Yes, there are some of us with chronic conditions on medication that can cause hair loss, skin conditions, dehydration, and absorption issues. I won't tag those posters, but hopefully they will chime in.
My experience: I shed like no tomorrow on my meds, and I am a slow grower. To combat this, I've started using sulfur again, deep conditioning much more frequently, and treating my hair like silk. I don't have MS, but those of us with autoimmune issues have similar symptoms and responses to the various medications, and the hair loss associated with the un-diagnosed period caused by stress. And I'm 24 with a whole lot of greys popping up out of nowhere. Eventually I will try to hendigo the grey away.
My advice: Try to stay as stress-free as possible and hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. It's not easy at all, but I'd rather be on helpful medication and alive, than sad about shedding hair.
I hope that helps and you find the medical answers you're looking for!
I'm sorry Shadiyah. Have you noticed any hair related symptoms yet? I started noticing my hair problems when I started losing weight rapidly. I wasn't absorbing vitamins and minerals, let alone properly digesting food, so thats when I noticed an increase in shedding (like 3x my normal shedding... and I was wearing twists!) and clumps of hair.
Since you're already on pain meds, which are notorious for causing shedding, perhaps your body chemistry allows you to retain hair? Have you done a CT with contrast yet? (Sorry, we can take this to PM if I'm asking too many questions)
My brother has had ms for abt 15 years. He's been taking some herbal stuff and prior to him finding his own remides he couldn't walk... Now he is running and doing well. I'll have to see if he knows anything abt hairloss and MS
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I was a "healthy" person until I turned 30. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, I started having one random symptom after another. I went through a long period of being tested for various diseases, seeing a long list of specialists, neurological exams, etc. I developed a lot of anxiety and went through a depression. Everything kept coming back fine aside from my vit D levels. I took an MRI and before I got the results, I thought it was MS but it turned out to be a "rare" brain condition that sometimes causes symptoms that mimic MS and other conditions.
I tried different medications for "pain management" and it's hard to say for sure if they contributed to my hair loss bc I wasn't taking care of my hair at all. I do tend to think that the meds played some kind of role in the very noticeable thinning that I was experiencing.
I do know that there are people who have MS and have lost hair due to the meds (as a result of the interferons that are used to treat it) but there are also those who have been treated and had no hair loss. It all depends on different factors.
I have MS diagnosed three years ago when I just turned 30. Last year I started taking Copaxone and did not experience hair loss (not a part of the typical side-effects). I stopped taking it for other reasons and started LDN (Low Dose Naltrexone) and doing fine with it.
I never heard of anyone having hair loss as a side effect from MS or any of the disease modifying drugs.
My shedding is mainly from having PCOS (diagnosed in 2000).
My brother has had ms for abt 15 years. He's been taking some herbal stuff and prior to him finding his own remides he couldn't walk... Now he is running and doing well. I'll have to see if he knows anything abt hairloss and MS
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My sis in law has MS and she spoke of hair loss and thinning.
greenandchic I am glad to hear you are doing well. well the side effect for hair loss is one of my other meds I am taking but so far so good and I just wanted to make sure with adding anything new maybe this time I may not get away with it.
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