Hello everybody
A little background: My name is Daniel, I'm 25 years old, been battling with hair loss for almost 10 years now, my crown is thinning very, very slowly. only the past year my hair loss has become noticeable.
Now, the pattern of my hair loss looks nothing like typical male pattern baldness, and that fact has been a sort of cruel, very frustrating, riddle that I've been trying to solve over the last ten years or so.
I've tried propecia on two different times in my life and in both times I immediately fell the side effects (one time happened on a LIVE occasion! :shakehead
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I am currently using Minoxidil 5, it helped a lot in the first years but then it just stopped helping and I'm afraid of losing tons of hair in a short time if I stop using it, even though it's not doing anything anymore!
Now, I ran into a blog post of a woman who found out she was sensitive to gluten (not THAT again!) and that after switching to a no-gluten diet, her hair loss stopped.
It wasn't an advertisement post or anything of the sort, but it made me think: My sister is sensitive to gluten, thankfully, she doesn't suffer from hair loss, but I do! so out of sole desperation, I tried a no-gluten diet, been doing it for a little over two months now.
I don't feel more healthy or energetic or whatever, I'm not doing it out of health concerns or because it's trendy, but! I tried shaking my hair over a large, blank, white piece of paper, and guess what? NO HAIRS!
Obviously, as a veteran hair-losser, I'm very skeptical, I don't want to go through the euphoric, false, feeling of beating hair loss... again! so I'm going to continue this no-gluten experiment for at least 6 more months and see where my hair loss condition is standing.
Anyone ever heard anything about hair loss and gluten sensitivity?
I did some research and found that there is a kind of gluten-sensitivity-related hair loss that gets "chunks" of hair from your scalp, covering (or uncovering) your scalp with bald patches: my hair loss is nothing like that, and that's why I'm so scared of getting my hopes up for no reason... again!
Thoughts?
A little background: My name is Daniel, I'm 25 years old, been battling with hair loss for almost 10 years now, my crown is thinning very, very slowly. only the past year my hair loss has become noticeable.
Now, the pattern of my hair loss looks nothing like typical male pattern baldness, and that fact has been a sort of cruel, very frustrating, riddle that I've been trying to solve over the last ten years or so.
I've tried propecia on two different times in my life and in both times I immediately fell the side effects (one time happened on a LIVE occasion! :shakehead
.I am currently using Minoxidil 5, it helped a lot in the first years but then it just stopped helping and I'm afraid of losing tons of hair in a short time if I stop using it, even though it's not doing anything anymore!
Now, I ran into a blog post of a woman who found out she was sensitive to gluten (not THAT again!) and that after switching to a no-gluten diet, her hair loss stopped.
It wasn't an advertisement post or anything of the sort, but it made me think: My sister is sensitive to gluten, thankfully, she doesn't suffer from hair loss, but I do! so out of sole desperation, I tried a no-gluten diet, been doing it for a little over two months now.
I don't feel more healthy or energetic or whatever, I'm not doing it out of health concerns or because it's trendy, but! I tried shaking my hair over a large, blank, white piece of paper, and guess what? NO HAIRS!
Obviously, as a veteran hair-losser, I'm very skeptical, I don't want to go through the euphoric, false, feeling of beating hair loss... again! so I'm going to continue this no-gluten experiment for at least 6 more months and see where my hair loss condition is standing.
Anyone ever heard anything about hair loss and gluten sensitivity?
I did some research and found that there is a kind of gluten-sensitivity-related hair loss that gets "chunks" of hair from your scalp, covering (or uncovering) your scalp with bald patches: my hair loss is nothing like that, and that's why I'm so scared of getting my hopes up for no reason... again!
Thoughts?
