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here's the story i completed a course of accutane back in february of this year. i was on it from august till feb 07 at 40mg a lower dose. anyway, i lost some hair throughout the treatment but it wasn't anymore than a few more hairs in the shower, something that my derm said was consistent with the treatment. anyway, towards the end of the treatment around the last month i noticed a ton and ton of hairs just coming out in the shower and throughout the day. since i ended in february i would say that i've lost close to 50-60% of my hair, i think i even started to shed body hair on my legs as well. anyway, my hair loss was not just on the top of my head in the male pattern baldness areas, but everywhere throughout my scalp and is occuring in a diffuse pattern. When i lift up the top of my head and the sides i look like some kind of chemo patient granted it isn't that noticeable unless i lift it up. Another thing is that the texture of my hair has also changed. I used to have thick straight hair and over the past few months it has become these thin weak curly strands. I mean i have these weird hairs sticking up all over the place on the vertex of my head and even my hair all over has become curlier.
anyway, i went a derm up here at school and he looked at my hair and agreed that accutane had at least something to do with it and gave me all kinds of blood tests and even a couple testosterone tests. He said from the blood and testosterone tests that everything came back normal, and my testosterone levels don't seem to indicate male pattern baldness so he thinks that it is Telogen Effluvium and over the course of the next few months or so my hair should recover and come back. The thing is i am just worried and hope that i am being diagnosed right and all. Can you know if someone has male pattern baldness based on their testosterone tests alone? he gave me two or three testosterone tests, but i'm not sure of the details exactly. also is it normal for people to fully recover from Telogen Effluvium? i'm just sort of at a loss right now and scared cause i still have my hair line and all but hair is just diffusing throughout.
anyway, i went a derm up here at school and he looked at my hair and agreed that accutane had at least something to do with it and gave me all kinds of blood tests and even a couple testosterone tests. He said from the blood and testosterone tests that everything came back normal, and my testosterone levels don't seem to indicate male pattern baldness so he thinks that it is Telogen Effluvium and over the course of the next few months or so my hair should recover and come back. The thing is i am just worried and hope that i am being diagnosed right and all. Can you know if someone has male pattern baldness based on their testosterone tests alone? he gave me two or three testosterone tests, but i'm not sure of the details exactly. also is it normal for people to fully recover from Telogen Effluvium? i'm just sort of at a loss right now and scared cause i still have my hair line and all but hair is just diffusing throughout.