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23 years old and so so worried..... (Cyproterone Acetate (Diane35))
posted by Catou 
, Montreal, 08.09.2006, 14:56
Tullip, losing hair after stopping a BCP is akin to given birth. Your estrogen levels in the body suddenly drop, and testosterone levels rise to what they were pre-BCP. These are your normal levels. However this sudden change in levels leads to a shed because the hair follicles reset their growth period. A bit like a clock and testosterone is what regulates the clock. Your hair will resume its normal pre-BCP shed frequency in about 2 to 3 months. You must be patient. However, some women have found that once on BCPs, their hair does not seem to stop shedding after the 3 month period. Apparently in some women, BCPs have the ability to trigger certain conditions where women experience hair thinning thereafter. I must say this is not the majority of women, but it can happen. Hair thinning very rarely leads to baldness in women. Just wait and see and enjoy life. Stressing over your hair will extend the shed period!
Catou
» I'm only 23 years old and six months ago I withdrew myself from Dianette.
» Approximately 6 weeks ago I started to lose my hair (a side-effect of
» withdrawing from the pill) - every day I have at least 10-15 hairs on my
» pillow in the morning. Everytime I wash my hair I produce a clump of hair
» and everytime I comb it, my hair fills the comb. My hair is looking
» thinner and thinner by the day. I'm even too scared to hug my boyfriend
» anymore cos I just leave hairs behind on his clothes!
»
» I'm seeing the doctor in two days time however I refuse to go back onto
» the pill, it's ruined my hormones!
»
» So my question is - what happens next???? Will I literally lose all of my
» hair? I'm so so scared I'm going to end up bald! Do women end up with no
» hair when they suffer from androgenetic alopecia??
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