I've been noticing some changes in my hair over the last year, but in the past couple weeks, I've realized that I'm actually losing my hair altogether. It's not very thick to begin with so very soon it will start to be obvious to others besides myself that something is wrong.
I'm pretty sure I know what the problem is even without the bloodwork, although I have an appt. with a derm. in a couple weeks, and I have a call into my family practitioner who's on vacation until Monday. After battling with infertility for over 5 years, we discovered that I'm going into early menopause (I'm under 40). I'm pretty certain that my problem is hormonal, especially since I noticed not only hair loss on my head, but some fine hair growing on my face as well.
I'm losing the hair on the front of my head and the sides, plus I have broken hair. The hair that's growing back seems to be getting finer and finer and grayer. I call it "old lady hair" only I'm too young to have it.
If I am correct in my assessment, what will be the options for me? How bad is this going to get? It seems to be going so much quicker than my husband's hair loss. There's been a huge change in just the past few weeks. I'm scared and I would love for someone to tell me that there is hope for me.
Will birth control pills help at all? I haven't actually reached menopause yet. I'd get on hormone replacement therapy, but now you can't even do that without a risk of killing yourself from the side effects. What about the natural supplement (Estroven)?
What do other women do in this case?
I'm pretty sure I know what the problem is even without the bloodwork, although I have an appt. with a derm. in a couple weeks, and I have a call into my family practitioner who's on vacation until Monday. After battling with infertility for over 5 years, we discovered that I'm going into early menopause (I'm under 40). I'm pretty certain that my problem is hormonal, especially since I noticed not only hair loss on my head, but some fine hair growing on my face as well.
I'm losing the hair on the front of my head and the sides, plus I have broken hair. The hair that's growing back seems to be getting finer and finer and grayer. I call it "old lady hair" only I'm too young to have it.
If I am correct in my assessment, what will be the options for me? How bad is this going to get? It seems to be going so much quicker than my husband's hair loss. There's been a huge change in just the past few weeks. I'm scared and I would love for someone to tell me that there is hope for me.
Will birth control pills help at all? I haven't actually reached menopause yet. I'd get on hormone replacement therapy, but now you can't even do that without a risk of killing yourself from the side effects. What about the natural supplement (Estroven)?
What do other women do in this case?