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My hair has been falling out for a while too. My doctor says that it is a common symptom of Lyme disease. I have no idea what to do to stop it.
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rosesisland2000
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I'll be right back with a ton of posts on this subject...for some reason each time I've tried to post to you I've gotten an error and had to start all over again.
But, here's the link for doing a search on LymeNet and use the keyword, hair in the Subject only and you'll get the same ones I got. There is a great amount of info here already discussed on this subject and some are really good.
I just wanted to let you know that this is not a permenant thing and it will pass, too, with treatment. But, I've had three bouts with it myself...by three, I mean having it and it goes away and then months later it starts again.
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My hair was falling out for a few months last year (about a year into the treatment). I felt like I was going to be bold really soon... theh it stopped and I do not have much problems now.
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I had a lot of hair falling out before I knew there was even something wrong- now with abx its subsided somewhat but not all the way. Ive got black interior in my car, so i see hair everywhere. Ive read when your immune system is compromised your going to lose some hair.
gotta go-herxing bad chime
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My hair is falling out at what seems to be a faster rate than it used to. I have a lot of hair so it's not really noticible but when i take a shower it's very noticible that clumps have fallen out and are left in the drain. It's annoying but for me it's not a big problem.
Peace and healing, Annie
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hair loss and an acne covered back.. i can almost deal with the pain & the memory loss and every other symptom better than these 2! nope, i don't 'look sick'... i look ugly! :-(!!!!
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I seem to go through periods when my hair thins out and then kind of stops falling out and rebounds a little and then cycles back. My doctor said it is due to the Lyme.
To help keep my hair healthier, I am getting it trimmed every four weeks. Also we have shaped it into a shorter cut (a couple inches shorter than usual) to bring more body since it was looking kind of limp. Normally I have very thick hair, but not these days. Since it seems to rebound every now and then, I tend to think that this is just a temporary situation.
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As soon as I started a zinc suppplement my hair stopped falling out.
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rosesisland2000
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My LLMD, www.drcharlescrist, says to not obsess over this symptom. He, also, states that in all the patients that he has seen over many years, he has, YET, to see anyone of them go bald.
Remember we have a lot of hair and it really takes a lot of the hair falling out to go bald.
slcd, you asked, "So, how bad can it get? Am I going to wind up with a wig?!"
NO!!! and I take it by your question that you didn't look at the links that I provided. It's stated throughout those links over and over that you will NOT go bald. And, my LLMD, said I could lose more by obsessing over it.
I am currently in a cycle where my hair is again falling out...this is my 4th time over the 2 and 3/4 years of treatment I've had. I believe that Deb described it perfectly.
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My hair began falling out when I was 29, about 1 year post-Lyme. I have medium thickness hair but it is very fine texture, so it showed up bigtime. Every time I blow-dried my hair I saw more scalp. Tons of hair in my brush. I went to my internist who said it was stress. I didn't feel particularly stressed out at the time, so I went to see a dermatologist. He said he had seen dozens of people with stress-related loss and this wasn't it. It looked like male-pattern baldness so he immediately tested my hormones. Nothing unusual showed. (No testosterone.) We were at a loss (no pun intended). After a year or so it did stop falling out but unfortunately it never grew back (except a little bit of new fuzzy growth when I had IV Rocephin 15 years post-infection, but I could only get 3 weeks of IV). Finally a few years ago I chopped it all off and lightened it so it wouldn't be so evident. I have been sick as a dog for 20 years and am on SS Disability due to chronic neuromuscular Lyme, but I'd say it would all be happily manageable if only I still had my hair.
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