Off cycle for 3 months and random hair shedding?

[bboveri]

Strange thing happening here. About 2 years ago after my first cycle and during PCT, my hair started shedding. After about 3 months it stopped with no noticeable hair loss. Chalked it up as just hormones being out of whack. Did 2 more cycles, never had any loss during or post PCT. Now after being off for 3 months, I just started shedding hair again, almost at the same point in the year as I originally shed the first time. Is it just the hair's normal growth cycle? Or is it something more?

 

[xmoo]

the androgens cause more than the usual % of hair to go into telogen (resting phase) at the same time. like a chemical shock-death. it then takes a few months for the now dead follicles to fall out. it's probably a diffuse thinning/shedding not limited to classic MPB areas of the scalp.

unless you are on the path to MPB (which androgens will accelerate), it'll grow back just like last time.

hope that helps

 

[bboveri]

the androgens cause more than the usual % of hair to go into telogen (resting phase) at the same time. like a chemical shock-death. it then takes a few months for the now dead follicles to fall out. it's probably a diffuse thinning/shedding not limited to classic MPB areas of the scalp.

unless you are on the path to MPB (which androgens will accelerate), it'll grow back just like last time.

hope that helps

That's actually what I was thinking. Sort of like a less drastic case of telogen effluvium. Guess I'll give it a month and see what it does.

 

[aphextwin]

The normal person sheds 150 strands of hair a day. Some people shed more....if you are to worried buy some finasteride.

 

[mitochondria]

this has been brought up before here on this board and discussed, it very rare, and i beleive its a sensityivity to the dht , i think it simi related to the speeding up of the gentics of hair loss in your genes, imo if i were that sensistiv to it i would prefer my hair over muscles, you have to ask your self that

 

[repmks]

i would prefer my hair over muscles, you have to ask your self that

same i look like shit with a shaved head. been using topical spiro and minoxidil daily and hoping for the best.

 

[Jarconis]

are there little white bulbs on the ends of the hairs being shed?

 

[repmks]

are there little white bulbs on the ends of the hairs being shed?

what do the little white bulbs signify?

 

[Jarconis]

thats the hair follicle coming out with the hair, so you know you are losing hair permanently, or just going thru a telogen effluvium where you shed a bunch of hair, but it'll all grow back in time.

 

[xmoo]

just to set the record straight, even if you are genetically destined to be bald, ie predisposed to male pattern baldness (MPB), you dont just permanently lose hair after a cycle or two and end up where you would have been 10 or 15 years down the road if not for the AAS.

any sudden excessive fallout is not a result of MPB related issues. If the sudden loss is diffuse (thinning over the entire scalp not limited to classic MPB area), the shed hairs have a white bulb attached, you can tug more than 3 or 4 hairs from a pinchful of hairs consistently over most scalp areas, its likely Telogen Effluvium. It just means lots of hairs went into resting phase at the same time because of some systemic shock.

They'll grow back. In short, white bulbs and diffuse = TE = good in the long term, bad in the short term.

MPB, which occurs as miniaturization of the hair follicle over many successive hair growth cycles, can be accelerated by aas, but it's still a matter of long slow torture rather than the quick shock of TE

 

[bboveri]

are there little white bulbs on the ends of the hairs being shed?

Sometimes? I just plucked one out that a white bulb on it.