[Aliceiw]

So, I've been dealing with hair loss for about 7 months or so. I've been under a great deal of stress. I work and go to school and I commute an hour to work and back as well as any time we need to get anything from the store (small town with high prices). My doctors say my stress is what is causing the hair loss because my medications haven't changed. I am mentally stable I just have a lot of stress and anxiety. It's odd though because I just internalize it most of the time. I don't have a huge reaction like irritability, crying, etc. The signs are mostly physical like being tired, my hair falling out, and appetite changes. If I wasn't stable I would be totally off the rails with the stress level but my moods are fine. How is it that I am stable but stressed enough that my hair falls out? It seems odd to me. Has anyone had their hair fall out with stress. Did it come back when you stopped having stressors? I've got a year left of school soo... it kind of makes it hard to reduce stress. I am planning on moving so that the commute is a non-issue. Hopefully that will leave me time for some self-care. Any other suggestions? I'm taking a multivitamin and everything that could be tested by a doctor has been. I made sure of that.. anyone with experience, can you share?

[Yzen]

I have a relative that dealt with some hair loss for several months leading up to her wedding. The stress of making plans and the big decision seemed to cause it. It stopped after she got married. I had never heard of that happening before until it happened to her.

[liveforsummer]

A few years ago I lost clumps of hair and ended up with a perfectly bald, egg sized area on the side of my head. My hairdresser saw it first (my long hair had hid it) and then I remembered the clumps coming out in the shower (during an extremely stressful time in my life). Hairdresser said he’d seen it before with clients related to stress and my GP agreed. GP gave me a cream (sorry don’t remember the name) but the hair grew back over a few months.

In general, my hair overall has started thinning but I think that’s tied to hormonal imbalances.

[BeyondtheRainbow]

Centrum Silver (or a regular multi-vitamin plus biotin and selenium) can help. So can a shampoo/conditioner called Nioxin.

I tend to lose hair when stressed, in an episode where I'm not eating well, etc. Those things have helped me.

[BipolaRNurse]

In between the loss of my husband and about 100 pounds, my hair fell out by the handfuls for months and months. I'd heard that meds can cause that too, but I've been on the same ones in the same amounts for a couple of years so I kinda ruled that out. Even my son-in-law, who's also my hair stylist, was alarmed by how much hair I was losing. So I started taking biotin supplements per his recommendation, and months later my hair has finally stopped falling out and new baby hairs are growing back in. My hair is a LOT thinner than it was but that's OK, it was always thick and hard to manage.