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I'm getting kinda scared. I'm lossing hair like crazy! Everytime I wash my hair I have hair running all through my fingers. This has been like this about 2 months but getting worse for about 3 weeks now. I'm afraid to wash or brush my hair. If this goes on, I'm going to be bald within another 2 or 3 months. Did anybody else have this problem and if so, is there a solution? Posts: 58 | From Andover,Ohio,USA | Registered: Nov 2003
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I know that there has been others who had issues with hair loss during treatment but I never saw anyone look into adrenal or thyroid gland functions being stressed out.
My last 8 months of treatments I started to lose the hair from below the knees of the legs, gone. this is one of the big symptoms of adrenal gland disfunction. I also started getting a lot of sweating from hands and feet, thought it was babs but it was not. I also had addtional hair loss on the head, thought it was just another part of my balding process.
Adrenal and thyriod are tricky to test out with medical diognostics so I went to my energenic tester and we found adrenal function was extremely low along with thyroid function.
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I have had this for a number of years. I attribute it to the Lyme and have noticed that in the last few weeks it seems to have slowed down a little bit. I had very thick hair, so it still looks OK, though there were times when I wondered when I'd find a bald spot!
Consider the adrenals as the other poster said, but also know that it should go away with Lyme treatment. I've been on abx since last August and it is only now improving.
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I'm just wondering, my doctor raised my doxy to 400 mg. a day almost 3 months ago. I was taking 200 mg. a day. I've been taking treatment for lyme almost 6 years with little improvement. Since he increased the doxy I've been getting headaches and chills. I also take amoxicillin, 2,000 mg. a day. I wonder if the increase of doxy has anything to do with it? Posts: 58 | From Andover,Ohio,USA | Registered: Nov 2003
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I also go threw cycles where my hair will fall out in large numbers.
my hair dresser told me the following:
dont use a blow dryer for a while( & if I have to use on low heat) or any hot irons or curlers. use a leave in conditioner no hair spray( they contain alchohol only to wash my hair everyother day or longer. not to brush my hair when its wet-use my fingers. not to use any hair ties or bands.
some of the above helps some not so much. I find if I wait long enough my hair stops falling out. Like I said it tends to run in cycles. Good thing about my hair loss is iit does grow back.
hope this helps Dana
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sorry double post
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Daisylynn,
I am not sure if amoxy and doxy are the best combination to take together. I am not a doctor and have no references handy on this, so this is just a question to raise, perhaps to ask your llmd or to look into. Will send any references that I find.
I recently started taking BioSil, a biologically active form of silicon. It is one of Buhner's recommendations, and is supposed to help with hair growth.
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Lyme is associated with alopecia (hair loss) in the medical literature along with, in Europe, documentation of some kind of possibly rickettsial infection called TIBOLA which has alopecia as a facet of presentation!!! Lyme related alopecia is reversible*)~)* *************************************
1: Wien Klin Wochenschr. 1999 Dec 10;111(22-23):976-7. Links
Diffuse reversible alopecia in patients with Lyme meningitis and tick-borne encephalitis.
Cimperman J, Maraspin V, Lotric-Furlan S, Ruzic-Sabljic E, Avsic-Zupanc T, Strle F. University Medical Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Alopecia occurring after febrile bacterial and viral infection is a phenomenon well known since the beginning of the century.
To evaluate the occurrence of alopecia in tick transmitted disease, 23 adult patients with Lyme meningitis and 71 patients with tick-borne encephalitis were included in a prospective study and were followed up for one year.
Diffuse alopecia occurred within three months after the outbreak of disease in 3 out of 23 (13%) patients with Lyme meningitis and in 40 out of 71 (56.3%) patients with tick-borne encephalitis.
The mean duration of alopecia was 2 to 3 months and alopecia was reversible in all patients.
PMID: 10666812
1: Hautarzt. 1999 Dec;50(12):897. Links
PCR detected Borrelia burgdorferi DNA in a tissue sample in pseudopelade Brocq Article in German
Kostler E, Hubl W, Seebacher C. Hautklinik, Krankenhauses Dresden-Friedrichstadt-Stadtisches Klinikum.
PMID: 10663027 1: Orv Hetil. 1997 Dec 21;138(51):3229-32. Links [TIBOLA--a new tick-borne infection] [Article in Hungarian] Lakos A. Kullancsbetegsegek Ambulanciaja, Budapest.
Twenty-seven cases of a tick-transmitted infection with similar symptoms were seen by the author in the last 14 months. These symptoms do not fit into the known tick-borne infections. The bite caused by a "strikingly big" engorged tick was almost uniformly located on the occipital scalp region. The infection occurred most commonly in young children: the larger half of the patients were less than 10 years of age. The main symptom, presented in all patients, was the enlargement of painful lymph nodes in the region of the tick bite, causing us to name the infection Tick-BOrne LymphAdenopathy ("TIBOLA"). The other major feature, presented more than a half of the cases, was a herpes-like eschar 0.5-3 cm in diameter at the site of the tick bite. The eruption could be surrounded by a circular erythema (6 cases). After healing of the eruption, alopecia remained at the site. The time from the bite to the first symptom varied between 1-30 (mean 8) days. Doxycyclin seemed to shorten the disease. The infection seemed benign since only 4 patients had high fever, while 3 patients had a low grade fever (37-38 degrees C). General symptoms lasted for 3-12 months. Contrary to Lyme borreliosis, which is highly distributed all over in Hungary, the new tick-transmitted infection seems geographically more restricted, with almost all of the patient reporting that the tick bite occurred in a 120 km wide and 200 km long region along the banks of the Danube. Most probably, the disease is caused by a rickettsia infection which is still needed to be proven.
PMID: 9454101
Spach DH, Shimada JK, Paauw DS. Related Articles, Links
Localized alopecia at the site of erythema migrans.
J Am Acad Dermatol. 1992 Dec;27(6 Pt 1):1023-4. No abstract available. PMID: 1479087
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