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Medications and hairloss
Thu, 11/30/2006 - 15:42Topic: Women With Epilepsy
I figured this would be the better place for this because men losing their hair, well, perhaps it's a prejudice thought but I figured women would understand me freaking out about it more.
Have you ever had your meds cause hairloss? How did you deal with it? did anything stop it? Slow it down even? Does it grow back?
The high levels of trileptal I'm taking are doing a number on my hair. I'm rather attached to the stuff so losing it is rather upsetting. On the plus side I now have an excuse to shop for hats and scarves.
Comments
Re: Re: Medications and hairloss
Submitted by Gina Marie on Sun, 2006-12-17 - 16:06
Hi, thank you for your reply. Did your doctors have a suggestion on how much to take of the selenium and Biotin?
Re: Re: Re: Medications and hairloss
Submitted by gretat on Thu, 2006-12-21 - 09:44
They are both over the counter and you can get them anywhere. You can talk to your neurologist first and see if he recommends a certain dose. I just take Whole Foods brand biotin 500 mcg and whole foods selenium 100 mcg. They take about 4-6 months before you see a huge change.
Re: Medications and hairloss
Submitted by gretat on Mon, 2006-12-11 - 10:47
I am a woman on Trileptal and it caused hair loss in me. Also when my hair thinned out it went from being curly to kind of straight. My neurologist and endocrinologist recommended the vitamins selenium and biotin to me and my hair is much thicker now. It takes about 6 months to notice a big difference.