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Title: Losing hair during flares
Post by: MissyLouWho? on July 21, 2012, 07:21:05 AM
I'm wondering if anyone else notices a pattern of their hair falling out during flares?  Before I got my symptoms under control I lost a ton of hair every day.  Started plaquenil and the same week I started feeling more energy I noticed I also stopped losing my hair.  Now that I am flaring, I noticed it's falling out in handfuls again.  I wonder if they are just coincidental or connected.

Anyone else notice this?
Title: Re: Losing hair during flares
Post by: mshistory on July 21, 2012, 09:26:44 AM
I've lost so much hair. It's just constant. It has gone through a few periods of less fall out, but has never completely stopped. It definitely gets worse with a flare. I sure wish I could stop it!
Title: Re: Losing hair during flares
Post by: CAT1962 on July 22, 2012, 07:15:49 PM
I just posted elsewhere about this. My hair is thinning bad. My family tells me ',"Only you notice it..."...Trying to to be nice, I am sure ...lol...EVERYTIME I talk to someone they are looking at the top of my head.  :'(

I am in theprocess of getting a new Rheumy...mine shrugged and said,  " No. Your thinning is from heredity....SS doesn't 't do that."...HELLO!!?? Yes it does.