Sorry this is long but hoping someone can help! Started peri about 5 years ago at 47, had night sweats, immense rage but for the first time since i was a teenager my hair was amazing, thick and long and healthy which i attributed to a new diet and increased protein consumption. Went on HRT in May 2022 as rages were out of hand and sleep was awful. Had been a year without a period at that point so doc thought full menopause. The HRT helped other symptoms but i had very heavy bleeding which was unmanageable even when dose changed (started on 50mg evorel patch and 200mg of utrogestan tablet 14 days monthly, which doc reduced to 25mg of oestrogel to try and manage bleeding and same dose of utrogestan).
However HRT completely ruined my hair. It started as shedding which i didnt take much notice of as still had a lot of hair, but then got so thin and straggly. By March 23 others were noticing including my hairdresser that it was shedding really badly, and looks like Tef E when i have researched. Also after reading hormone repair manual i wonder if the new hair growth i had in peri could have been due to oestrogen dominance and not protein as i had thought.
Read threads on here of others experiencing hair loss on HRT and came off it as was terrified. Its not shedding as badly as it was now but still lose more than i used to when washing hair and it is thin around temples and any new growth is like candy floss and all fluffy and thin, and now poor sleep and rage back and i dont know what to do. Terrified to go back on HRT and lose more hair and wondered if anyone has had similar experience and if they retried HRT and/or managed to reverse hair thinning. Am trying rosemary oil, georgiemane and collagen but cant see a huge difference yet and wonder if that was the last hurrah for my hair. I have also read others say that oestrogen helps hair growth so wonder was it the progesterone that was causing and was my dose too high once my oestrogen dose was changed? Thanks for reading and any advice!