u/TurbulentDraw1086

I’ve been suffering from SD with hair loss for around a year now. I tried every product (MCT C8 Oil, Nizoral, T/Gel, Coal Tar, etc) and saw little progress my scalp was still flaky and I had loads of hair coming out. As I got private healthcare recently I was able to go see a professional dermatologist for the first time about my issue. They couldn’t really find an answer to control the SD and hair loss so just prescribed me a steroid and told me to get a blood test and check if my ferritin was low as that could be causing the hair loss and stopping the SD recovery (they said it should be 77ug/L+ for healthy hair). So I got a blood test and got my results back and sure enough my ferritin was at 25ug/L which suggests the potential cause of my hair and SD being so bad. I decided to look back at old blood tests and saw that when I was first getting SD and it was very bad my ferritin levels were at 16ug/L which is borderline depletion for my iron levels. And since then i have been taking iron supplements which explains why it’s gone up to 25. i’m not gonna fully focus on recovering my Ferritin levels back up to 70+ so i can try growing my hair back and reducing the severity of my SD if hopefully that is the cause.

Has anyone been in a situation like this and can suggest how to boost Ferritin/Iron levels back to the healthy hair growth levels?

I’ve been using MCT C8 oil on my scalp for around 3 months now and I haven’t seen much in terms of it reducing buildup on my scalp or really helping in anyway. I hear on this sub reddit that it’s amazing though, so i’m just thinking maybe i’m doing it wrong. My MCT C8 oil routine right now is to apply on my scalp twice a week 1-2hours before showering and then gently comb my scalp after to try remove as much buildup as possible, then hop in the shower and use either nizoral or t/gel shampoo. Please let me know if this is how i should be using it or if there is a more effective way.

I’m really just not seeing any improvement in anything I use and i’m starting to rapidly lose hair. i’ve tried most of the common suggestions so if anyone has any niche recommendations please say. the buildup on my scalp is literally superglued to me. (20M,no history of hair loss in family)

Basically I was planning on travelling to Portugal from the UK in the next couple days however my British passport was about to expire so i renewed it, not knowing i was going to be invited to Portugal. I sent it off 6 days ago to get renewed. I do have an american passport so I am still able to leave and get into Portugal however the issue would just be coming back into the UK. Do you think i would be able to come back to the UK on my American passport without having my British passport as long as I get visas? if not is there anything i can do which isnt applying for emergency documents? I was planning to be there for 2 weeks so I could get someone to ship it once it arrives but idk. (planning to fly british airways standby)

(20M no hair loss at all in my family) I’ve had subborheic dermatitis for around a year now. at first it just started off as lots of dandruff which i shrugged off as a dry scalp. however, after a couple months, more and more hair started falling out. at this point i went to the doctor and was diagnosed with sebderm on my scalp, as well as given multiple treatments which ended up doing nothing. at this point i noticed that there was lots of buildup on my scalp which was causing the hair to fall out so i decided to try nizoral whic after a couple weeks i noticed it did nothing. so i went to a dermatologist about (4-5 months ago now). my derm told me to take vitamins, and to try vitchy dercos anti-drandriuff and nizoral and rotate them. i saw no difference. i bought mct oil c8 hoping that would help (apply for 1 hr then comb scalp) and that helped in the moment for like 1 day then the buildup would just re appear. i’m now changing my diet, cutting out yeast foods, carbs snd sugars, however still no progress. It feels like the buildup is superglued to my scalp and that every time i’m able to get rid of bits of it, it just reforms days later. just when i think i’m making progress it resets back to square one. this has really effected my life, my self esteem has dropped significantly ,I find myself avoiding any kind of social events at uni and i have completely lost my confidence in talking to women. i feel pretty depressed all around because of it as i have a bunch of other things in my life bringing me down but this just tops it all off. is there anything more i can do? something ideally targeting the buildup.

Thanks