Month: January 2023

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Hair Loss from Ambien?

(female) I have been using Ambien for about 4 years. I am losing my hair and get tingling feelings and sometimes my scalp feels sore in places. Can Ambien cause this, it seems to have gotten worse since June when I had an MRI done of my head to rule out MS. What can you tell me. Thanks

AmbienI’ve not read anything that says Ambien (zolpidem tartrate) can cause hair loss. There are a couple of unverified reports I found online, but nothing in the official literature.

I can not comment on your other symptoms. Sounds like you already have an expert working with you, but based on the information you stated, your doctor must think there is something going on (since you were screened for multiple sclerosis) and you need to have a down to earth discussion with your doctor on the differential diagnosis here.

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Hair Loss from Alcohol Abuse?

I’m 43 years of age. I just quit drinking 6 months ago, my liver was in bad shape to the point my doctor didn’t think I was going to make it. Since then I changed my diet, abstained from using alcohol and anything else that might be hard on my liver. Blood tests that I’ve got recently show my liver to be functioning normal. My health according to my doctor is good. All symptoms like extreme bloating, sight loss due to water leakage from blood vessels, and anxiety attacks, which was the reason why I started to drink in the first place, have gone. The problem I have is that I’m losing hair in large amounts. I NEVER had any noticeable hair loss before and this started 3 months after all my symptoms of alcohol abuse were gone. I still smoke (trying to quit). I take vitamin supplements. my diet is good. what can cause this? Stress?

Diet and an adequate daily intake of vitamins are often a problem with alcoholics, and as you appear to have started to address these issues, it will hopefully become better in the long term. This is a complex problem in that you may have genetic factors in addition to what has impacted your general nutritional issues in the past.

A good examination by a competent hair doctor will show the degree of miniaturization and balding you may have, the status of your donor hair as compared with the areas of loss, and the presence or absence of a telogen effluvium can be evaluated. The long term impact of your past drinking history may still have ramifications for you. I can not help you more directly without examining you.

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Hair Loss From A Hair Transplant

Thanks again for your rapid reply. I have a question regarding “telogen effluvium” mentioned in an article authored by yourself and Dr. Bernstein, ‘Follicular Transplantation, Patient Evaluation and Surgical Planning’. (This was a very informative and helpful read) In the article you mention that existing hair in the recipient area could potentially be shed as a result of transplant surgery due to telogen effluvium. You conclude that “it is probably important to transplant enough hair to overwhelm any possible telogen effluvium that might occur so that the net effect of the transplant will be a positive one.”

My question is what exactly causes “telogen” effluvium? And whether there is anything one can do before, during or after the surgery to reduce this side effect and hence achieve better denser results. Since
this article was published in 1997, I was wondering if there has been more studies in this area and if anything can be done to prevent or reduce it.

The telogen effluvium that we have seen with what we used to call ‘Hair Transplant Shock Hair Loss’ can be largely prevented today with Propecia, with which we had little experience in 1997 when the articles were written. We have found that this drug will protect much of the hair that is impacted by genetic balding against the ‘shock hair loss’ we used to see. If the hair that falls out is the permanent hair (which happens rarely), it will usually come back. If “shock hair loss” occurs in women, I have never seen it not return. The cause of telogen effluvium is not known. Most of my views on it are empirical ones that, from a scientific viewpoint, are not proven but it allows me to explain the process to patients and to myself.

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Hair loss following rapid weight loss

I have been shedding hair like crazy during the last month. It may be from shock due to losing 10 lbs of weight but I don’t know how rapidly I lost the weight. I am eating less carbs and more protein though. If the hair loss is due to shock how do I reverse this? I don’t want to start eating loads and regain the weight.

Rapid hair loss following a loss of rapid weight loss is common. If you have the genes for hair loss, then the hair loss induced by the weight loss may not be reversible in men.


2020-12-21 11:44:45Hair loss following rapid weight loss

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Hair Loss Following Pregnancy

Hello,
I recently had a baby at 28 weeks, due to a serious kidney infection that was almost fatal. since then we’ve been doing wonderful. Though, for the last month I have been noticing excessive hair loss. I know its probably due to a serious infection or hormonal but, how long do you think it will last and could I go bald before it then? Please help me!!!!

Hair loss following pregnancy is not uncommon and can be expected to reverse in most women within a year or so. In addition, I am sure that your serious illnesses contributed to the hair loss as well. You must show patience while you are going through this waiting process. I am assuming that you did not have a hair loss problem prior to the pregnancy. If this is incorrect, then I would have to know more about your history.

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Hair loss following a hairline advancement in female

Hair loss is not uncommon following a hairline advancement surgery in a female which will reveal the scar that was made at the time of the surgery. Matter of fact, this can happen with almost any facial surgery and I have seen this in many face lift and brow lift female patients. A hair transplant is the only solution for this which will bury the scar in the transplanted hair and the hairline can be moved further forward at the same time.


2018-02-07 12:22:18Hair loss following a hairline advancement in female

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Hair Loss During and After Illness

a month ago i was very sick from pneomonia, fever of 105 f. i was taking high doses of ibuprofen (800mg) and antibiotics. while i was sick i noticed scalp hair and eyebrow shedding. a week after the illness i went to the dermatologist, the dermatologist told me that the hair loss was related to my illness she said that it will go back to normal. its been a month and i still losing scalp hair and eyebrow hair. my hair loss is moderate.

Is it normal to lose hair during illness and continue shedding hair after i recover from the illness? Thanks for the time.

Hair loss from physical and emotional stress can be temporary, but it can take months for recovery. Usually it takes about one year. I am assuming that you are a female. If you are a male, a return to your pre-illness state may not occur if your genetic balding process was triggered.


2009-11-23 09:23:45Hair Loss During and After Illness

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Hair Loss in My Crown After I Had a Frontal Hair Transplant (Photo)

I have been developing hair loss in my crown after I had a frontal hair transplant 9 months ago. Why is this happening to me?

Hair loss is a progressive process, so hair loss in men is not unusual after having a hair transplant. It can accelerate the hair loss process that is destined to happen anyway. Your hair loss is unique because it appears to be in the nape of the neck, unless that area was involved in the donor area work. Go back and see your doctor and consider taking medications like Finasteride.


2018-06-22 09:14:04Hair Loss in My Crown After I Had a Frontal Hair Transplant (Photo)

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Hair loss can occur on one side of the scalp that is exposed to more sun than the other side

This happens when a person drives a car or truck for a living, the side on the window gets more sun exposure than the other side causing damage from to the skin and more hair loss. We can see this very well in the photo below, of a truck driver whose face aged more on the drivers side of his face. For people who drive in Australia, the opposite occurs because they drive on the other side of the road.