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Hi all! I'm losing my hair...I don't know, why? (I have been living with Lyme disease many years, lots of antibiotics, now I'm on bentzanzine bicillin im 1.2 IU x 3/weeks). I have brittle and oily hair now. Do you have any ideas, how to stop that hair loss? What do you have used to prevent hair loss? Any supplements? Treatments? Anything what helps? Is hair loss because of antibiotics or because of Lyme? There is on symptom-list: "unexplained hair loss", what does that mean? What kinds of possibilities there is to get hair back? I'm wondering, if there is something common with my PET -scan result and hair loss (metabolic disturbance on the right side of the small brain on the temporal sector and the thalamus) How I get my hair back to normal?
Thank you for any ideas and input!
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Bored, Propecia worked for me. Grew back most of my hair and now I am keeping it... Ed
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Melanie Reber
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Good evening Bored.
Hair loss is a very common symptom with Lyme and antibiotic usage. Here is an older post that has a lot of good advice...
Lymelighter
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LLMD said it's common w/Lyme. I was OK until I started Plaquenil. When I stopped it, the hair situation remedied itself.
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Don't know if you are a woman or a man, but I finally cut my long hair and it 'seems' to be falling out less.
Mine always seemed to fall out more during the change in seasons anyway.
Hope it grows back.
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rosesisland2000
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I believe as Melanie said, that this is a common thing among LD patients. My LLMD told me in all his 100's of patients he has seen over the past many years, he has yet to see anyone of his patients with hairloss due either to treatment or Lyme, to loose all their hair.
Over the past several years of treatment, I've had three (3) seperate bouts with hairloss. It does stop and it can come again. Lucky for me, I have a lot of hair, so when mine does come out in clumps, I don't get upset about it.
And, I, too, know that this is a temporary thing.
Rosemary
PS, I'd never use Rogaine or simular products since this is a temporary thing and will go away on it's own.
I've had hair loss twice with Lyme. Once pre dx once post dx.
The second time, I lost a lot of hair. I then started taking many vitamins. After a while, my hair ended up in great shape.
I attribute the hair quality mostly to Multi vitamin and mag, calcium and potassium supplements ie the electrolytes. Probably the B vitamins too. I take b complex plus extra b6.
Most people don't need to supplement potassium but I sometimes end up with a need for it.
I have long hair and the hair that I lost is growing back. The only problem is it's short and looks frizzy. I'm thinking to get layers to get it to blend in.
Good Luck,
Corgilla
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