Joan - Re: hair loss 3 months after RAI? Ideas please

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Joan -

Stress is always a possible cause for hair loss, but also, odd as it may seem, 3

months after RAI is not so unusual for some hair problems to show up. You

WON'T go bald. Really.

Fluctuating hormones play a big part in hair loss, which includes not only being

hypo,

but also returning to normal.

from Synthroid prescribing info:

" Partial hair loss may occur during the initial months of therapy, but is

generally transient. The incidence of continued hair loss is unknown. "

from Unithroid prescribing info:

" Adverse reactions associated with levothyroxine therapy are primarily

those of hyperthyroidism due to therapeutic overdosage. They include .......:

hair loss;

[... and....]

.... Partial hair loss may occur rarely during the first few months of

UNITHROID therapy, but this is usually temporary. "

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Thyca/message/19601

Good luck, and please keep us posted -

BTW - in re: the new endo, you've probably already done this, but you might want

to ask his/her office to call you if they have a cancellation sooner than your

appointment.

" jdaxthelm " wrote:

> I have read about Hypo hairloss but has anyone any info on hairloss 3

> months after RAI? My hair has always been the bane of my existence -

> very fine, very THIN - I have to use pony tail holders for children

> as they are the only ones that fit (wrapped 2 or 3 times around the

> paltry gathering of hair). Now (starting last week) it is really

> falling out - a few weeks of this and I fear I will be bald. Is it

> possibly hypo related? synthroid related? or can it only be

> something else - like stress?

>

> 08/12 - TT

> 09/24 - RAI

> 10/03/02 ? started .150 Synthroid;

>

> I am trying out a new endo who I get to see at the endo of this

> month - it took 3 months for the appt - so i have little hope of

> getting in to see an endo in the near future (do not want to see my

> old one until after I see the new one...)- any ideas?

>

> Thanks in advance for your responses

> Joan

> Weston, FL