking them is a daily reminder of illness, which is psychologically draining. But it is what it is, I guess. I can tell you, though, that my sister-in-law just went through chemotherapy and all that that entails and when she came out the other side of it, she was complaing about her fingernails being so weak etc., and of course her hair had suffered drastically from the chemicals. So I suggested she try MSM, which I get at Trader Joe's. She's been taking it for about 3 months now and says that, yes, the fingernails are growing quickly and dramatically improved ! That makes me so happy for her. And I assume that the improvement in strength in the fingernails is an overt sign of improvement in other tissues. And I do seem to see an increase in short hair frizz in my long hair, which I HOPE is the little guys making a modest come back.
I don't notice that most fabric makes me itch, although on the few occasions I've worn pantyhose lately, THEY seem to cause it ! It's really more the hair itself.I'm always twisting it up on the tiop of my head when I'm trying to read in bed at night or it starts itching my neck like crazy. I sure don't remember thst happening previously in my life, and I've always kept my hair below my shoulders, otherwise it sticks straight out and I look like I had a white-person-'fro.
You too, hang in there. I have a scrip for new FREE tests from my gyno, haven't had them done since May as I was supposedly stable. We'll see.
Good wishes.
Someone cares about you too. No, I didn't feel the MSM had any effect on the itching and burning, which seems to come and go and is worse if I am on less medication. Very mysterious. It feels like the follicles are being attacked, and dying. And that the hurtful bumps are the hair trying to go back through something that is clogging them....although it is not ingrown hair according to the dermatologist but rather something non-specific that she gave me an antibiotic watery thing for. does no good whatsoever.
MSM is a form of sulphur that is a basic building block of life and that we used to get through out food...for instance it is in grass, so we used to get it in our diet historically through herbivores who grazed on grass, and whom we then ate....but also of course through other vegetables. Who knows if it is our factory-farmed diet that causes the deficiency ? All I know is that I started taking it many many years ago, before I had a thyroid problem, just on general principles. I noticed immediately that it made my nails grow much faster.
Like you, I am so sick of taking handsful of supplements and medication all the time. Sometimes I become erratic out of frustration, and then notice the difference and go back to it. such a conflict. Obviously taking them is a daily reminder of illness, which is psychologically draining. But it is what it is, I guess. I can tell you, though, that my sister-in-law just went through chemotherapy and all that that entails and when she came out the other side of it, she was complaing about her fingernails being so weak etc., and of course her hair had suffered drastically from the chemicals. So I suggested she try MSM, which I get at Trader Joe's. She's been taking it for about 3 months now and says that, yes, the fingernails are growing quickly and dramatically improved ! That makes me so happy for her. And I assume that the improvement in strength in the fingernails is an overt sign of improvement in other tissues. And I do seem to see an increase in short hair frizz in my long hair, which I HOPE is the little guys making a modest come back.
I don't notice that most fabric makes me itch, although on the few occasions I've worn pantyhose lately, THEY seem to cause it ! It's really more the hair itself.I'm always twisting it up on the tiop of my head when I'm trying to read in bed at night or it starts itching my neck like crazy. I sure don't remember thst happening previously in my life, and I've always kept my hair below my shoulders, otherwise it sticks straight out and I look like I had a white-person-'fro.
You too, hang in there. I have a scrip for new FREE tests from my gyno, haven't had them done since May as I was supposedly stable. We'll see.
Good wishes.
Goggle gelatin supplements. Comes in a tablet - for hair, nails, and colegin (spelling).
You made me cry.
Thank GOD there is someone else out there that is experiencing the same things I am. We are NOT crazy! Its is NOT in our heads!
I started taking more T3, and re-taking Primrose Oil. I am also very careful about when I take my multivitamin, as I have heard that can interfere with thyroid drug absorption.
I have honestly never heard of MSM, (did it make the itching on you skin stop?) but I Googled it immediately, and have my car keys next to me right now. As soon as I finish this post, I am going out to buy some. Hopefully your tip will be some kind of help. Right now I'd take the cessation of hair loss, even if my texture never comes back. At least I'd have hair, which at this rate is questionable if my hair loss continues.
I do have a few questions for you:
I, too, have little to no hair on my body, including my arms, and my eyelashes are very, very short and thin. About the itching...my back itches all the time! Does yours? At some point I asked a doctor if it was possible to be allergic to one's own hair, but he said it was highly unlikely, as my arms and legs don't itch. (but I wear short sleeves and most of the time skirts, so the only place I have any kind of fabric touching me is on my back....just saying.
Hang in there and let me know how you are doing. Someone cares about you.
Thank GOD there is someone else out there that is experiencing the same things I am. We are NOT crazy! Its is NOT in our heads!
I started taking more T3, and re-taking Primrose Oil. I am also very careful about when I take my multivitamin, as I have heard that can interfere with thyroid drug absorption.
I have honestly never heard of MSM, (did it make the itching on you skin stop?) but I Googled it immediately, and have my car keys next to me right now. As soon as I finish this post, I am going out to buy some. Hopefully your tip will be some kind of help. Right now I'd take the cessation of hair loss, even if my texture never comes back. At least I'd have hair, which at this rate is questionable if my hair loss continues.
I do have a few questions for you:
I, too, have little to no hair on my body, including my arms, and my eyelashes are very, very short and thin. About the itching...my back itches all the time! Does yours? At some point I asked a doctor if it was possible to be allergic to one's own hair, but he said it was highly unlikely, as my arms and legs don't itch. (but I wear short sleeves and most of the time skirts, so the only place I have any kind of fabric touching me is on my back....just saying.
Hang in there and let me know how you are doing. Someone cares about you.
YES! but...sigh...
I'm taking so many pills now.. Armour twice a day, Synthroid in the A.M., a multivitamin, biotin, and I just started taking Evening Primrose Oil again later in the day.
I don't know...with hair it's such a long wait to see any results, if at all. Keep your fingers crossed, and thank you again.
I'm taking so many pills now.. Armour twice a day, Synthroid in the A.M., a multivitamin, biotin, and I just started taking Evening Primrose Oil again later in the day.
I don't know...with hair it's such a long wait to see any results, if at all. Keep your fingers crossed, and thank you again.
I just wanted to say that I understand what you are going through because the same thing happened to me. I also had MASSES of curly hair and now have about half of it, with bald patches in the front and a distinct change in texture. You are the first person on the forum who has described a symptom that I also had when my hair first started falling out, before I was put on medication : burning and itching scalp. Sometimes I felt that even my hair lying against my neck was making my skin burn and itch. There was no dandruff or anything like that, but I got weird painful bumps like clogged follicles or something. I've had several episodes of this and no one has ever been able to tell me why. It almost felt like I was allergic to myself, but my Hashi's antibody tests are always fine.
Like you, I had trouble getting anyone to take this seriously. My first endo said that I was just having trouble "getting older" and that "anyone would kill for hair like yours." I once took a 1/2 full small ziploc bag full of golfball sized clumps of hair, which had all fallen out in the shower in the course of 10 days, to another endo ! He didn't seem concerned at all. And my hair was pitifully dry (as was my skin, painfully so, and still is) and if I was walking in the sun I could see through the shadow of my hair it was so thin.
Every time some idiot endo would lower my meds because of my low TSH (and I have nodules on both lobes, they finally discovered), I'd go through another episode of hair loss. And it's not just my head hair that fell out.....most of my eyebrows grew back after I was finally on both T3 and T4, but my eyelashes are very sparse and my body hair is practically non-existent.
The last dermatologist I saw said I have male pattern baldness and that I should just use Rogaine ! But like you there is no history of that in my family....even my Dad at 92 still has most of his hair and both my brothers' hair is intact. My Mom had a lovely full head of hair until she got Alzheimer's at 81...and I really think that what she had was undiagnosed hypothyroidism, the problem of conversion that I seem to have. Untreated, myxedema mimics psychosis and induces hallucinations, and we all know about brain fog and depression etc. She even had the typical thyroid rashes, as do I.
I am supposedly stable on my meds now, with the FREE T4 and FREE T3 in the proper range....but my hair just keeps getting thinner and patchier and I haven't lost the cottage cheese look from the myxedema and still have swollen extremities. I don't know, I'm just discouraged.
I can tell you that the ridging and spooning of your fingernails can be symptoms of hypothyroidism. There's plenty of literature about it online complete with pictures. Mine, which have always been strong, were peeling and cracking down the ridges into the quick , with dry callus-like skin around the edges, and the spooning in both of my thumbnails progressed to the point that the depressions could have held water. That has noticeably improved now that I am on more medication.
There are supplements for the hair and nails that I take that seem to help, at least I notice a decline if I don't take them for a while :
MSM......I would say this is the one that makes the most difference
Biotin
Silica
Evening Primrose Oil
I hope you are feeling better soon, and that both of us can get some semblance of our crowning glory back.
All the best, I look forward to reading about what you find out.
Like you, I had trouble getting anyone to take this seriously. My first endo said that I was just having trouble "getting older" and that "anyone would kill for hair like yours." I once took a 1/2 full small ziploc bag full of golfball sized clumps of hair, which had all fallen out in the shower in the course of 10 days, to another endo ! He didn't seem concerned at all. And my hair was pitifully dry (as was my skin, painfully so, and still is) and if I was walking in the sun I could see through the shadow of my hair it was so thin.
Every time some idiot endo would lower my meds because of my low TSH (and I have nodules on both lobes, they finally discovered), I'd go through another episode of hair loss. And it's not just my head hair that fell out.....most of my eyebrows grew back after I was finally on both T3 and T4, but my eyelashes are very sparse and my body hair is practically non-existent.
The last dermatologist I saw said I have male pattern baldness and that I should just use Rogaine ! But like you there is no history of that in my family....even my Dad at 92 still has most of his hair and both my brothers' hair is intact. My Mom had a lovely full head of hair until she got Alzheimer's at 81...and I really think that what she had was undiagnosed hypothyroidism, the problem of conversion that I seem to have. Untreated, myxedema mimics psychosis and induces hallucinations, and we all know about brain fog and depression etc. She even had the typical thyroid rashes, as do I.
I am supposedly stable on my meds now, with the FREE T4 and FREE T3 in the proper range....but my hair just keeps getting thinner and patchier and I haven't lost the cottage cheese look from the myxedema and still have swollen extremities. I don't know, I'm just discouraged.
I can tell you that the ridging and spooning of your fingernails can be symptoms of hypothyroidism. There's plenty of literature about it online complete with pictures. Mine, which have always been strong, were peeling and cracking down the ridges into the quick , with dry callus-like skin around the edges, and the spooning in both of my thumbnails progressed to the point that the depressions could have held water. That has noticeably improved now that I am on more medication.
There are supplements for the hair and nails that I take that seem to help, at least I notice a decline if I don't take them for a while :
MSM......I would say this is the one that makes the most difference
Biotin
Silica
Evening Primrose Oil
I hope you are feeling better soon, and that both of us can get some semblance of our crowning glory back.
All the best, I look forward to reading about what you find out.
Thank you so much for all your help. I cannot tell you how much better I mentally feel knowing someone doesn't think I'm insane, and has given me solid medical advice. I will begin taking the Armour 1/2 in the a.m., and the other half at noon.
My hair gas already begun to slow it's loss. I know this because I count the hairs in my comb. I know that sounds crazy, but I started to question my own sanity when Dr. after Dr. told me my fair was fine. Anyway, I only had 31 hairs this time, much less than the 50-60 plus I usually shed after washing/combing my hair.
I'll keep you updated if I see any regrowth.
Again, thank you so very, very much. You made a BIG difference in someones life!
My hair gas already begun to slow it's loss. I know this because I count the hairs in my comb. I know that sounds crazy, but I started to question my own sanity when Dr. after Dr. told me my fair was fine. Anyway, I only had 31 hairs this time, much less than the 50-60 plus I usually shed after washing/combing my hair.
I'll keep you updated if I see any regrowth.
Again, thank you so very, very much. You made a BIG difference in someones life!
T3 takes some getting used to, and the 18 mcg of it that's in the Armour is a pretty hefty dose to start on. I'm sure that's what's causing your tachycardia, heat intolerance, dizziness, etc...and relieving the gut issues.
Doctors never want to trust home devices, which is ridiculous. My BP monitor is spot on, and I'm sure yours is, too.
I think it would definitely help to split the Armour. T3 has a very short half life. If your cells don't use it, your body neutralizes it very quickly (in a matter of hours). So, most people take half their dose first thing in the morning and the other half late morning or early afternoon (depending on their schedules, especially wake/sleep schedule and when they find it best to time it to avoid the letdown after the morning dose). It takes a little personal experimentation to find the best time. I'd try soon after lunch as a starting point if I were you. You want to avoid late in the day since T3 can disturb sleep.
If you take the whole dose in one swell foop, you end up with a "rush" in the morning and a letdown by afternoon. Taking multiple doses evens out the peaks and valleys. Also, a good part is getting wasted because if your body doesn't use it, it gets flushed.
Try that...I bet it will help.
Doctors never want to trust home devices, which is ridiculous. My BP monitor is spot on, and I'm sure yours is, too.
I think it would definitely help to split the Armour. T3 has a very short half life. If your cells don't use it, your body neutralizes it very quickly (in a matter of hours). So, most people take half their dose first thing in the morning and the other half late morning or early afternoon (depending on their schedules, especially wake/sleep schedule and when they find it best to time it to avoid the letdown after the morning dose). It takes a little personal experimentation to find the best time. I'd try soon after lunch as a starting point if I were you. You want to avoid late in the day since T3 can disturb sleep.
If you take the whole dose in one swell foop, you end up with a "rush" in the morning and a letdown by afternoon. Taking multiple doses evens out the peaks and valleys. Also, a good part is getting wasted because if your body doesn't use it, it gets flushed.
Try that...I bet it will help.
How do I feel? My heart is racing, I can't sleep. I feel hot and dizzy all the time. I took my blood pressure (at home) and it's 147 over 84. July 12th, my last visit to my my doctor, it was (and usually is around) 128 over 70.
One good thing, I will say that particular "intestinal issues" (common to hypothyroid sufferers) have cleared up for the first time in 10 years. It's a bad pun, but, what a relief.
I called my doctor and she asked me
1.) how reliable my blood pressure device was, if I used it before, or often
2.)She told me if I they symptoms got worse, or if my blood pressure went over 160 or over 90, to come in right away, but she told me that my blood pressure issues should clear up, but that I should come in Monday morning, just in case.
I do not split the Armour. Would that help? I take both the Synthroid and Armour at the same time in the A.M., and boy, does it make my heart race.
One good thing, I will say that particular "intestinal issues" (common to hypothyroid sufferers) have cleared up for the first time in 10 years. It's a bad pun, but, what a relief.
I called my doctor and she asked me
1.) how reliable my blood pressure device was, if I used it before, or often
2.)She told me if I they symptoms got worse, or if my blood pressure went over 160 or over 90, to come in right away, but she told me that my blood pressure issues should clear up, but that I should come in Monday morning, just in case.
I do not split the Armour. Would that help? I take both the Synthroid and Armour at the same time in the A.M., and boy, does it make my heart race.
You switched from 100 mcg Synthroid to 120 mg Armour plus 25 mcg Synthroid. So, your T4 has been held steady at almost exactly 100 mcg , and you've added in approximately 18 mcg of T3. That should raise your FT3 considerably...hopefully not too much. It may be exactly what you need to get rid of the rest of your symptoms.
Do you split the Armour into two half doses?
How are you doing on it?
Do you split the Armour into two half doses?
How are you doing on it?
What about vitamins. I had different thyroid issues for you, but ended up with the same issues. and my hair is fine and no body to start with, but I had a lot of it and it was always soft and shiny. after thyroid issues and being put on synthroid, my hair was falling out. Every morning I was pulling a hundred + hairs out of the bathtub. Yes I counted. LOL it was tramatizing. I started taking a good hair and nail vitamin. I have been told that prenatals are great, but I haven't gone there. It's been three and a half years and for the last year and a half, the guy that does my hair is like "OMG your hair...it's so healthy and shiny again. It's thicker and a lot more of it." So it's working. Before the ones i picked out of the tub nearly needed to be seen in a microscope. So very thin.
I was on Synthroid 0.1 mg, or 100 MCG. I have blood work done every year, and get a script from an endocrinologist. I have been getting Synthroid (or it's generic equivalent, same strength) for over 10 years.
And what had you been on previously? Was that before this blood work or in response to this blood work you just posted?
OK, here's what my Dr. put me on when I saw her July12th:
Armour 120 mg tab AND
Synthroid 25 MCG tab
I have to go back in four weeks and have another blood test.
Armour 120 mg tab AND
Synthroid 25 MCG tab
I have to go back in four weeks and have another blood test.
Thanks!
Your FT4 is at 30% of range, and we use a target of 50% until you find where you feel best (don't have symptoms). Some people need to be a little higher than 50%, some a little lower, but you have a ways to go to get there.
Your FT4 is at 58% of range, and some of us have to be in the upper third (>67%) before symptoms are relieved. Once again, there's room for improvement.
The balance of your FT3 to FT4 is good, however, so there's no obvious conversion problem apparent at this time. I don't see the need to add T3 to your meds (just my opinion, of course).
Also, I don't see your reverse T3 as a problem.
Do you have other hypo symptoms? Anything at all you can bonk your doctor over the head with to get him to increase your meds? I think all you need is an increase to nudge your FT3 and FT4 up a little more.
How much Synthroid do you take currently? Do you have Hashi's?
Your FT4 is at 30% of range, and we use a target of 50% until you find where you feel best (don't have symptoms). Some people need to be a little higher than 50%, some a little lower, but you have a ways to go to get there.
Your FT4 is at 58% of range, and some of us have to be in the upper third (>67%) before symptoms are relieved. Once again, there's room for improvement.
The balance of your FT3 to FT4 is good, however, so there's no obvious conversion problem apparent at this time. I don't see the need to add T3 to your meds (just my opinion, of course).
Also, I don't see your reverse T3 as a problem.
Do you have other hypo symptoms? Anything at all you can bonk your doctor over the head with to get him to increase your meds? I think all you need is an increase to nudge your FT3 and FT4 up a little more.
How much Synthroid do you take currently? Do you have Hashi's?
T4, Free 1.1 0.8-1.8 ng/gL
T3, Free 3.4 2.3-4.2 pg/mL
T3, Reverse 23 11-32 ng/dL
TSH 1.97 mIU/L in range
> or = 20 Years 0.40-4.50
Does that help? Thank you so much.
T3, Free 3.4 2.3-4.2 pg/mL
T3, Reverse 23 11-32 ng/dL
TSH 1.97 mIU/L in range
> or = 20 Years 0.40-4.50
Does that help? Thank you so much.
Please post the reference ranges for those. Ranges are lab specific and have to come from your own lab report.
OK, just got my labs back.
TSH 1.97
T4, Free 1.1
T3, Free 3.4
T3, Reverse 23
TSH 1.97
T4, Free 1.1
T3, Free 3.4
T3, Reverse 23
We often hear doctors say that labs are ":within normal limits". Often, that's not good enough to relieve hypo symptoms. Ranges are very flawed for a number of reasons, and many find that FT4 has to be around midrange and FT3 upper half to upper third of range before all symptoms go away Hair loss is often one of the last to go away because your body thinks that your brain and heart are more important (and they are) and takes care of its vital systems first.
Do you have other hypo symptoms? What meds are you currently taking? Do you know if you have Hashi's?
Adding T3 to your meds or switching to Armour might very well cure your problem, but we can't be more specific without actually looking at your labs.
She might be right about your hair, but I doubt it...I've never heard of anyone who really got their meds adjusted right FOR THEM (not just in range) whose hair didn't grow back.
Post your labs, and we can make more concrete suggestions.
Do you have other hypo symptoms? What meds are you currently taking? Do you know if you have Hashi's?
Adding T3 to your meds or switching to Armour might very well cure your problem, but we can't be more specific without actually looking at your labs.
She might be right about your hair, but I doubt it...I've never heard of anyone who really got their meds adjusted right FOR THEM (not just in range) whose hair didn't grow back.
Post your labs, and we can make more concrete suggestions.
All teh doctors I saw told me I didn't need my meds adjusted because I was within normal range.
I also told all those doctors that my scalp itches and burns slightly, and the back of my neck and my back feels hot and itches when my hair touches it. My ears sometimes feel sunburned. There is no discoloration on my skin, but I can feel it. They told me I am imagining it.
I have changed shampoos, never dye my hair anymore, don't blow dry, curl or otherwise do anything to my hair that I don't have to...like brush it once a day.
I also told all those doctors that my scalp itches and burns slightly, and the back of my neck and my back feels hot and itches when my hair touches it. My ears sometimes feel sunburned. There is no discoloration on my skin, but I can feel it. They told me I am imagining it.
I have changed shampoos, never dye my hair anymore, don't blow dry, curl or otherwise do anything to my hair that I don't have to...like brush it once a day.
My current doctor gave me a TSH, T3 and T4. Also, reverse T3. She says they are all "within normal range". I am now 53. I started taking this when I was 43. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE OLD DOCTORS told me it's just "hormonal" changes. "As we age..." one of them told me.
They told me "it's genetic." Baloney. I don't believe it. My mother had a beautiful head of hair the day she died from Pancreatic Cancer! My grandfathers, father, brother, grandmothers, etc., all had a full head of hair when they died. (Brother still living...with a full head of hair. My OLD HAIR!!! Now he gives me grief by telling me he'll give me a transplant as he has enough to spare. Yes, That makes me cry.)
It's NOT hormones. I had those checked, too.
I had a potassium test. I've had adrenal gland testing, etc., etc., etc. They thought I was crazy.
This new one believes me. (Mostly because you can see my scalp clearly through my hair now. And I because brought my old hair modeling pictures.)She says that I should switch to Armour, and Cytomel, but that my hair may never grow back. This is the most depressing thing of all. I am seeing her tomorrow.
They told me "it's genetic." Baloney. I don't believe it. My mother had a beautiful head of hair the day she died from Pancreatic Cancer! My grandfathers, father, brother, grandmothers, etc., all had a full head of hair when they died. (Brother still living...with a full head of hair. My OLD HAIR!!! Now he gives me grief by telling me he'll give me a transplant as he has enough to spare. Yes, That makes me cry.)
It's NOT hormones. I had those checked, too.
I had a potassium test. I've had adrenal gland testing, etc., etc., etc. They thought I was crazy.
This new one believes me. (Mostly because you can see my scalp clearly through my hair now. And I because brought my old hair modeling pictures.)She says that I should switch to Armour, and Cytomel, but that my hair may never grow back. This is the most depressing thing of all. I am seeing her tomorrow.
Yes, I have seen fifteen endos, and two dermos. Every single on of them tell me it's not the Synthroid. I was switched to levoxyl, then levothyroxine,, then back to synthroid. NOTHING helps.
For the first five years, doctors would look at me and tell me my hair looks great. So, I started carrying the advertisement picture of me when I saw a Doctor. One even said, "Is this photo shopped?" NO!! I burst into tears. He didn't believe me. I didn't go back.
No one will help. They all say my levels are "within the normal range".(I have my levels checked every time I go to a new doctor, or my old "current" endo, whichever comes first -- which is about about every year it seems). No one helps.
I started taking this stupid drug because I was depress, constantly tired, had "brain fog", and gained weight AFTER delivery. But now I am ALWAYS depressed because of my hair.
I never wash it anymore. It's so brittle I NEVER blow it dry. I try not to comb it, and I try not to look in mirrors anymore. It's too depressing.
I get sucker punched in the proverbial gut about my hair every day. Here's an example: I ran into an old classmate of mine at a fourth of July parade, and she blurted out "OMYGOD!!! what happened to your HAIR?? Do you have CANCER??" Then she began to apologize, but she just kept making it worse by saying stuff like, "I mean, sorry for my reaction, but you had the most beautiful hair I've eve seen. I've told my hairdresser about your hair. I can't wait to tell her THIS!!" Yes, I cried. It's depressing.
What happens if I stop taking it? REALLY? I'll get depressed? SO WHAT!
For the first five years, doctors would look at me and tell me my hair looks great. So, I started carrying the advertisement picture of me when I saw a Doctor. One even said, "Is this photo shopped?" NO!! I burst into tears. He didn't believe me. I didn't go back.
No one will help. They all say my levels are "within the normal range".(I have my levels checked every time I go to a new doctor, or my old "current" endo, whichever comes first -- which is about about every year it seems). No one helps.
I started taking this stupid drug because I was depress, constantly tired, had "brain fog", and gained weight AFTER delivery. But now I am ALWAYS depressed because of my hair.
I never wash it anymore. It's so brittle I NEVER blow it dry. I try not to comb it, and I try not to look in mirrors anymore. It's too depressing.
I get sucker punched in the proverbial gut about my hair every day. Here's an example: I ran into an old classmate of mine at a fourth of July parade, and she blurted out "OMYGOD!!! what happened to your HAIR?? Do you have CANCER??" Then she began to apologize, but she just kept making it worse by saying stuff like, "I mean, sorry for my reaction, but you had the most beautiful hair I've eve seen. I've told my hairdresser about your hair. I can't wait to tell her THIS!!" Yes, I cried. It's depressing.
What happens if I stop taking it? REALLY? I'll get depressed? SO WHAT!
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