u/thestoryisinthesoil

i am shedding a lot of hair since about two months back. i got off birthcontrol pill in january and have also lost some weight since then. hairloss started (at least to the point where i reacted to it) in may.

a few months before the shedding started i also started to get a very oily scalp and oily hair. i never used to have that. lately i’ve also noticed itching on my scalp, sometimes a burning sensation and overall tingling. i also can feel some small ”bumps” which doesn’t really feel like pimples. they’re smaller, and i can scratch them off. when i scratch them off they feel like small grains of sand almost..?

i have talked to my doctor (GP) about the hairloss a month back (by then i hadn’t noticed a lot of scalp stuff), and she just said ”it’s probably because of going off the pill plus losing weight, it will probably slow down and grow back”…

starting to panic now since the shedding is not slowing down at all. i’ve lost so much hair. i wrote to a dermatologist and requested an appointment last week, still haven’t heard back. i might not get an appointment (through public health care, can’t afford to go private).

i don’t know what to do. for now i’m washing my hair every day since it’s so oily and looks so bad just 24 hours after a wash. i’ve been going back and forth from sensitive/dry scalp shampoo & conditioner, to trying my partners head & shoulders. the head & shoulders made me less oily and made my hair look better, but i don’t know if it’s good for the scalp.

just bought a ketoconazole shampoo and might try that tonight. does that seem like a bad idea for some reason? i’m thinking in case my scalp issues are fungal.

i also have no idea if the hairloss is because of the scalp issues, or the scalp issues is because of the hairloss, or if they’re even connected. i’m just at a loss and i don’t want to lose all my hair, and keep feeling so itchy…

i have been lurking around this subreddit for a while now and it seems full of people who know their stuff. :)

i went off my birth control pills in the beginning of january. i recently started shedding a lot of hair. it’s hard to say exactly when it started but i’ve thought about it for about 2 weeks and maybe it started a little bit before that, like 1 month ago. so let’s say it started shedding about 4 months after going off the pill.

i’ve also been taking omeprazole over the last month and i just found out hairloss can be a side effect of that.

i’m now trying to figure out whether my hairloss comes from stopping the pill, or from taking omeprazole. i know it’s impossible to know, but i’m now looking for information from other people who have experienced hairloss after going off birth control. when did the shedding start lfor you? when did it end/slow down? from what i’ve read it seems that hairloss starting 4 months post bc seems a bit late..

i might need to take omeprazole for longer and i don’t know if i want to if the hairloss comes from that. 🙄