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Anyone experience hair loss due to their meds?
Which ones?
What did your doc say to do to combat this?
Which ones?
What did your doc say to do to combat this?
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Re: hair loss
Mon, August 7, 2006 - 1:46 PMDepakote did it to me and I just changed to Lamictal.
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Re: hair loss
Tue, August 8, 2006 - 1:04 PMActually Lamictal has done it to me. My doctor said to use Selson Blue and take folic acid. It's done wonders for my fingernails, but my hair keeps coming out by the roots. Depakote isn't an option for me, it makes me *really* stupid. -
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Re: hair loss
Wed, August 9, 2006 - 7:25 PMHere's what i've heard to do:
take selenium (50-100mcg/day - MICROgrams)
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zinc (50-100mg/day - milligrams)
home.comcast.net/~pmbrig/BP_pharm.html
if my friend takes them, i'll let you know what her results are.
I JUST heard about using selenium containing (dandruff) shampoos, too. -
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Re: hair loss
Thu, August 10, 2006 - 10:38 AMI forgot to mention that I'm also taking zinc and selenium, but no joy.
If my hair gets any thinner, I'm just going to dye it hot pink. Then no one will look past the pink to see the thinning, right?
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Re: hair loss
Sun, August 20, 2006 - 9:10 PMAn article affirming that Lamictal appears indeed to cause hair loss is in the current American Journal of Psychiatry, for anyone who is having difficulty getting their doctor to accept the idea. One person on another website indicated that she was having good results from using the same vitamin regimen that has been recommended for Depakote, as one of the tribe here noted: selenium and zinc, which are conveniently, if expensively, combined in Centrum Silver, an over-the-counter vitamin.
Jim Phelps, M.D.
www.PsychEducation.org
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Re: hair loss
Thu, August 10, 2006 - 2:21 PMvalproic acid did this. he just took me off it
