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[Duncan21]

Hello everyone!

I started Accutane 40mg/daily dose 2 months ago. 3 days ago my friends noticed a bald spot the size of a quarter on the back of my head on the right side just lower then my ear.

This spot was the size of a quarter. There don't seem to be any hair follicals at all.

Will this heal? It looks horrible; I have short hair!

[tobias]

I'd probably be ringing my derm at this point.

[Unnamed]

Yah me too. Accutane can cause your hair to fall out, and most of the time, it'll grow back, but sometimes it won't. If you really have a bald spot... I dunno.

All I can say is what my derm told me. It's usually people who bald at an early age that experience this accutane side-effect. Is your father bald or balding? Or perhaps your grandfather?

[sverd]

Yah me too. Accutane can cause your hair to fall out, and most of the time, it'll grow back, but sometimes it won't. If you really have a bald spot... I dunno.

All I can say is what my derm told me. It's usually people who bald at an early age that experience this accutane side-effect. Is your father bald or balding? Or perhaps your grandfather?

Even if they were, this doesnt sound like mpb at all.

[Duncan21]

Yah me too. Accutane can cause your hair to fall out, and most of the time, it'll grow back, but sometimes it won't. If you really have a bald spot... I dunno.

All I can say is what my derm told me. It's usually people who bald at an early age that experience this accutane side-effect. Is your father bald or balding? Or perhaps your grandfather?

Even if they were, this doesnt sound like mpb at all.

MPB starts w/ receeding hairline and bald at top .. I think..

This is below the ear-line in the back right side about the size of a quarter. My dad is 50 and has barely any grey hairs.. my grandfather is 70 and is nearly bald.

I have grey hair in the top of my head but thats it and its only like 10-15

[lamarr1986]

Yah me too. Accutane can cause your hair to fall out, and most of the time, it'll grow back, but sometimes it won't. If you really have a bald spot... I dunno.

All I can say is what my derm told me. It's usually people who bald at an early age that experience this accutane side-effect. Is your father bald or balding? Or perhaps your grandfather?

No that's wrong, anyone is just as likely to experience this side effect, it is the rate at which people recover fully/partially from this side effect that is determined by the age at which you will of seen MPB.

To the original poster, your hairloss doesnt sound like typical accutane induced hairloss, you really should contact your derm. He may give you some sort of topical steroid for the time being...

[Unnamed]

Yah me too. Accutane can cause your hair to fall out, and most of the time, it'll grow back, but sometimes it won't. If you really have a bald spot... I dunno.

All I can say is what my derm told me. It's usually people who bald at an early age that experience this accutane side-effect. Is your father bald or balding? Or perhaps your grandfather?

No that's wrong, anyone is just as likely to experience this side effect, it is the rate at which people recover fully/partially from this side effect that is determined by the age at which you will of seen MPB.

To the original poster, your hairloss doesnt sound like typical accutane induced hairloss, you really should contact your derm. He may give you some sort of topical steroid for the time being...

Like I said, it's what my derm told me.

[DrNeal]

Hello..,

Look up alopecia areata........... might be reassuring for you......

get to your doctor for some treatment for it..........


-Dr.N

Hello everyone!

I started Accutane 40mg/daily dose 2 months ago. 3 days ago my friends noticed a bald spot the size of a quarter on the back of my head on the right side just lower then my ear.

This spot was the size of a quarter. There don't seem to be any hair follicals at all.

Will this heal? It looks horrible; I have short hair!

[soul78]

Sounds like it could be Alopecia Areata...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopecia_areata

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[m00sie]

I'd be inclined to agree that any drug related hair loss increased in people with a family history of hair loss.

Sorry to hear about your hair prob :S definitely seek some advice, better to be safe than sorry as they say.

[davidhatesacne]

i am experiencing hair loss and none of the males on my dads side are experiencing mpb and on my moms side they didn't start balding till 50 years old +...so i'd be inclined to disagree.

[m00sie]

Are you on accutane? they always say it comes from your mothers side of the family (from what i recall my hairdresser saying). Either way, you have a family history regardless of when it starts. The good news is that hair transplants are pretty effective these days (although costly).

[davidhatesacne]

i was for 4 months. your hair dresser is wrong, because i asked my derm this question (have heard it, also) and she said that's not true. the only person that's had thinning hair in my family is a 50 year old uncle. he is on a lot of drugs, not a healthy person, and his thinning is all over. (not typical mpb pattern) perhaps my family is prone to hair loss from medication, but mpb isn't a huge part of my family.

[soul78]

i was for 4 months. your hair dresser is wrong, because i asked my derm this question (have heard it, also) and she said that's not true. the only person that's had thinning hair in my family is a 50 year old uncle. he is on a lot of drugs, not a healthy person, and his thinning is all over. (not typical mpb pattern) perhaps my family is prone to hair loss from medication, but mpb isn't a huge part of my family.

First off, to the OP - you likely are not experiencing MPB or Accutane induced hairloss. If it is a bald spot in the shape of a circle below the ear, it is likely not induced by Accutane and definitely not MPB. Please follow my previous link to read up on Alopeica Areata and contact your derm asap.

Second, regarding MPB - it can skip generations, therefore even if people do not have any current relatives with visible hairloss, they can still have MPB from relative somewhere down the line who is now deceased. The condition is genetic and you can be a carrier of the gene without it becoming active, thus why some bald guys have parents with full heads of hair.

Researchers suspect that several genes inherited from both parents play a role in MPB, and paternal hair loss has been shown to correlate with chances of alopecia in sons while variations in the Androgen Receptor gene (AR), which can correlate with baldness, are X linked and thus inherited from one's maternal grandfather or grandmother or futher, the grandmother's or grandfather's parents.

The inheritance pattern of MPB is unclear because many genetic and environmental factors are likely to be involved.

[lamarr1986]

what me and David are trying to say is, we know our hairloss is drug induced and that we where experiencing NO hairloss before we started accutane, my close and distance family didn't start loosing their hair till much older and people like my grandfather still have a full head of hair... our hairloss has NOTHING to do with MPB, but sure overtime my hairloss may develope into it, hair follicles only produce 20 hairs in our lifetime so i will slowly become bald over time if my shedding continues at this rate...