My husband is losing his hair due to excessive testosterone levels, this is an autoimmune cause am I correct? I was wondering if cortisone shots would help him.
Thank you
I am not sure what you mean by excessive testosterone levels. Is he taking testosterone in large doses? Is he a weight lifter taking steroids? Are his testosterone levels high normally found as an incidental finding in a blood test? Has the test been repeated? What does your doctor say is the cause of the high testosterone levels? These are all critical questions that reflect your husband’s health that are pieces of the puzzle.
Now with regard to hair loss, testosterone does not cause hair loss unless there is a genetic predisposition to it or there is some other disease going on. If he has the genes for hair loss, then testosterone will be broken down by the body into DHT which will cause hair loss in these genetically prone people. If he adds exogenous testosterone treatments to his genetic predisposition, then hair loss will be accelerated.