Hair loss … any advice

[Louem26]

Hi,

looking for some advice 🙏🏼
Im in my early 30s I have noticed baldness/ thinning at the top of my head. The dr ran some blood tests told me that my vitamins etc were ok probably just stress! Has this ever happened to anyone and do you have any tips to help hair growth 🙏🏼?

Do you know what was tested and what sort of levels the results were?
Ferritin needs to be above 70 to support hair growth for example but is often marked ‘normal’ as low as 20. Normal isn’t the same as optimal. Low end of normal results for B12 and Vitamin D can also cause hair loss.admittedly it’s generally all over rather than in one patch. Would seeing a trichologist privately be an option?

Maybe If you get a printed copy of your results from reception and post it in Health someone could advise? there are a lot of really knowledgeable people on MN who may be able to help.

Highly recommend using rosemary oil, will take few months but really works! I experienced hair thinking and slight bald patch due to anemia and three months later could see the difference!

Unfortunately no they never told me what the results were just that they were normal. I have never actually heard of a trichologist I will look into this!

I think, if your blood was taken after 22nd November, all results are now available on line?
But just ask reception for a print out of your last blood test results if not. Ours happily give you a sheet and surgeries are no longer allowed to charge an admin fee to do this.

@RememberedForAllTheWrongReasons thank you I will ask! I’m thinking of seeing a dermatologist because where the bald bits are I feel like the skin sinks in like a sort of dent! It’s feels weird but no pain not sure if that’s normal or not.

My head looks like that too. I had one the size of a 10p,it increased. The other is about the 2/3 cm in diameter. Doc gave me steroid creme,but it made no.difference. I too got an auto immune condition- never made the link. Got some rosemary oil,but lost the momentum. Will resume. Am.menopausal.and major life stresses going on. Will watch this thread with interest. Good luck

What do you with the rosemary oil? Thanks

My mum had this when I was in school about 15 years ago, the Dr gave her a cream and her hair came back

I've had this twice, first time when I was about 20, started with tiny patches that grew and merged but grew back around a year later.

Second time was in my 30s after dc was born, not as bad just one patch for a few months followed by a second as first was growing back second grew back after about a year... nothing since. Now in 40s and not sure what causes it.

Expecting another episode with menopause as it seems to be hormonal.
First time coincidentally happened just after I had the contraceptive implant and second was after I had another fitted.
It may not have anything to do with it but I now have non the non-hormonal coil just in case.

I'm sure you know but it's called alopecia areata if you want to look it up.

Not 100% sure re rosemary oil.think.u need a carrier oil to.then add drops of rosemary oil to.

Just found this re rosemary oil.

I’d recommend a dermatologist tbh. I let my GP faff around for too long (years) with medicated shampoos, creams, vitamin & iron checks and supplements etc/ finally on NHS waitlist for dermatology and actually got fed up and went a saw a private dermatologist about my scalp and hair loss. The news wasn’t good and I was told with hair loss it’s critical to get early treatment, but that ship has sailed.

Hi @Kareah was it alopecia areata you had ? Did it get worse over the years and stop growing back ? I have been referred to dermatology after several episodes over 12 years and I’m not holding out much hope.

Hi @Kareah I'm afraid I'm in the same situation .... so many years now that I fear I've left it too late.
What were the issues for you according to the dermatologist?

@Bonheurdupasse & @Anlou19

Hello, sorry to hear you are in similar situations. I got my diagnosis letter yesterday from the private dermatologist. It was £170 for the appointment and well spent imho. She knew what it was using a handheld scope thingy to check my scalp. It’s a type of scarring alopecia so once hair is lost, it can never grow back. I’m so glad I went and did this. I’ve never gone private before ever, we have no insurance and money is pretty tight but this has been affecting me emotionally a lot and I only got on the NHS waitlist recently because I’d moved home and had a new GP that agreed to refer me.

I’ll quote you the key paragraph from the private dermatologist so you know my symptoms as well:

”Examination of your scalp showed inflammation, crusts, pus and scaling around the hair follicles affecting the top, back and sides of your scalp. There is a two pound coin size patch of hair loss on the right temporal area. The appearance is suggestive of an inflammation called Folliculitis Decalvans (FD).”

It’s so embarrassing especially trying to explain to a hairdresser that it’s not a catching infection. I wear a head scarf to mask how thin my hair has become.

The dermatologist sent a copy of the letter to my GP and also asked my GP to prescribe some medications in the same letter and I’ve done the request online this morning after calling the surgery to check how to ask for the prescriptions. I have a prepayment certificate so it won’t cost me extra for the treatment. I hope to be able to pick it up on Friday and start by the weekend.

The treatment is to try and stop the inflammation and other ugly skin conditions and by doing that stop further hair loss.
The letter linked to this patient leaflet as well:
www.bad.org.uk/pils/folliculitis-decalvans/

The website has leaflets for all types of alopecia so you could look up whatever you are suspected of having or perhaps by now have been diagnosed with. xx