Need help - 2 month long shed

[frankdatank]

Hello,

 

I am in a massive two month long shed that is causing me to lose ~10 hairs every time I touch my hair. My hair is now extremely thin after two months of this.

 

age 37, been on fin of 15 years. I my second HT in Nov 17 and started rogaine again about a month after.

 

The only thing that I have changed is I've used Selsun Blue for the last 5 years and switched to a boitin shampoo around the same time as the shed started to happen. I realized this a couple days ago and switch back to selsun blue. This is the non medicaded version with selenium sulfide

 

I have been on this site for a while and have read a lot of threads and have never heard of any shampoo causing hair loss other than nizitrol.

 

Any ideas?

 

thanks

[frankdatank]

Any thoughts? No visiable scalp issues

[Melvin- Admin]

You may be experiencing a seasonal shed, or telegon effluvium which is essentially a massive hair shed. The causes of this range from stress to actual trauma to the follicles, some medication can also cause this. Are you going through anything stressful or have you gotten on any medications lately?

[frankdatank]

You may be experiencing a seasonal shed, or telegon effluvium which is essentially a massive hair shed. The causes of this range from stress to actual trauma to the follicles, some medication can also cause this. Are you going through anything stressful or have you gotten on any medications lately?

 

Thanks, Melvin. No meds. I was extremely stressed in the month of March. But April everything got better. Can stress cause the hairs to minaturize or just fall out? I've had both. In the past, I didn't see too many minaturized hairs, the minoxidil was doing its job.

[gillenator]

Sometimes the initial use of minoxidil and/or finasteride can induce a prolonged shed.

 

Doubtful it's the change in shampoo and also doubtful about having TE as that is very rare for a man your age.

 

In addition, stress alopecia usually manifests in a more patchy type of hair loss, not a shed cycle.

[pkipling]

I wonder if getting blood work done by your general physician would provide any helpful information, bc it's doubtful a shampoo would cause this sort of drastic change. Certain deficiencies can cause hair loss, so I would use that as a starting point to see if there's anything larger that needs to be addressed.

[gillenator]

And most health insurance plans should cover the blood work.