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The supplements I was sold and what I think now

Started 21 December 2025 · 18 replies · 151 hearts · read 2.5k times

MairéadMayo, IE · 21 December 2025
7 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: The supplements I was sold and what I think now

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment.

Before anyone says it: yes, I have an appointment booked. I would still like to hear from people who have had this, because I would rather go in able to describe it properly.

I want to describe this accurately rather than politely, because the polite version is what I said at my last appointment and it got me nowhere.

My pharmacist has been helpful and my question has now outgrown what she can answer at a counter, so I am asking here while I wait for an appointment.

Thank you for reading something this unglamorous. Any experience welcome, and timescales especially.

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OttoPrague, CZ
#1

The thing that helped was a photograph at the start, which I hated taking and which meant I could see the regrowth six months later rather than guessing.

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PerrinNice, FR
#2

Practically: a softer brush, less heat, and leaving it alone. None of it dramatic and collectively it made the daily experience less upsetting.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#3

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described in this thread is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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BlySheffield, UK
#4

Otto said something I want to sit with for a second.

I asked about it at a review half expecting to be dismissed and instead got a proper explanation, a blood test and a plan. Worth asking.

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WystanCheltenham, UK
#5

I would say ask for the bloods rather than assuming. Mine turned out to have a straightforward and fixable component and I would not have known.

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MarthaCork, IE
#6

Picking up Bly’s point rather than starting a new one.

My hairdresser was more reassuring than any clinician. She had seen it many times, said so plainly, and told me what she expected over the next six months.

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MargueriteQuebec City, CA
#7

Mine has thinned and stayed thinner, and I have made my peace with that, and I would not want somebody to read only the full-recovery accounts.

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WinnieCarlisle, UK
#8

What I found hardest was other people not seeing it. It was enormous to me and invisible to everybody else, which made it lonely.

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DillyNewport, UK
#9

Grateful you posted rather than kept it to yourself.

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GroverPortland, ME
#10

Gently disagreeing with Winnie, or rather adding the other half of it.

Mine coincided with a genuinely difficult period at home and I will never know how much was which. The two were completely tangled.

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FabianBasel, CH
#11

I got a scalp check because I was worried and it was straightforward and reassuring and took ten minutes. I had built it up enormously.

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NyalaAddis Ababa, ET
#12

Picking up Fabian’s point rather than starting a new one.

Two years on mine is back to how it was, slightly different in texture, and I no longer think about it at all. That is my whole update.

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AnnikaStockholm, SE
#13

Mine was patchy rather than general and that turned out to be a different question worth asking about specifically. Please do describe the pattern accurately.

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NyreeChristchurch, NZ
#14

What kept me going was reading the older threads here where people posted at the start and again a year later. The year-later posts are the useful ones.

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GudrunAkureyri, IS
#15

Nyree — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

The thing nobody warned me about was that it kept going for a while after the trigger had passed. The lag confused me for months.

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IkeChicago, IL
#16

I wore it up for six months and nobody noticed anything, which I found simultaneously comforting and slightly annoying.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#17

Holding for a second on a habit rather than on anybody: people in this circle call their own symptoms trivial, and they are usually not. If you have done it on this page, I would rather name it than let it go by.

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CoralieMarseille, FR
#18

Reading Ike, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

My experience was that protein intake mattered — not as a cure, but my dietitian flagged that mine had dropped a long way and correcting it seemed to help.

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