| Posted at 4:43 PM on Oct 28, 2007 by worriedmom1, #24646 |
I'm experiencing the same thing, too. I started noticing hair loss a month after the first injection. I thought it was nothing. Then, 2 months after the first injection, I received the second one. And since then, my hair has been falling out like crazy (even in clumps). It's been 3 months now, since my first injection... and I've already lost 50% of my hair. I'm worried and my doctors are not giving me definite answers. Do you know if it truly is from the Gardasil vaccination??? Did you see the doctor(s), if so, what did they say??? I'm really scared... that I will lose all my hair.
I received my first shot of Gardasil in January 2007. It could have started sooner, but about a month later my hairdresser noticed a bald spot in the back of my head. I rushed back to my ObGyn and asked her if the Gardasil could be the cause as nothing else had recenlty changed. SHe said that she had not heard of this, but she referred me to a dermatologist. I asked him if my hair loss had anything to do with the Gardasil. He replied that I had Alopecia areata and one thing had nothing to do with the other. He advised that I continue with the Gardasil and that he would start treating me for the alopecia. I wish that I would not have listened. I don't know what would have happened if I had stopped then, but I didn't I proceeded with the treatment to the end now over half of my head is bald!!!
I don't know what to do. I keep going back to the dermatologist for treatments for the alopecia, but it just keeps getting worse.
If anyone has had a similar experience and would like to share or has found some other treatments that work, please post a reply.
Melissa
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