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Mild ankle swelling seems to be caused by oral minoxidil
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My hair is shedding because I stopped minoxidil abruptly due to elevated
liver enzymes. Also stopped other supplements and changed my diet so
difficult to tell what helped but my ALT and AST returned to normal. That
said, now I have mild ankle edema. Just reading online that eating high
potassium foods might help, and I'll try that 🙂 as well as low sodium
food and no added salt (thank you for these suggestions) when available to
jump the process to reduce edema.
I didn't think it helped that much but with the shedding I can see that it
was helpful after all which is why I started up again.
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@tillymack, interesting. My potassium runs slightly high so I avoid bananas. My GP suspects it’s due to my blood pressure med, though I take a small dose. Just started a new one and hopefully that will stop.
My hair doctor, who is a DO, prescribed Dutrastride which I took for about 6 weeks. Inexplicably, I gained about 10 pounds. It’s not associated with weight gain. But idk. We discussed it and I stopped taking it. Will revisit later. It is well known to skew labs, so I suspect it caused me to have a slightly elevated AST. It’s normally fine so that does bother me. Will retest in October. All other labs were great.
Did you get a scalp biopsy? How did you get diagnosis? I can’t get one. Dermatologist nor hair doctor know what has caused this. Biopsy was inconclusive. It started post covid. Also, right after major weight loss and B12 deficiency. It’s frustrating though I think it’s improving.