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Anyone experienced hair loss while taking or tapering Prednisone?
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I was on prednisone for 6 months with 30mg as the high dose. I tapered off in October w help of Kevzara. I started to notice hair loss in December. For how long did you hair continue to fall out?
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@lsa22 I would say you can be reassured, anecdotally at least from this forum and other sites , prednisone hair loss reverses once pred is out of the system and hormones can return to normal.
My experience is
6 weeks of heavy hair shedding at the end of a 3month course of pred , til hair loss stopped suddenly and I could feel bristles of new hair growth through the 50% off my hair that hadn’t fallen out .
That was 12ths ago
New growth was and remains curly ( whereas my hair was previously straight )
Just one morePMR / prednisone waiting game !