17 year old daughter lost half her hair

[Anonymous]

My teen lost maybe 1/3rd of her thick hair after going off Accutane and the required concurrent birth control pills. Lost it for 3 months in handfuls (the time of a "hair cycle"). All bloodwork was normal. It has been 9 months since she stopped the meds and has tons of new hair about 4-6 inches long. She had been really upset about it for a long time but is finally now starting to turn to more optimism in regards to her hair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dermatologist just focused on growing my hair back. She tried several different things and the steroid shots worked.

All my doctors were pretty dismissive of the idea that we would identify a "root cause." I spent so much energy trying to figure out what was causing it but in the end there was no clear answer and my hair grew back. From what I have read online that's a typical story. Sometimes people lose hair after a virus, a traumatic event, or major weight loss, but often it's for no discernable reason.

How long did it take?

[Anonymous]

For my sister the cause ended up being Lupus, but it took awhile to get it fully looked into.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dermatologist just focused on growing my hair back. She tried several different things and the steroid shots worked.

All my doctors were pretty dismissive of the idea that we would identify a "root cause." I spent so much energy trying to figure out what was causing it but in the end there was no clear answer and my hair grew back. From what I have read online that's a typical story. Sometimes people lose hair after a virus, a traumatic event, or major weight loss, but often it's for no discernable reason.

How long did it take?

It started growing quickly in response to the steroid shots but obviously takes a while to reach the length of the other hair. Also, some grew in white initially and later wet back to being brown (my normal color), so the white hair, though better than nothing, was not ideal, I have actually lost some hair since then but only in spots (fortunately not visible ones) end it always starts regrowing on its own, it’s almost like a seasonal thing of shedding and regrowing.

[Anonymous]

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