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Re: To Beta

From: From Beta to Sophea.....a response to all your questions
Date: 2/7/2004
Time: 12:32:08 AM
Remote Name: 64.162.10.204

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Hi Sophea,

I'll do my best to sort through all of the information you gave me. Your family history sure looks hopeful. Mine did too, until I accepted the fact that my hair loss was coming from only one grandparent's family. Just my luck!! My parents didn't have any significant hair problems. Sometimes this problem skips a generation. Make sure none of your grandparents or their immediate family members had it. If not, then something else is going on. It must be really frustrating to have older brothers with a ton of hair while your's is falling out! There could be a gene back a generation or two in your dad's family, and maybe your brothers got lucky and took after your mom. I hope this is not what is going on.

Actually, you can have fast hair loss due to TE's even if you have AGA. Women with AGA tend to be prone to bad shed cycles as well. Before we jump to any conclusions about your potential for AGA, we have to rule everything else out, and that has not been done. Your ferritin level could certainly be a factor, as well as your episode with mono. (Please find the post I left about iron on the birth control pill forum. I think it will be helpful. You need to be really careful taking the iron!) Yes, your ferritin level did seem a bit low...low enough to possibly affect your hair. If getting your levels up does not help your hair within a few months, then we can rule that out as the cause.

The Spiro should not have any long-term negative effects on you if you stop taking it. Stopping would probably only affect your hair negatively if you actually are experiencing androgen problems. And it should have no affect on your hormone levels after you're off of it....everything should return as it was before. I know it is hard, but try not to worry quite so much. You have so much to look forward to...wow, going off to study abroad in Italy. How wonderful! I hope you will be able to keep in touch with us while you are there and let us know how you are doing. Maybe you can even find a better doctor over there. I really wish you the best of everything!...Beta

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