Hair breakage symptoms and conditions

FINALLY! I am also experiencing hair loss, hair breakage, my blond hair is turning RED, and when it's wet after thoroughly washing it, it absolutely WREAKS of chemicals! My hematologist also swears that it's not because of the Lovenox-my hair stylist agrees with me, that it IS the Lovenox because nothing else has changed in my lifestyle. I think we should do a class action law suit since it's not listed on the Lovenox.com website as a possible side effect!

My mother was prescribed this horrible drug for prevention purposes about a year ago. She has experienced severe hair loss, unexplained cough and sore throat pain, flu-like symptoms with fever, severe headaches. Doctors prescribed sinus medication and hydrocortisone shots in the scalp for hair loss and occasional shoulder pain that was explained by her doctors to be arthritis (at times severe). She was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor and treated with temodar and radiation for brain cancer. Before fosomax, she was a very healthy 63 year woman with no health issues whatsoever. She went for annual physical and was prescribed this medication. In the last few months, her doctors increased dose of Caltrate-D from 600mg a day to 2400mg/day because of cancer treatment. Immediately, she began to experience severe neck and shoulder pain on the left side. In a few weeks, it has spread to both shoulders and upper arms. She is unable to wash lower back, raise arms to comb hair, lift herself up from sitting position, brush her teeth. A few weeks ago, she experienced the sensation of an abscessed tooth. A dentist told her several teeth would need a root canal. She has pain in upper arms that feel like burning fire. She is getting weaker in the arms. Pain is spreading to the hips. I pray this doesn't go any further and will reverse after we stop this dangerous drug. Has anyone shown signs of improvement after stopping this drug? How long did it take to see improvement? What if anything can you do for the pain and sore muscles and joints?

I am going to be 42 in April. I had the Mirena inserted in 2005. Initially I was aware of the side effects. I did not linked all of the side effects together until coming to this site and searching for reasons for having extensive hair loss. I have experienced the back pain, the skin itching, horrible acne that looked like mountains forming on my face, night sweats, headaches, depression and nausea. I used pain medicine like crazy......Out of all of these the hair loss drove my search for answers. I made an appointment to see a dermatologists who proceeded to shoot my head with approximately 30 cortisone shots and subsequently provide me with cortisone cream to trigger hair growth. I could pull on my hair and end up with a hand full of strands. It was unreal! It has been two weeks since I have had the Mirena removed. It was not painful at all and I had very little bleeding. Just spotting. My body is now suffering from Hormone Naive. My stomach is bloated and I am craving food. I feel like I am pregnant. The good is: I am no longer suffering from the headaches, back pain, the acne is gone, hair breakage has slowed down a great deal, and my mind is clear. I can put words together that make sense. I recommend to all women to have the Mirena removed and want to thank you all for this site. I would have never put all the pieces together. It is not worth the damage to our bodies. Because of my age, being divorces and not wanting more children (I have two) I will be getting my tubes tied in the near future.

I'm a 26 year old female and I've been on Topamax since March 2007. It has completely gotten rid of the debilitating headaches I experienced 3-6 times a week. It also got rid of my anxiety. I got my life back, my antidepressant kicked in at the same time. I experienced all the usual side-effects, tingling hands and feet, forgetting words, memory problems, loss of appetite, but was COMPLETELY pain-free. I still am. However, I never remember anything now, forget whether or not I did something, paid my bills, etc, lose things constantly, and I have lost about 20 lbs. Not good. I look anorexic. I have bones sticking out. Eating is hard. I forget to eat and drink all day and food is just unappealing. I feel fuzzy and stupid and slow. Not sharp like I used to be. It has killed my confidence and self-esteem. But I was wondering if any women out there got yeast infections while they were on Topamax. I've had one monthly since I started it, and my doc said it's a rare side effect. Oh yeah, I've had mild hair loss and mild to moderate acne now. This drug, it is such a 50-50. Living with chronic pain, those headaches were awful. But doubting yourself is awful too. Anyone have similar experiences?

Hi so I've only been taking Topamax for five days now and I have a question? I am black and I also have a problem where I woke up this morning and instead of hair loss per se, my bangs on either side were cut straight across about 4 inches missing (this is a lot for a black person, maybe even to anyone trying to grow their hair for their upcoming wedding). It's like someone used scissors to cut off 4 inches, of only the front of my hair (breakage). Has anyone else heard of this? Please help.

Hair breakage, falling out

Severe hair breakage/loss. I've always had fairly thick hair - since starting Actonel 35 mg 1x/week, have noticed lots of hair breakage - The actonel is the only thing different in my life in the past 4 months, so I attribute the breakage to the drug - anyone else have severe breakage? This is in addition to severe left hip joint pain, jaw pain, and upset stomach. I'm not going to take any more Actonel.

I got my IUD placed in about april of 07 i have seen than experience crazy skin problems such as ance i've never had a problem with ance and i'm 25 i have very bad mood changes that are unexplainable now that i have reread the side effects of Mirena i now know why all the side effects began around the same time and now i'm figuring out why! I will be getting it removed. Has anyone else experience really bad mood swings i was so ready to get on depression medications now i'm going to get it removed and will take it from there!!! Please let me know if i'm not the only one

My hair started to look real unhealthy, and then began falling out in large amounts, even if I would just run my fingers through my hair.

I have been on Topamax for 6 years and the side effects that I have experienced have been dry eyes, dry mouth, muscle/joint aches, chest pain, memory problems, body odor, fluid retention, weight GAIN (not loss), head aches, mood swings, hallucinations, blurred vision especially at night, tingling/burning of the extremities, and the constant feeling of never being able to get warm. I was on 400mg twice a day, and since the hallucinations, I have been cut back to 100 mg twice a day. My headaches are worse, and I am now experiencing hair loss and hair breakage.

I am 49 years old and I have been on lisinopril, 10 mg for almost a year and half. This past summer I developed psoriasis of my scalp and then a few months later I had hair breakage on my bangs and I have severe hair loss in the back of my head with bald spots. I had no idea these were side effects. I also have hypertension and nervousness along with the hair loss side effect. To make matters worse, when I was about 6 or 7 years old I had Sclerderma and was treated at the Childrens Hospital in Boston. I am very concerned about all these side effects and it also states this drug treatment may not be suitable for you if you have Sclerderma. I do not have it any more, however, when I did have it when I was young it did leave a small bald spot in the back of my head, however now the bald spot has spread to a much bigger area. Additionally, my hair is very dry and it was always oily. I would like to know if my hair will grow back in the areas where it has left bald spots once I get off the drug. I found all this out today because I just went on line and looked up hair loss and this awful drug popped up.

don't know. Can Baclofen cause hair breakage?