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hi ladies, my iron is low and i'm taking iron pills for one month, with no improvement, i still shed 100-300 hairs daily. can iron deficiency be the cause of hair loss? i'm a bit confused, doctors are telling me low iron can't cause hairloss, while most hair loss websites say that yes iron can...

Hi ladies, i was reading a women's health mag and there was an article about mercury poisoning from teeth fillings. The article said women are more prone to mercury poisioning from their fillings, and this can cause fatigue, depression, headaches and hair loss. Mercury poisoning can affect...

i also heard that u naturally lose more hair during the fall and spring, even ppl who don't suffer from hairloss tend to lose more hair during these times...i noticed alot more shedding in sept than during the summer. hopefully its jus a result of a sesonal shed and nothing more.

I'm only 19 and I've been losing hair rapidly for over 1 year now. i had numerous tests done for everything and all my test came back normal. recently my family Doctor decided to test my ferrtin levels and found that i had extremely low iron, well below the normal range. apparently done of my docs...

Is anyone aware of a link between high cholesterol and hairloss? i just found out my cholesterol is 'distressingly' high for a nineteen yr old. this doesn't make much sense to me cause i'm super skinny, i hate red meat, and i eat pretty healthy. my Doctor stays that i don't have to go on meds just...

thanks for da advise :) how do vitamin C and E, evening oil etc. help with hair? which dosages do u recommend of each?

I never knew hair loss could be caused or tiggered by a vitamin deficiency, but i found a site that says otherwise: http://1stholistic.com/Nutrition/hol_nutr-def-symptoms.htm supposedly if u are deficient in certain nutrients (ie.biotin, essential fatty acids, B vitamins, etc) it can cause...

hi browneyes, i know exactly what ur going through, i'm 19 and i've also lost about 60% of my hair in one year. i also don't know what the cause is, all my tests came back normal. i'm hoping its just Telogen Effluvium and will stop. i'm taking a pill called spironolactone for about a month with no...

i think my family Doctor is an idiot b/c he didn't warned me about any of the side effects of taking spironolactone. i'm taking 50mg/day. when i first took it i felt fine...but after a while i started to feel really dizzy. i didn't understand why, until i did research on spironolactone on the net and found...

i'm so depressed i feel like shaving my head and just wearing a wig...i've seen human hair wigs and they don't look so bad. also for some reason i have the idea that if i shave my head my hair will grow back thicker again and stop falling. anyways if i shave my head at least i won't see anymore...

Omg...i'm experiencing the exact same thing. last week when i showered i think i must have loss at least a thousand hairs, i'm not exaggerating! but most of the hairs where really small, an inch or even smaller and they were very very thin and light compared to the rest of my hair! now i notice...

THANK YOU ALL Thank you to everyone for giving me great advice and support! :love: I'm getting off the saw palmetto b/c i never heard any success stories from anyone taking it (men and women). I also stopped taking iron pills. what I don't understand is why my family Doctor didn't say...

I don't think I have AA (Alopecia Areata). the bald spots i mentioned in my post, are only at my temples (above the ear) which i can cover up right now. also the part in my hair is really really noticably white to me, its double the thickness it use to be, but everyone tells me its not...

i've done A LOT of research, talked to docs, and talked to alot of women with hairloss problems, and most have said that there hair started falling in their late teens or even in their twenties, but the hair grew back even after it had really thinned out, althought it wasn't the hair they had at...

I'm not sure if i have Androgenetic Alopecia or Telogen Effluvium, b/c i have symptons of both. I'm under a lot of stress but on da other hand I both my parents had thinning/hair loss so it could be AA and genetic. I have loss soooo much hair dat i'm afarid of going bald. I'm only 19 yrs old and...