Hello!
Just a quick summary of myself. I’m 20 years old, 6′ 1" 170 pounds. I’m very fit for my age and height, and I exercise daily and always eat a healthy diet. My family has never had a history of MPB, and none of my siblings or cousins my age show any signs of balding.
I was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease in January 2008. I was sick before that for about 6 months, before realizing that I was literally withering away, and it wasn’t going to get better on it’s own. After I was diagnosed, I was given a 60mg a day dose of Prednisone and a 2400mg a day dose of Asacol. The Asacol stayed the same for the next 9 months, and the Prednisone tapered off gradually to 5mg a day by 9 months. In December 2008, I completely stopped taking both my Prednisone and Asacol, and was relieved to hear that my Crohn’s was in remission. During the 9 month period, I suffered the usual symptoms of Prednisone (Moon face, weight gain, fatigue, joint pain, etc.) I was also losing hair a little at a time.
About a month after stopping the regiment, around January 2009, I started losing my hair in the front. For the first few months, it was coming out rather quickly and in large amounts. It was also thinning very badly. It started getting progressively better over the next 6 months, but it didn’t stop completely. By December 2009, I have lost a decent amount of hair on the front of my scalp, and it’s a little discouraging for my self image. Whenever I lose hair, it’s usually shorter follicles, an inch in length, compared to my 2-3 inch hair everywhere else. Also, the follicles have a white head on the end sometimes, which I am told is the root. Uh oh? I have read a ton of testimonials online about people with the same exact problem as me, except that they had their hair growing back within 3-5 months of being off of Prednisone. I’ve been off for over a year, and am starting to barely notice positive results, if there are even any positive results. I’m usually too optimistic about things!
After deciding that I wanted my hair back, and I need to combat this every way possible, I started to do the following;
-Taking biotin supplement pills
-Eating extremely healthy and drinking plenty of water
-Washing my hair once a week with some natural shampoo I found at a health store
-Messaging oils in to my scalp once a week, and messaging my scalp a few times a day
I guess my question is;
Will my hair ever grow back, to be the same thick, healthy hair it was before the Prednisone? Or is there something that I’m missing?
