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Hi all,
I am a 40+ female. Experienced intense stress last fall and have been losing hair non-stop since then (so over a year now). I have burning and itching of the scalp, scalp sensitiveness and I am losing hair all over. I have now lost 40% of my hair and my middle hair parting has started to widen but I am losing hair overall.
All checks normal except for a dip in estrogen - possible onset of menopause and I have started supplementing with Estrogen + Progesterone. My hair quality improved a lot with increased Estrogen but NO CHANGE in hair loss. Also, in most forums women don't report itching and hair sensitivity with menopausal/female pattern baldness/hair loss. Also, very few women report losing over 200 hair a day in a short period of 12 months.
Any men experiencing this? I have a hunch - this may be that my stress has led to most of my hormones being sacrificed for creation of only cortisol and somehow this cortisol production leads to some metabolic/chemical pathway that makes the hair literally drop off my head....this pathway might be similar across both genders.
Please write if you have had a similar experience - one paper I read talked about a male patient's recount of similar physiological symptoms.
I am a 40+ female. Experienced intense stress last fall and have been losing hair non-stop since then (so over a year now). I have burning and itching of the scalp, scalp sensitiveness and I am losing hair all over. I have now lost 40% of my hair and my middle hair parting has started to widen but I am losing hair overall.
All checks normal except for a dip in estrogen - possible onset of menopause and I have started supplementing with Estrogen + Progesterone. My hair quality improved a lot with increased Estrogen but NO CHANGE in hair loss. Also, in most forums women don't report itching and hair sensitivity with menopausal/female pattern baldness/hair loss. Also, very few women report losing over 200 hair a day in a short period of 12 months.
Any men experiencing this? I have a hunch - this may be that my stress has led to most of my hormones being sacrificed for creation of only cortisol and somehow this cortisol production leads to some metabolic/chemical pathway that makes the hair literally drop off my head....this pathway might be similar across both genders.
Please write if you have had a similar experience - one paper I read talked about a male patient's recount of similar physiological symptoms.