Can you change hair texture with vitamins? Ladies just hear me out(PLEASE)

[Iluvsmuhgrass]

I've been taking msm for about a year and I love it. My hair texture has changed. In some areas I have the most beautiful spirals and coils but at the crown OMG.... the hair there squats down and cusses on a daily basis.

 

[locabouthair]

I think it's the illness that is changing the curl pattern. I have heard that chemotherapy can affect the texture of your hair as well.

 

[Pandora1975]

Chemo DRASTICALLY changes hair texture. My sis has lupus and every time she has to go through a chemo treatment, she has to be prepared to change her hair regimen. the Chemo changes her growth pattern, rate, and texture. She's gotten used to it though, and keeps it beautiful.

Vitamins, however, have never changed either of our textures. I have to say that the verdict is still out on chlorella though. I've been on it a couple of weeks now, and tonight my hair is ROCKIN!

 

[FlowerHair]

It's very common for those that have had chemotherapy to get an altered hair texture afterwards Sometimes it goes back to normal after a while, but most of the time the texture change stays. I have seen this with my own eyes in a friend of mine. She doesn't like her new texture (softer, thinner) so she wears wigs most of the time.

I'm very sorry for the loss of your brother.

 

[MAMATO]

Im going with curly diva and Mekya - it's not the vitamins -- it's the illness (virus). I have seen many AIDS victims (not HIV but AIDS) with this texture.

ITA

I've heard the drugs AIDS patients take change the texture of their hair. Also my cousin with lupus the meds she's on changed her hair from a coarse 3b/3c to a fine 2 type...

I am sorry in the case of AIDS patients I know for sure the change in the texture is not due to the meds. I have witnessed this same phenomenon 20 years ago in a poor country where the AIDS patients could barely get an Aspirin to ease their pain. By the end of their lifes, they all had 3b-cish type of hair. It is the illness, not the meds. Bottomline I think this phenomenon occurs when the immune system is at its lowest.

 

[Junebug D]

It's illness, not medication. Just like how terminally ill people may lose a lot of weight. The body is shutting down, not something to strive for IMO. erplexed The same thing is happening to my father (heart failure, diabetes), he is very ill.

 

[Almaz]

Did you brother have Cancer or something

 

[Iluvsmuhgrass]

My father was on chemo for five years (terminally ill) and it didn't change his texture. He looked healthy, even when he died. It was hard.

Sorry for your losses.

 

[peony]

I have lupus and when I was on the combination of Steroids and Plaquenil my hair texture changed from cottony 4 something to smooth 3 curls. I found it really creepy, (not the texture itself, the fact that it changed. The texture was fine, not better or worse, just different. But it was interesting that all of a sudden people started coming up to me speaking Amharic or Spanish. People read a lot into hair!)
A friend of mine said birth control pills changed the texture of her hair and since she is a curly short natural she went off them. The spiky look wasn't cute.

And when my aunt (may she R.I.P.) was on chemo for the first time her hair texture changed from 4b to loose waves. It never turned back even though she lived for a number of years after it changed.

 

[Aspire]

I've been taking msm for about a year and I love it. My hair texture has changed. In some areas I have the most beautiful spirals and coils but at the crown OMG.... the hair there squats down and cusses on a daily basis.

 

[keepithealthy]

I have lupus and when I was on the combination of Steroids and Plaquenil my hair texture changed from cottony 4 something to smooth 3 curls. I found it really creepy, (not the texture itself, the fact that it changed. The texture was fine, not better or worse, just different. But it was interesting that all of a sudden people started coming up to me speaking Amharic or Spanish. People read a lot into hair!)

A friend of mine said birth control pills changed the texture of her hair and since she is a curly short natural she went off them. The spiky look wasn't cute.



And when my aunt (may she R.I.P.) was on chemo for the first time her hair texture changed from 4b to loose waves. It never turned back even though she lived for a number of years after it changed.

My sister has lupus and we have noticed this at well. Her hair went from poofy 4a to really lose curly 3 something. I thought it was the medicine she was on. Sheis also taking Steroids and Plaquenil and has had some chemo treatments.

 

[dyh080]

My texture changed when I became semi vegetarian from 4a to 4a/3c with total 3c in the back. Even when I started eating some meat again, it didn't revert. I never heard of this happening before.

 

[tarheelgurl]

I know that cancer treatments can change your texture.

 

[longnstrong]

I'm an RN and have also seen this occur in dialysis patients aka end stage renal disease. I'm sure it's something that has to do with lack of nourishment. It is not a good thing.

 

[ONEBLESSEDRN]

The change in texture if from the AIDS medications. I can't remember which med it is...(its been a minute since I've worked in a hospital setting), but that is one of the side effects of a certain med(s) that AID/HIV patients take.
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