Can you lose your hair when on Enbrel?
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I don't see it listed as a side effect in the MPR (a common medical reference).
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I'm afraid that is inevitable especially if it is in your genes.  Of course you can always try delaying the inevitable by avoiding situations which cause hair loss such as too much stress and by using topical treatments such as rogaine or even dabbing aloe vera on your scalp regularly.
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YES!  RAPID WEIGHT LOSS CAN BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HAIR LOSS,DUE TO DEFICIENCY IN ZINC,PROTEIN,BLOTIN. YOU SHOULD TAKE MULTI- VITAMINS AS SAID ABOVE. BUT ALSO PHYSICAL OR EMOTIONAL STRESS CAN MAKE YOU LOSS ABOVE THE NORMAL 150 TO 300 STRAND OF HAIR WE HUMANS LOSS NORMALY A DAY. GOOD LUCK
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You are injecting artificial  hormones into your body and any sort of hormonal inbalancing or consequences can happen.  Hormone "imbalances" can cause sore, swolen, or leaking breaks (like it would if you were pregnant).  This may be just the beginning for you, so please watch carefully for other side affects.  \n\nDepo Provera is akin to forcing your body into an early menopause state.  If you ever heard what women say about their personalities while "going through the change".  Depo can produce the same thing!\n\nI've been off the Depo Provera since 2000 and my hair and my eyebrows still haven't grown all the way back. I lost about a 1/4 inch along most of my front hair line. The rest of my hair came back and is thick and strong, but the hairline is not the same compared to what it was. In addition to the severe hair loss, I gained over 40 pounds, 20 while taking Depo and 20 after coming off. I never had a migraine before Depo and during use and for the first year after being off it, I had severe migraines at least once a week. My skin itched like I wanted to rip it off and I was hot all the time. I would get extreme vertigo with no warning. Just try staggering at work or while in the pharmacy and not look like you had a drinking problem! My bones also ached a lot. Depo has been proven to cause osteoporosis. Over a year after coming off the Depo Provera, I developed two serious blood clots one after the other. The cause was never completely determined because I had not been on birth control of any kind for over a year and my blood tests were normal. I finally had a rib removed and the clots stopped, but I will contend to this day the Depo had at least a little something to do with it. About the same time as the blood clots, I started having severe cramping and a year into it, my doctor found pretty severe endometriosis. With the resulting depression and the lack of sex from Depo you may not have to worry about getting pregnant because you won't want to have sex anyway. I know some people do just fine with this birth control, but it's not worth the chance. It takes upwards of 6 to 8 months for the effects to wear off and sometimes longer. My hair has never grown completely back along the hairline and I am having a hair transplant at a tune of $5,000.00 to fix it.  I had to have my eyebrows tattooed because they will not fill back in!   I am only 35! I can't wait until Depo is researched more deeply and to someday find out what else this drug did to screw up my system. \n\nI got the (copper) IUD (since I can't use hormones anymore due to future clotting risks). My insurance paid for it. You still get your period, but it's worth it.\n\nOur bodies are made to have periods unless we are pregnant. If you force your body into an unnatural state, it WILL fight back!\n\nPlease be careful and watch for other side affects.   I would hate to see you have dire consequences for trying to make your body do something it should not.  Remember, people do die from the changes that hormones cause their bodies.
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vitamin E is supposed to be good for your hair, but it probably doesnt keep it from falling out. You should talk to your doctor
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Masturbation would not cause hair loss.  If you are experiencing this please see your doctor for an exam and testing to determine what is causing this.
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believe it or not but 10% or your hair is always falling out... its just the cycle in which hair grows and makes room for new hair.  if you are on birth control or are pregnant then it is more likely for you to lose hair do to the hormones.... if your not, dont fret.  it is normal and it happens daily, as long as youre not pulling it out or flalling out in clumps...
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My brother is 21 and has been on Enbrel for over 7 years.  He has had juvenile psoriatic rheumatoid arthritis since he was 4.  He was crippled from it to the point he could only walk a few steps.  He now runs, snow boards, golfs, lifts weights and is running circles around his classmates.  They had him on some other drugs that stunted his growth and since switching to Enbrel has shot up from 5'2 to almost 6 feet.  Enbrel was a gift from GOD.  Its expensive but a good insurance will take care of it.  Otherwise it is like $1000 a month(last I heard)
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not really.  Some people don't lose their hair, but I believe most do.  My mother went to get a wig before she lost her hair and the matched it up really well.  People always tell you that your hair will grow back better than ever, but we just thought they were trying to be nice.  Well, when Mum's hair grew back it was nothing short of stunning and had waves in there that she had lost 35 years earlier when she was pregnant (and then breastfeeding) my eldest sister.  You hang in there.  chemo is a rotten thing to go through, but it is fighting those evil cancer cells.  I'm going to add you to my prayer list just so that you know that somewhere out here a total stranger is thinking of you and wishing you well.
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Topical application of Rogaine on the scalp helps a lot of men, worth a try. \nAs a prescription you can try Propecia - does not work for all men, but for a fair percentage. \nHowever, once you lost hair it is preety much gone and won't come back, so you might want to start as early as possible to preserve what you have.
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*Noddling solemnly* While many disagree I have to say yes, chemicals (even in conditioners and shampoos) can damage hair. One should only wash their hair often enough to keep it clean. Daily doses can over do it, especially if you use the rinse and repeat method.\n\nNow I cannot say if this is the cause of your problem, but beware products that contain alcohol or lauryl sulphate as they dry out hair and make it brittle.\n\nMost people routinely lose between 70 and 150 hairs from their scalp each day, mainly through washing, brushing, and combing.\n\nScalp hair starts to thin when more hairs are lost through normal shedding than the scalp is able to renew. About 40% of the density of scalp hair has to be lost before thinning of the hair becomes noticeable.\n\nHair loss can be caused by:\n\n    * Heredity. Most balding is caused by a genetic predisposition - in other words, it's part of a person's genetic makeup. This is called male pattern baldness, or hereditary balding or thinning. It is the most common cause of thinning hair.\n\n    * Illness, certain physical conditions, or their treatments. This can include high fever, thyroid disease, childbirth, inadequate protein in the diet, iron deficiency, cancer treatments, the use of certain medications, and other causes.\nFor more see http://www.ehealthmd.com/library/hairloss/HL_whatis.html\n\nSome good alternatives are found here http://www.answerbag.com/c_view.php/1654
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Hi Not sure on the effect on the hair bulb but as a Heamatology nurse I find it an interesting question and am going to look into it. Lots of our patient's hair grows back a different texture.  Only certain combinations of chemotherapy drugs cause hair loss and that is why not all people lose it during treatment.\nI am not so sure about the previous posters comment that the changes only last 6 months, I have seen it changed permanently on several occasions. \nAnyway hope your mum is making a good recovery.\nGood 'hair & chemo' link below
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Yes. medication can sometimes cause changes in your hair. It depends what the medication is.  There is such a thing as weighing down your hair with heavey preparations bought over the counter. If you have tried as many different products, as you say you have, this could be a reason for your unhappiness with your locks. Curly hair doesnt like to be weighed down.I am at a disadvantage  because  I can't see what we are dealing with. I'm sure that a consult with a reputable cosmetologist in your area would be a good place to start. They could recomend a program of hair care that you can live with. Finally, age does enter into the picture. As we get older we tend to lose the natural oils that kept our hair and skin supple and smooth. I hope this helps some. The suggestions here may cost  a little money,but, you're spending a lot on the products that haven't worked. Good luck
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According to WebMD  it was originally used to treat high blood pressure. Here is what they had to say: "Minoxidil was originally used to treat high blood pressure. It is now also used to treat inherited hair loss (androgenetic alopecia), the most common cause of hair loss, as well as for other causes of hair loss." \nIf you ever have any doubts on OTC meds ask the pharmacists they usually know about side effects and medication interactions and problems like that.\n\nhttp://www.webmd.com/hw/hair_loss/aa153435.asp
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Male pattern baldness, also known by its uglier and scarier clinical name androgenetic alopecia , is caused by some really funky chemistry on your scalp. It starts with testosterone, the male sex hormone. Harmless on its own, testosterone gets converted to the dicey dihydrotestosterone (DHT) when in contact with oil glands in the hair follicles. These glands hold the enzyme Type II 5-alpha reductase.  DHT, in turn, gets in your scalp follicles and shrinks them. At the same time, it makes the protective membrane of the scalp thicken, restricting blood flow to the capillaries. This makes further hair growth impossible. The hairs fall out at a natural rate, but aren't replaced. And that's it in a nutshell. \n\nPRODUCTS:\nFinasteride (Propecia)\nFinasteride, produced by Merck and Company under the name Propecia, was approved by the FDA in December 1997, as a treatment for male pattern baldness. It is the first drug available in pill form for the treatment of baldness.\nIn men with mild to moderate hair loss, clinical trials showed that 83 percent of the male patients had kept their hair or grown more after one year of treatment. Propecia (finasteride) works by blocking an enzyme called 5-alpha reductase, which is responsible for the formation of dihydro-testosterone in a man's body. The enzyme converts testosterone to DHT (dihydrotestosterone). It is believed that DHT is a key factor in male pattern hair loss, and finasteride decreases the concentration of DHT in a man's scalp by about two-thirds.\n\nminoxidil (Rogaine):\nMinoxidil, a drug produced by Upjohn under the name of Rogaine, has been available since 1988 for the treatment of hair loss. It is currently available as an over-the-counter drug. \nMinoxidil is topical solution that must be applied by applicator or fingers to the balding area twice a day, every day. Decreasing the dosage to once a day results in some hair loss, and discontinuing application causes regression to pretreatment baldness within 3 to 6 weeks. It can take 4 to 12 months to see results.\nAccording to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), clinical studies show that 26 percent of men between 18 and 49 reported moderate to dense hair regrowth after four months of Rogaine treatment. An additional 33 percent had minimal hair regrowth. Almost 20 percent of women between 18 and 45 had moderate regrowth, while an additional 40 percent showed minimal regrowth.\n\n\nSurgical hair replacement:\nWhen experiencing thinning hair or baldness, men (and some women) consider hair transplantation, a permanent form of hair replacement. Anyone who has permanent hair loss may be a candidate for hair transplantation, including:\nmen with male pattern baldness \nsome women with thinning hair \npersons who have lost hair as a result of burns or other scarring injuries to the scalp, eyebrows, or eyelashes.\n\nTypes of hair replacement surgery:\nThere are a number of techniques used in hair replacement surgery. Sometimes two or more techniques are used to achieve the best results.\npunch grafts - usually contain about 10-15 hairs \nmini-grafts - contain about 2 to 4 hairs \nmicro-grafts - contain 1 to 2 hairs \nslit grafts - contain about 4 to10 hairs each \nstrip grafts - contain 30-40 hairs\n\n\nGood luck!
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Women can get bald.  That is why they have Rogaine for women.
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I know this does not totally relate to your question. I have been seeing an Endo for hairloss...Beware: The blood tests etc they send you for add up and cost a bundle. I had blood drawn 3 times and it has totaled 3 grand! Just a lil FYI. Good luck hon, I hope they find out what's wrong.