pcos and hairloss

[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?

[belle75]

As far as I know met helps with other pcos symptoms but not hairloss. I have just read on other forums that metformin can make hairloss worse, though the product information does not state it as a side effect. I have certainly noticed my hair falling off by handfuls since I started on met.
It probably sounds like I'm obsessing, but I've literally got very little hair left. I work in a professional environment and it's very difficult to do my hair in an appropriate way because there is none! I too don't colour my hair and have cut it very short. Just makes you feel the worst though, with everything else that is going wrong in my ttc journey

Oh well, must soldier on - at least I have the support of you gorgeous BB ladies!

[briggsy's girl]

soldiering on is the only thing you can do sometimes!

i too work in a professional environment, and i have made a habit of keeping my hair not short, but not long - never gets past my shoulders by more than an inch, but never so short i can't tie it back. i figure if it IS worn out (very rare, only at home) i don't want weight making it heavier and more likely to fall out!