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Since 2 years am growing out my hair. Now my hair reaches my shoulders.
But, since three mount I lose my hair. I realized this one mounth ago, because I have very thick hair. Step by step I lose my thick mane.
Since this time I lose more then 100 hairs per day, sometimes 200..
After washing I have sometimes more then 400 hairs in my hands.
What can I do against this horror???
I started with daily 5 mg Zinc extra. Since three weeks I take daily 30 mg Zinc.
Since four weeks I take 10 mg Biotin extra and one vitamin tablet daily with all vitamins what I need for one day.
Since four weeks I take one tablet called “Propecia”. This tablet reduce the hormon Dihydrotesteron on the roots of the hair. This substance kills the roots of the hair.
How long needs to stop the losing of the hair?
Who has experiences with hair losing?
Please help!!
Uwe
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If it were me, I'd get on a Rogaine/Propecia diet.
What ist Rogaine?
It is a substance to stop to lose the hair.
Uwe
That's just not true. Both Minoxidil (Rogaine) and Propecia will stop further hair loss. In a majority of men, moderate to dense regrowth also occurs. So, use the modern technology that is available and save your hair.
I have some questions for those of you familiar with Propecia:
First, where did you obtain it and how much did you pay? (i.e., did you use the on-line pharmacies or your local drugstore?)
I also was wondering if those who have used Propecia started with short or long hair. If long hair, did you notice any "new" hairs that were visibly shorter than the "old" ones? I'm thinking about getting a prescription but would like to know about the experiences of other longhairs who've used this prescription. Thanks!
This is absolutely NOT TRUE!!!!
It may have been true 100 years ago, but not now.
It has been proven many times over that hair follicles react to certain hormones. Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) is what is called a paradoxical hormone, in that it causes some hair to grow longer and thicker, i.e. secondary hair growth such as beard and pubic hair. Scalp hair, however, if it is genetically determined, can have the reverse hold; in the presence of DHT, the hair follicle minaturizes.
The current thinking is that an individual hair follicle can go through about 25 cycles total in its lifetime. Since the growth phase of hair (anagen phase) lasts about three years (maybe up to five years), this means that an individual hair follicle will produce hair for perhaps 75 or 100 years or so. After that, the follicle will die and not produce hair. This is the subject of some research at the present time.
Many researchers believe that with the progressive minaturization of the hair and follicle, the growth cycle is shortened. Therefore, the 25 cycles will mean that a hair follicle that is subject to DHT-associated changes means that the follicle will just plain give out after perhaps 40 or so years. Those follicles are likely lost forever.
Minoxidil and Propecia seem to encourage the hair to forego this process, at least to some degree. As the researchers say, the era of ineffective treatment of androgenetic alopecia is over for good.
BTW, more and better treatments are on the way!!! (Watch out for hair multiplication. This involves taking your follicles, multiplying the outside the body, and implanting them later. A true cure for hair loss! A doctor named Walter Unger in Toronto CA is supposedly hard at work on this. See
http://www.walterunger.com/hair_cloning.html
Better things are at hand!)
You may not be losing hair at all! It is normal to lose up to 100 strands of hair each day. These are replaced by new strands that grow in in their place. If you have ten inch long hair, the shedded mass will be ten times as much as it will be if you lose the same number of strands and have one inch long hair. Also, when you have long hair, the strands are not so apt to fall out on days you don't wash it. They will stay caught in your mane, waiting until you wash it. They will come out then. That could explain why you have so much hair shed on days you wash.
hiya bill. That's a great article you wrote regarding choosing to be long haired as well as the preconceived notions associated with being a long hair.
I have the same problem ! :(
First of all, this is not a case of male pattern baldness. With male
pattern baldness you don't lose unusual amounts of hair:
dihydrotesterone does not make you lose hair, it prevents new hairs
from growing in place of the old ones. So Propecia is not likely
to help.
I tend to lose hair in the way you described for a few months after
having very high fever: the increased loss starts about 3 months
after the fever and ends in about 3 more months. The loss is never
severe enough to be noticeable.
If you haven't had a high fever or a protein-free diet in the
last few months, get yourself to an endocrinologist. Your thyroid
might be producing unsufficient amounts of thyroxine, which also
tends to cause this kind of hair loss. If this is the case, the
doctor will prescribe you thyroxine pills and your hair will stop
falling out.
But then again, for some people losing 100-200 hairs a day might
be the norm.
Grrr