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I've been losing my hair after a round of accutane since feburary of this year. the loss has been massive and i would say that as of now i've lost 50% of my original hair. Towards the end of the course a mass and i mean mass shed ensued where i was losing upwards of 150-200 hairs per day, it has slowed down in the past couple months but i just attribute it to the fact that i have less hair to lose now. The whole structure of my hair changed from thick full and straight to thin weak curly and wirery my hair is pretty much unmanagable now. most of the loss seems to have occured in a diffuse pattern throughout my whole head although it is worse on top of the scalp. i also have the typical bitemporal loss which is a characteristic of Telogen Effluvium. when i went to see my derm he did a hair pull test and said that i did test positive for Telogen Effluvium and that the only thing i could do is wait it out and hope the hair loss stops and the hair comes back. While male pattern baldness is supposed to be gradual i know that my situation isnt just clear cut male pattern baldness because it usually occurs at a much slower rate and no one in my family has a history of hair loss at such an early age. however, it has been 4 and a half months since i stopped the stuff and my hair continues to fall out so I dunno anymore. My parents deny my hair loss and say that it's in my head and it will come back etc etc and refuse to take me to a specialist. here are the pics of my situation.
Here are two pics of my hair before any hair loss the one on the right was taken when i was 18 while the one on the left was taken last july when i was 20 only a month before my accutane course. notice the thick healthy straight hair. I was 20 years old before my hair loss from accutane and wasn't losing any hair or headed towards male pattern baldness anytime soon if i ever was to ebgin with. RIP hair
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... tled33.jpg
here are the pictures of my hair after accutane. i lsot hair throughout my course but the mass loss that has ensued and the change in texture has mostly occured over the past few months or so. pretty scary stuff
here is the top part of my head
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1185.jpg
here is my bang area which has been completely destroyed although i still somewhat have the front hair line there.
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1189.jpg
more diffuse devastation
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1192.jpg
temporal and front hair line area
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1191.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1190.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1198.jpg
Diffuse loss at the side and actual back of my hair
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1200.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1202.jpg
Diffuse loss on the back crown of my head
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1197.jpg
how im wearing my hair now and the unhealthy state of it. things keep up like they are in the next couple weeks or so im hitting the buzzer cause i look like a chemo patient combined with a hobo.
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1203.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1199.jpg
Here are two pics of my hair before any hair loss the one on the right was taken when i was 18 while the one on the left was taken last july when i was 20 only a month before my accutane course. notice the thick healthy straight hair. I was 20 years old before my hair loss from accutane and wasn't losing any hair or headed towards male pattern baldness anytime soon if i ever was to ebgin with. RIP hair
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... tled33.jpg
here are the pictures of my hair after accutane. i lsot hair throughout my course but the mass loss that has ensued and the change in texture has mostly occured over the past few months or so. pretty scary stuff
here is the top part of my head
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1185.jpg
here is my bang area which has been completely destroyed although i still somewhat have the front hair line there.
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1189.jpg
more diffuse devastation
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1192.jpg
temporal and front hair line area
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1191.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1190.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1198.jpg
Diffuse loss at the side and actual back of my hair
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1200.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1202.jpg
Diffuse loss on the back crown of my head
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1197.jpg
how im wearing my hair now and the unhealthy state of it. things keep up like they are in the next couple weeks or so im hitting the buzzer cause i look like a chemo patient combined with a hobo.
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1203.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/ ... G_1199.jpg