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Symptoms after you stop prednisone
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Jan 23 9:34am | Replies (95)Comment receiving replies
@csimmonds My hair has been thinning as well and it is disturbing. I've never had so much hair fall out like this. I think I am starting to reverse it, I bought an infrared comb-style device from Sharper Image called Hairmax and you run it over your scalp for 8-12 minutes every other day. It takes 4 months to show results and I am at 3 months now and can see new hair starting to come back. It is a slow process. I was going to also take Nutrafol pills for hair loss till I saw how high the Vitamin A and Selenium levels are plus the Biotin levels and biotin can negatively affect any blood tests you may need so I decided to skip that. Fingers crossed!
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Any idea which blood tests are affected by the biotin?
I’ve been taking it for my hair loss/breakage even before PMR. Wish I knew about it.
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@elizabethannr Thank you for sharing your experience. I started prednisone last March and have tapered. I guess I expected I would have hair loss at higher dosage but it sounds like it has more to do with how long one is on it. I started taking Biotin recently. I had dramatic hair thinning one other time following going into septic shock. It grew back really curly--I looked like a Chia pet--then it gradually went to normal. Thank you for the information about the infrared comb--I may put that on my Christmas list.