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Every time I'm pregnant my hair grows!
I have had AU for 17 years i am now 27 . I have been pregnant 3 times and each pregnancy I have had my eyebrow (oh those beautiful things ) and eyelashes (and so thick and long REALLY long ) completely grow back but as soon as baby is born with in a month yup the are gone.
What's people thoughts on this?
I have this silly theory that if I was to take my fathers immune suppressant drugs my hair will grow back lol.( my father had a transplant years back )
I know this sound silly and I have joked this to my father (with him laughing and sayIng NO) but I never get sick , EVER ! I do get tired and over whelmed but never sick.......
But when I'm pregnant it's like my immune systems isn't as strong and I can get sick and MY HAIR GROWS
And NO I don't want any more babies lol as much as I really do want my hair back.
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Permalink Reply by Linda from Cincy on
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I've fairly recently been diagnosed with a form of alopecia that affects mainly postmenopausal women (frontal fibrosing alopecia). Doctors don't know what causes it but there's some hormonal component to this obviously.
I know it's not safe or smart to self-diagnose/self-treat so I'm going to an integrative medicine doc next week for hormonal testing.
Since progesterone is being produced like crazy during pregnancy (in order to maintain the pregnancy) maybe that plays a role in your hair growth and loss? Progesterone suppresses the immune system so your body doesn't reject the baby as a "foreign invader" of some sort, lol. Maybe you should have a hormone panel done to see if you're progesterone deficient/estrogen dominant when not pregnant?
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Permalink Reply by Alice on
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THANK YOU!! I going to go to my doctor and ask him about a hormone panel and maybe do a bit of a google search before hand so I can understand what he talking about lol.
Maybe it would have been a good idea to get that done while pregnant to see where all my levels sat, and then it done again post pregnancy . To see the difference that might be affecting my hair growth oh well to late now.
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You're welcome! Hopefully a hormone panel will give your doctor (and you) some clues about your particular hormonal balance (or imbalance) and it can be addressed. You'll also get a baseline and can retest in the future to track changes as you get older. Wish I'd done that a long time ago but better late than never!
I'll suggest if your doc wants to treat you with hormones that you do some research and consider using bioidentical vs. synthetic ones. The synthetic ones just don't work with your body as well and can sometimes cause other problems. Good luck!
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Oh and I might just add that in my 17 years of have alopecia I have never had any extra growth APART from in pregnancy !
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Permalink Reply by GardenJess on
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That's it--I'm having another baby! Well, probably not. I didn't have most of my hair fall out until after my third child, but I had some increased bald spots after the first two. I think pregnancy does dampen the immune response. I also have vitiligo, and by the end of my last pregnancy the backs of my hands, which had previously lost all their pigment, were covered with spots of normal pigment. I do think my hair, which never went away completely, would grow back more if I got pregnant, but I think that's a treatment with lots of side effects. :)
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Lol I'm so done on that band wagon but Wow GardenJess it really just amazes me how our bodies react differently in order to carry another little human being. I would be Very interested to see if there where any studies or notes gathered from woman that have Alopecia while being pregnant !
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Interesting !!! I'll have a bit of a google search . If you can remember what it's called that might help out a bit. Thanks for your comment x
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Hi
In my experience this is not unusual, the hormonal fluctuations that occur in pregnancy do often active or deactivate alopecia areata. I have met many mums that have lost their hair post pregnancy...which is really heartbreaking at a time when you are so very excited about being a new mum.
My daughter is on Immune suppressant drugs for her Crohn's disease....it isn't bringing her hair back. In her case she has only been taking these drugs for the last 6 months. She was also put on high doses of prednisone to get Crohn's under control...yes that did make her hair grow, but not enough so that she had full regrowth. She has alopecia for the last 11 years (she is now 23 years old). Before she got Crohn's she did not take any medications for her alopecia....but she regrew her hair 6 times within that 11 years (such a precarious, precocious condition).
It would have been interesting to understand what your levels were when your hair grew back and if they did change when your hair fell out again.
With regards to studies, I believe that Naaf has quite an extensive registry and they may have some information on pregnancy and alopecia. Through my experience there is definately what I would call hot spots in a woman's life as to when alopecia could become active....puberty, pregnancy and menopause. I notice all the time when looking after people with their freedom wigs.
Good luck with your research
Rosy
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