Hair shedding with two possible causes

Started 11 July 2025 · 22 replies · 207 hearts · read 3.2k times

Bryn MNeath, UK · 11 July 2025

about a year ago

Hair shedding with two possible causes Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

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

I have written down when it happens and how long it lasts, because I could not answer either of those questions when my GP asked and I felt foolish.

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.

Something is going on and I would like to know whether other people have had it, mostly so I know whether to raise it or wait it out.

Yes, two. I know how that reads written down, and it is the number, so it is going in the title where people can see it.

Thanks in advance. Even a one-line "yes, me too" would help more than you would think.

PrueChester, UK

Nothing here is medical advice and this is a subject where that matters more than usual, because the numbers genuinely need somebody qualified reading them.

MinnieDoncaster, UK

I did not know until this circle that a recheck at a set interval was standard. I had been assuming somebody would call me if something looked wrong.

TansyLudlow, UK

What Minnie described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Two sets of bloods and two sets of questions, and getting the two teams to look at the same piece of paper was most of the work.

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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

Thank you for writing something this unglamorous down. Half this circle has had it and almost nobody says so, and you have just made the next thread easier for somebody.

PersisBristol, UK

Minnie, thank you for that. It gives me somewhere to start from.

What I would flag is that a new symptom is worth mentioning to both teams rather than deciding for yourself which one it belongs to.

GrizelKirkcaldy, UK

I found a nurse-led clinic that handles the reviews and it is far more thorough than any GP appointment I have had on this.

GusStirling, UK

The most useful thing I did was book the bloods and the review as a pair, so I never sat on a result for three weeks waiting to discuss it.

GaelanInverurie, UK

Coming back to what Persis wrote further up, because it is the bit I keep thinking about.

Mine was diagnosed years before any of this and I have found the two entirely manageable together, which is a boring but real report.

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ÖzlemIzmir, TR

The absorption question was the one I could not get a straight answer to for a long time, and my endocrinology nurse eventually gave me a very clear one.

PerlaManila, PH

#10

My results have been stable throughout and I am told that is common. I mention it because the threads that get written are usually the ones where something changed.

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PerryCardigan, UK

#11

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

Coming back after my recheck to say everything was unremarkable and no change was needed. Leaving it here for the next person searching this circle at midnight.

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LlianCarmarthen, UK

#12

Bookmarking this. Thank you.

BryonyMalvern, UK

#13

My levels shifted and needed rechecking, which my endocrinologist had told me to expect and my GP had not. Worth knowing in advance.

Bryn MNeath, UK

#14

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

The timing of when I take mine relative to everything else mattered, and a pharmacist sorted it out in one conversation after months of me guessing.

PrueChester, UK

#15

My endocrinologist was much more relaxed about all of this than I was, and being told plainly that this is well-trodden ground was the reassurance I needed.

MinnieDoncaster, UK

#16

The thing I got wrong was comparing my numbers to other people's. The ranges are individual and the trend matters more than the figure.

TansyLudlow, UK

#17

Coming back to what Prue wrote further up, because it is the bit I keep thinking about.

What I did not know was that a change in one thing can move the numbers in the other, and that is expected rather than alarming.

MaudGhent, BE

#18

I take mine at a completely different time of day now and it is the only change that was needed. Very small, very effective.

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PersisBristol, UK

#19

Thank you. Genuinely.

GrizelKirkcaldy, UK

#20

Somebody in this circle told me to write down my questions in order of how much they mattered, because appointments run out of time. Best advice I have had for these reviews.

MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

#21

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GaelanInverurie, UK

#22

Read, understood, and glad you are here.