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Old 01-18-2006, 10:40 AM   #1
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Accutane hair loss! please read and reply!

Has anyone on accutane experienced thinned hair? did it go away? how long? and has it ever gotten so bad that you got a bald spot? please reply! thanks!
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Old 01-18-2006, 03:50 PM   #2
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Re: Accutane hair loss! please read and reply!

i think my hair started thinning after about week 3...i say think because i didnt notice any extra hair fallout in the shower/in my hair brush etc. but it did feel thinner at the front (no bald patches). this coincided with a considerably less amount of oil production from my skin too so i couldn't be sure whether it felt different because of that?

either way i took the following actions and now my hair is back to normal (i'm week 9 now):
biotin tablet in the morning, vit b complex in the afternoon and use of nioxin shampoo, conditioner and scalp treatment every 2-3 days. serious hair conditioning is important.

i don't know which of these did the trick or if my hair got better on its own, i don't know. took a good 4 weeks to be ok again though. a good hair cut did it wonders aswell. also after this regime my nails are hard as rocks!!

sweetamy are you experiencing hairloss on accutane??
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Old 01-18-2006, 07:10 PM   #3
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Re: Accutane hair loss! please read and reply!

The whole time I was on accutane, I didn't experience hairloss. But I noticed that about 4 months or so after my treatment, my hair started breaking off very easily. I was pretty scared about that. It lasted like that for about 2 months and then my hair went back to normal. Pretty weird, but I just attributed it to the accutane.
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Old 01-18-2006, 07:20 PM   #4
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Re: Accutane hair loss! please read and reply!

I'm 7 weeks in and have experienced no loss thus far (I've been supplementing with Biotin, B Vit complex and using Nioxin since the start of treatment too).

You'll hear from many who do get hair loss, and not much from those who's hair was fine. This is merely because those with negative experiences shout louder than those who are happy with their treatment and have no reason to enter such discussion.

My derm. says he does see hair thinning, but it has always been reversible in his patienss, and it only occurs in less than 10% of cases.

He did say one thing however, which scared me a little. If you're a guy, and you are predisposed to male pattern baldness (the normal hairloss pattern for males who lose their hair as they age) and you do lose hair during Roaccutane treatment, the hair that grows back may be thinner than the hair you lost as it's pushed you forward a cycle (so, in basic terms, it would speed up the hair loss process). I don't appear to fall in to that category, as at 24 my hair is as thick as ever and hasn't recided at all (even though most males in my family lost their hair at a very early age, late teens for some - I think my mother has given me her full hair gene!).

So, that's something to consider if your hair has already started to thin naturally (perhaps start a course of propecia along with Accutane to provent that happening)

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Old 01-19-2006, 02:07 AM   #5
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Re: Accutane hair loss! please read and reply!

Actually tiramasu, i have been on accutane since June 05, i know, a long time. But my derms act like its not even any longer then its supposed to be so i have no idea. Anyways, just recently i have realized how thin my hair has felt, almost to the point where i am absolutely paranoid about creating a bald spot. It hasnt been an issue to this point so now that all of a sudden it is happening, im kind of worried. I just wanted to know if it is able to return to its normal thickness and how long that would probably take. Thanks so much for your replies and if anyone else has anything else to say, id greatly appreciate it!
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