The only problem with mine seems to be its turning gray. I will NOT grow old gracefully, its Ms. Clariol for me!!!

Dude if I could donate my hair I would... I like to shave my head, and I hate that I have so much hair.... So, if you know of a way that I could give you my hair I would do it in a heartbeat....

I really don't have an answer for you, wish I did. I have hypothyroidism and put my hair loss down to that. The dry brittle hair I associated with all the meds I take. But I now find that Depakote causes hair loss and I am on 1750mg of that a day. My hair was very thick. People were amazed at how thick my hair was. I couldn't wrap a pony tail holder around my hair more than once. Not the little ones either. A scrunchie was the same way. Now you can see my scalp in the front of my head. It is frustrating. I now have this thing with pulling my hair out, don't know what is up with that but I will have a hair bothering me and have to pull it out. I am sure I will be bald before long, ugh.

God bless you,
Teressa

Teresa, I had to stop taking Depakote for that very reason. Like you, I have very thick hair and can't wrap a pony tail holder around my hair more than once either. And I break regular combs like crazy.

I was only on it for 3 mos when I started to notice my hair everywhere! I had to keep having the plumber out here to unclog my bathtub drain (until I watched him enough times to learn how to do it myself!)

When I went back to my p-doc and told her to take me off of it because of my hair loss, she asked me which was worse, the mood swings or hair loss. Ummmm........ I told her that I didn't think adding a self-esteem issue on top of all the others was exactly good! She put me on Lithium.

I don't know that I was actually intentionally pulling my hair out, but I think I was in amazement and more of a "Hey! LOOK!" and running my hand very easily thru my hair and it would come out the other side full of hair that just fell out. I got a little carried away with that trick! I was just in amazement over it.

But that was several years ago and all is fine now. I was worried it wouldn't reproduce itself, but it did.......... and now I'm back to breaking combs and looking for giant scrunchies.

I know that abilify will make you lose hair. I have a friend that was losing all her hair from it. She had to switch mood stabilizers.

I have a problem with my hair some truns gray and some truns loose.

My hubby says his hair is running from his face

Take protein supplements, I like unjury

abilify can do it too?! i was aware that lamictal could cause hair loss but im on both and im having hair loss problems .. i was going to see about getting off of the lamictal for this reason but now i have to worry about abilify too?! my regular doc suggested prenatal pills and i use nioxin as well..its really freaking me out

Lost half of mine to Depakote now 2 years later it is about 4 inches in length and still growing. Had to switch to Lithium. My pdoc stated taking selenium and zink and your hair will grow back. I tanked up on vitamins and my hair is growing. Hope this helps! Maybe try to Google it for vitamins.

I lost a lot of my hair while I was taking Lithium. I hope I won't have it with Lamictal.

If I were starting this post, I would have called it 'Hairs and our meds', based on my experience!!!! Cuz that's all I've got left!!!! A few hairs!!!
I'm still worrying about ending up with a Homer Simpson combover!!!!
I'm on Seroquel and Lamictal. But I also had an absolutely terrible shock and that can make your hair fall out as well!!
The subject just happened to come up when I was at the dermatologist's for a totally different reason and she said to take Iron, so I started taking that.
The next time I went to see my Pdoc, I actually took a bag of hair with me that represented one brushing, so that he'd know that it was not just 'in' my head, but falling 'out' of it, as well!!!! LOL!!!
He told me to take Biotin, Zinc, Selenium, and Chromium. So I'm taking all that now, too.
The hair loss has slowed considerably. I'm still waiting to see if it's going to start coming back in the way that it used to be.
If you start losing your hair from shock, it usually stops growing for about 3 months and then starts growing back in. Since you naturally lose hair all the time, it starts to look worse and worse for those 3 months, because some is going and none is coming.
Sniff!!!! I miss my thick hair!!!!

how about bathing and washing your hair with something natural like ivory soap or just water and a good soap you know. Head and shoulders has alwauys worked for me...just a suggestion.

Teressa i also pull my hair out its a compulsive disorder called TRICHORRHEXOMANIA. i do it when im bored or nervous. i must have supermans daughter hair because inspite of the meds and me pulling it out, i still have strong healthy thick hair. go figure

I'm also on Abilify and Lamictal, so far no problems with hair loss, I've got enough hair to go around. I will try to prenatal vitamins just in case.