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Hair Loss Remedies for Thinning Hair on aromatase inhibitors?

Posted by nd14 @nd14, Jun 6, 2023

Hi! I’m about to start endocrine therapy (AI plus Lupron) and am wondering if anyone has used any topical creams that helped with hair thinning, something I am afraid of (along w all the other side effects)!

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boymomil | @boymomil | Oct 31 9:51pm
In reply to @gramma206 "I am taking letrozole and definitely noticed thinning, not as bad as hairloss from chemotherapy, but..." + (show)
@gramma206

I am taking letrozole and definitely noticed thinning, not as bad as hairloss from chemotherapy, but emotionally devastating to lose so much hair after it had grown back. My oncologist recommended Viviscal and warned me it world be at least three months before I'd notice a difference. She was right on both counts! By the third month I "thought" it was better. By the fourth month I "knew" it was. I continue to take one pill with breakfast and one with dinner and my hair is back to the quantity I had before cancer treatments.

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Hi. May I ask if you are taking Viviscal or Viviscal Pro? I am on Exemestrane for four years now and my hair is getting so thin. I have an appointment with a dermatologist but it's not for four more months. I appreciate your help. Thank you.

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gramma206 | @gramma206 | Nov 1 1:19am
In reply to @boymomil "Hi. May I ask if you are taking Viviscal or Viviscal Pro? I am on Exemestrane..." + (show)
@boymomil

Hi. May I ask if you are taking Viviscal or Viviscal Pro? I am on Exemestrane for four years now and my hair is getting so thin. I have an appointment with a dermatologist but it's not for four more months. I appreciate your help. Thank you.

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Just the regular Viviscal, not the Pro.
My hair does have somewhat of what my hairdresser describes as a furry texture. I can put up with that since I no longer see pink scalp whenever I look in the mirror.

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thora902 | @thora902 | Nov 1 11:50am
In reply to @boymomil "Hi. May I ask if you are taking Viviscal or Viviscal Pro? I am on Exemestrane..." + (show)
@boymomil

Hi. May I ask if you are taking Viviscal or Viviscal Pro? I am on Exemestrane for four years now and my hair is getting so thin. I have an appointment with a dermatologist but it's not for four more months. I appreciate your help. Thank you.

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I am also experiencing thinning hair on Exemestane - only on it for 6 months for the hair loss to show up. Every time I wash my hair, it comes out in handfuls in the drain. I am afraid at this rate, I will have no hair at the end of 5 months. What are the ingredients in Viviscal? Is it estrogenic? Others are promoting Nutrafol - it has a herbal formula that may interfere with AIs. Afraid to take a hair supplement. Right now - applying rosemary oil topically.

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splendrous | @splendrous | Nov 2 10:12am

I had chemo and taking Letrozole for 8 years. My hair has gotten much thinner with letrozole. Very difficult to manage. I have tried all kinds of thickening products but did not address my problem.

Read some had success with minoxidil 2.5mg dose a day. It is not an overnight treatment. It takes 6 months to a year to begin to see results. But I am so pleased to find something that works for me. This is the same drug that is in Rogaine foam treatment but much easier to use as a pill. I highly recommend for thinning hair.

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mari | @mari | Nov 2 1:44pm

Letrozal was created by a devil. Four fingers Ruined. And it doesn’t help much.
I’ll take the memos an MRI anytime.
No hair loss from mani.

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gramma206 | @gramma206 | Nov 2 2:58pm
In reply to @thora902 "I am also experiencing thinning hair on Exemestane - only on it for 6 months for..." + (show)
@thora902

I am also experiencing thinning hair on Exemestane - only on it for 6 months for the hair loss to show up. Every time I wash my hair, it comes out in handfuls in the drain. I am afraid at this rate, I will have no hair at the end of 5 months. What are the ingredients in Viviscal? Is it estrogenic? Others are promoting Nutrafol - it has a herbal formula that may interfere with AIs. Afraid to take a hair supplement. Right now - applying rosemary oil topically.

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Viviscal was recommended to me by my medical oncologist. I 100% trust her to know what's safe to take with an AI

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cherziggy | @cherziggy | Nov 3 11:50am
In reply to @mari "Letrozal was created by a devil. Four fingers Ruined. And it doesn’t help much. I’ll take..." + (show)
@mari

Letrozal was created by a devil. Four fingers Ruined. And it doesn’t help much.
I’ll take the memos an MRI anytime.
No hair loss from mani.

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I agree. I took letrozole for 3 weeks and had to have bilateral carpel tunnel surgery. My hands are stiff now.

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