Underactive thyroid hair loss

[237SJ]

If you`re suffering hair loss due to hypothyroidism and you start taking thyroxine, does your hair grow back?

[Sqad]

It seems to be a thyroid day to day:-).

The hair will improve in quality, but lost hair is gone forever.

[237SJ]

Oh god, really? Does the follicle die then? I`d better get back to the docs and demand they do something about my low TSH levels. They keep flagging up `high` but they never do anything about it. Thanks

[dotty.]

I have been on thyroxin for an underactive thyroid for virtually 20 years, the best you can hope for is asdas sell Dove extra body shampoo. I have always had fine hair, hairdressers in my teens and early 20s never failed to comment on it, I suffered more than most due to the Barbra Streisand way we Were curly perm look, my condition was not diagnosed until just after my third child was born and I felt like death warmed up, my hair was the least of my worries. After taking thyroxin since 1987, my hair has not changed and it falls out with every shampoo, I was advised to use Johnsons baby shampoo when I was first diagnosed, b

[dotty.]

(sorry am in safe-mode and it's weird), but Johnsons made my hair look limp, since then I have always used a volumising shampoo and conditioner which works temporarily, because the hair is so fine, (I guess that is part of the problem) frequent washing is essential, except when I am on holiday, then it just gets neglected cos I can .

[237SJ]

Thanks dotty. I never did the Barbara Streisand look but I did have one of those shaggy perms when I was 15. It looked pretty good too (apart from the hairdresser insisting on back-combing it and I had to walk through Ilfracombe High Street with a huge afro). I`ve always had fine hair but plenty of it. I find John Freida Brilliant Brunnette volumising good.
When I run my fingers through my hair (as if I`m combing it with my fingers) there are always several hairs that come out. I counted them once and there were 120. That can`t be normal hair shedding. I need to get the thyroid situation sorted and hopefully do something before irreversible hair loss happens. Do you lose lots of eyelashes too? I do.

[nannymarg]

Hi 237SJ My underactive thyroid was diagnosed in 1993 when I was constantly tired and put weight on. My hair has always been thick and like you I lose hair constantly. But it seems to grow as fast as I lose it so no worries on that score!.However, my eyebrows have virtually gone, which saves the job of plucking them. I was told this was another symptom.

[237SJ]

Thanks nannymarg. That`s encouraging. Even though I`m losing hair, maybe it`s being replaced by new hair. I do have new hair underneath the fringe line. It`s just that you see women with almost no hair (usually on the crown) and I worry I`m going to end up like that. I have been using Minoxidil and did a test patch at the temples. It does seem to help but you have to keep it up.

[DTCwordfan]

You should get your thyroid levels sorted out - there's now linkage between them and Dementia/Strokes - my mother was diagonised with the Big A last week and there is evidence of a very minor stroke too, so that has been termed Mixed Dementia.....

I do not want to be alarmist but keep a close check of your blood pressure levels. Hypothyroidism has a lot of correlation apparently.

[DTCwordfan]

She has been hypo-thyroid and on leuvothyroxine boosters for yonks....

[237SJ]

Thanks DT. My blood pressure is fine. I`m in my 40s but I will keep a keen eye out for any signs of senility :-)

[lilacben]

I have had an under active thyroid for a few years now. But can honestly say my hair hasnt gone thin or come out in handfuls. My mum also had the same when she was alive but her hair went really thin.

[Jack56]

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