pcos and hairloss

[briggsy's girl]

i'm someone that tends to just tie my hair back and forget about it. never wear it out cos it's more obvious that way! i don't bother with head bands and things as i find they emphasise the problems. i find they draw attention to the amount of hair sitting behind it (my hair is fine as well as thin, so it sits funny kwim? i've hit the point where i just don't care any more, unless someone specifically draws my attention to it. i have much bigger worries in my life than what people think about the amount of hair on my head! they don't know my story (for all they know i could be going through chemo - and who the hell are they to judge), so i just get on with it

having said that, it's taken me a LOT of time to get to that point...

[belle75]

hi krysalyss,

Thanks for understanding . i will definitely try the scarf. i'm not really fashion concious or anything - usually tie my hair in a pony tail. but recently i've noticed that you can see my scalp with my front 2 and a bit hairs pulled back!! I try to be brave like you briggsy's girl, but some days (and people) can get me really down. That's when I feel the blues. I feel like i don't need this (nobody does) on top of the dieting, meds, charting etc while the biological clock ticks louder every minute!

Thanks for letting me vent, guys.

[briggsy's girl]

I try to be brave like you briggsy's girl, but some days (and people) can get me really down.

i don't know that it's bravery, just neccessity! i had to sit down and work out what was most important to me, and channel my energy into that, ignoring the rest of it! you're right about it depending on the day or person though - i'm fine most days, but when i have a hair cut, i get really self conscious (so SIL does it for me now)! my niece (who is 8) commented out of genuine interest as to why my hair was so thin, so we explained that i had a type of sickness that made my hair go thin like her daddy's, but that i was on tablets (met) to help (she stays over every few weeks, so she sees me take meds!). a childs innocence doesnt bother me. i've had other comments from people who should know better that have shaken me completely though...

[belle75]

Hi briggsy's girl,

You have a very mature, healthy approach to life and what it thows at you. Thank you for sharing your views. Hope it rubs off on me!

[briggsy's girl]

thanks Belle - it's taken a lot of heartache to get to this point - hope you don't have to go through all that!

[belle75]

Hi all,
just wondering if anyone has experienced increased hairloss after taking metformin??

[briggsy's girl]

i've been on Met that long that i wouldn't be able to say if the hair loss increased when i started it. technically, the Met is supposed to help alleviate some of the PCOS symptoms, so it should decrease the hair loss, but it really only focuses on the insulin resistance, so it might be doing squat for the hair loss - or making it worse!

i went to an endocrinologist just before i started on the Met - and he told me there are meds you can take to stop the androgens within your body (and the hair loss), but there's no way you can take it while you're still TTC as it would be highly dangerous to the development of any male child (sorry if i mentioned that already!) - so i take the hair loss as one of those things i just have to accept. i stopped coloring my hair after we got married as i hated the stained scalp and how obvious the loss was when i had darker hair, so i now just have my natural red... i guess i've started to do things to minimise the appearance, rather than trying to stop the hair loss kwim?