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Just noticed that when shampoo-ing and brushing hair, that I'm loosing hair....not clumps, just strans, but enough to make me nervous. I just started Mepron 3 dys ago, don't think that's it, been taking zithromax for past 6 months, and just increased to 500mg 1x day 3 weeks ago. does anyone have this happening as well?? Posts: 501 | From Hudson Ticky Valley, NY | Registered: Aug 2009
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sixgoofykids
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I did. I lost a lot of hair, before I even started abx.
How is your thyroid?
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I take thyroid medication, but that's always checked....every 3-4 months can abx cause hair loss?
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jenn that combo killed my hair.
I was losing small amounts before I started malarone + Zith..
but once I started that combo omg!
Six, Do you take synthroid? And when you had thyroid issues did you gain weight?
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canefan, which combo killed hair? mepron and zith?
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I did not gain weight, I had tons of GI problems so was not absorbing food. Also, I think babs caused weight loss.
I take natural thyroid, right now I'm having it compounded. I took Synthroid and Cytomel for a while, but switched over to the natural stuff when I got a new, local PCP.
Mepron did not cause any hair problems for me. I think it was more the malnourishment from the GI problems. It went away when I was on abx. Took quite some time for my hair to grow in healthy .... it was like starting over. I just kept it the same length for a couple years and kept whacking off the bad stuff. Now I've let it grow long .... because I can.
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just wondered how it was??....is it getting worse with the mepron or do you still think its the zith????
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I TRUELY beleive it's the zith...because I've been taking the zith for 6 month's now and just started MEPRON a few days ago. I noticed when washing hair and brushing the last 3-4 weeks. It's seem to slow down ...the last few days, but then again, I've not washed my hair everyday because I don't want to see it come out in strans. I did google "Zith and hair loss", and you'd be surprise that people have had this effect with only taking the z-pak for a few days, but yet hair loss a few weeks later..... go figure!!
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I lost about 75% of my hair over 2.5 years. I thought I was going to be bald. I really am serious. I went on thyroid meds and It stopped falling out. I went to my hairdresser the other day and she was in awe at how much hair I had. She even had to thin it out! It will grow back!
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merrygrl,
What meds did you go on?
And what eventually made you go on thyroid meds? (your LLMD?)
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My daughter is losing it on Doxy. I agree it will grow back.
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Same story as Merry and Six- hair was falling out, I had a low thyroid function problem as a result of Lyme, and the hair loss stopped after enough treatment for Lyme (I was on natural thyroid for a few months but that wasn't really when the hair loss stopped). It actually got better WHILE I was on Mepron. I was quite pleased to get a short 'buzzed' haircut recently where thin hair would have been very obvious, and find that there was no obvious thin spot anymore.
I'm guessing that maybe sometimes a herx could cause worse thyroid issues, depending on what your thyroid issue is? Maybe that explains some of the hair loss people have when treating aggressively?
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Maria,
My belief is that the herxs overwhelm our ardenals/thyroid.
Which is why a lot of people see their body temps drop low when they are detoxing/herxing.
So in th case of Lyme... this seems to be why many LLMD's and lyme patients turn to synthetic hormones.
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Actually a lot of people also see temperatures rise when herxing.
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LOL, I do wish merry would answer that question!
I decided to drudge up this thread cause I've had a problem with slow hair loss for a while now, and I'm hoping it's more Lyme related.
With me, I have a scalp that feels slightly raw. And, I've lost a little more hair on the left side of my head. And coincidentally, I sleep with left side of my head on the pillow a lot. So maybe, it's an issue with Lyme, scalp and circulation?
Maybe I should look into this thyroid thing. Oddly, the only abnormal that came up on my test was my calcium was a little high -- 10.6. Which, I've heard is a potential marker for a thyroid problem.
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