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Friday, July 13, 2007

Estrace Day 3: I Might Go Bald Yet

Last October, when I cut myself off of my lexapro and synthroid, cold turkey, my hair stated to fall out. In handfuls. My hair is really long, nearly to my waist, and being that hair grows about 1/2" a month, that constitutes a few years of growth to say the least.

It fell out for nearly a month and it hasn't looked the same as it did before. I've seen a bit of growth since then in the form of whispy, unruly hairs that stick straight out when the weather is humid. I cut off about 5 or 6 inches of it back in November when it was at its worst. Lightening up the weight at the ends gave it some bounce so you couldn't see my scalp peering through so much.

I've let it grow continually since then and I've regained some length, but just today, in the shower, it seems as though it might have started up again. A few too many strands were on the shower floor...and then as I combed it out, a small handful fell out. I worked some leave in hair defrizzer oil and blow dried my hair. I don't like to blow dry my hair as it's damaging, but my psoriasis has been flaring up really bad in the last few months, and drying out my scalp fully after a shower helps to keep it calm for a few days. I kept gathering the strands and putting them in the trash. But there was more on the floor, on my pants, in the sink, and on the shower carpet.

I bravely looked in the trash to see just how much fell out today, and it was a decent handful. I am a bit nervous. I haven't changed my synthroid dosage and I haven't touched lexapro since last October and never will again after what it did to me. TSH checked in at 1.0 just last month so my thyroid shouldn't be "on the blink". I should retest it anyways, I guess.

One more symptom to add to my BBT chart to show the doctors when I go in for my baseline U/S next week.

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