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Hair Loss possibly caused by Accutane

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(@jshreddit)

Posted : 06/08/2020 6:52 pm

Hello I am 21, I successfully went through a 1 year long accutane treatment and finished July 2019. After around 3 months in October I started to notice that my hair in the front was extremely brittle. After a few days, it started to fall out and I started to feel an almost swelling pain in my head which hasn™t subsided since. I™ve always had extremely thick hair, the first photo is a photo of October. A month later it started to go deeper into my scalp which is the second photo. Ever since then I™ve been losing about 100-500 hairs per day depending on the day, and it feels almost irregular sometimes like one day my head feels like it™s under a lot of pressure and I™m losing a lot of hair, and other days it feels like nothing and I lose nothing. Since then it™s got much worse and deeper into my scalp but my hair is also growing back in the area it fell out first so I™m not sure if it™s just some sort of shedding disease. I™ve been to a doctor and he told me that I probably have some form of telogen effluvium that may also be mixed with male pattern baldness. The days where I have hair fall seem to be getting farther from another but I™m just curious to if anyone else has experienced something like this, it seems like I can™t find anyone who™s had this same hair loss at 21 years old so rapidly. 

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(@owen2000)

Posted : 06/09/2020 8:34 am

I got this problem too but mine wasnt as bad as your, but Ive been off accutane for a year and Im still losing strands of hair.

No matter what dermatologists will just still shrug this off as nothing

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(@elcantaro)

Posted : 07/17/2020 6:32 am

Are you seeing regrowth?

Has the shedding stopped?

 

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