Itchy scalp and losing hair after diet pills

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Sorry for the long post, in need is some help!

4 years ago I took some pro hormones while I was really into the gym, it was called Epistane and it increases DHT levels, I didn’t know what DHT was at the time until my scalp started itching like crazy and my hair started to thin.

I stopped the pills and struggled for several months with different shampoos and nothing really worked it just took a long time and the itching faded and went back to normal.

Fast forward to May this year I had gained a lot of weight and was very uncomfortable with myself, I went on a diet and decided I would try some diet pills that supposedly had no side effects.

Towards the end of the cycle my head started itching again and my hair thinning but worse than last time. No shampoo is helping, my hair is falling out at alarming speed and my hairline and crown are itching like mad.
I spoke with the company that makes the diet pills and they haven’t had this feedback from anyone else, it doesn’t convert to DHT so they say it should not have any effect on my hair. I am sure it must have been the pills as I was fine before.

I take vitamins everyday and use caffeine shampoo. I have tried medicated shampoos TGell but it d do anything.

Some days it’s worse than others for no apparent reason.


It’s called Hydralean from Predator Nutrition.


The ingredients are:

Dihydromyricetin, Maslinic Acid 20%, Caffeine Anhydrous, Eria Jarensis, Kigelia Africana, Sinomenine, 7-OXO, Stearoyl Vanillylamide)


Any suggestion on what it could be? As in is their anything that I can do to A: stop the itching and B. To stop losing hair.

Thanks in advance!!
 
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It seems you are predisposed to MPB, so anything hormonal (including 7-OXO, which converts to DHEA) can accelerate it.
 
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It seems you a predisposed to MPB, so anything hormonal (including 7-OXO, which converts to DHEA) can accelerate it.
any idea on anything I can do to slow it down or atleast stop the itching? Haven’t taken them since late June now and still actively itching and losing hair. Last time it eventually stopped but seems worse now.
I don’t feel like any shampoo is working though I haven’t tried nizoral yet and have seen people recommend that.
 
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any idea on anything I can do to slow it down or atleast stop the itching? Haven’t taken them since late June now and still actively itching and losing hair. Last time it eventually stopped but seems worse now.
I don’t feel like any shampoo is working though I haven’t tried nizoral yet and have seen people recommend that.
There are some decent threads about it, on our site. Here's one:


I do Not personally recommend Finasteride, as it causes horrible side effects in some guys (like seemingly irreversible impotence, in some).

I personally honestly never cared much whether I lost my own hair (I'm somewhat predispositioned). I have been shaving my head for years, and prefer it that way.
... But I did try some over the counter topicals for a while, only because I was getting things like that for free at the time, as a perk.
I think they were probably helpful.
 
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If you scroll down from here ↓ , you'll also see some similar threads....
 

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Thanks for your responses! Will check the links out and will grab some Nizoral at work tonight hopefully it helps until I find something else! Thanks again
 
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Thanks for your responses! Will check the links out and will grab some Nizoral at work tonight hopefully it helps until I find something else! Thanks again
Any time, brother!
 
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If your prone to mpb then sooner or later your gonna go bald so I would start saving for a hair transplant or get use to shaving it bald. Especially if you plan on using anabolic.

Like I got gyno and I'm prone to prolactin sides so sooner or later I need gyno surgery. If your prone to a side then sooner or later the inevitable will happen.

If my hair thins out I'm absolutely going to get a hair transplant lol
 

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Esp I bought some Nizoral, Alpecin Hybrid and Saw palmetto 3000mg pills.

Alternating daily the Nizoral and Alpecin whilst taking the saw palmetto daily.

Every day before I have a shower I spray some rice water/biotin/caffeine/rosemary oil spray that I bought from Amazon and leave in for an hour. - had good reviews from 11k people on the site.

Occasional itch on my scalp but 80% better than it was!

Hair still falling out but 3-4 hairs when I massage in the shampoo instead of 10+ so hopefully this is the start of a turning point.

Wanting to leave finasteride as a really last resort.

Thought I would give an update!
 
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Esp I bought some Nizoral, Alpecin Hybrid and Saw palmetto 3000mg pills.

Alternating daily the Nizoral and Alpecin whilst taking the saw palmetto daily.

Every day before I have a shower I spray some rice water/biotin/caffeine/rosemary oil spray that I bought from Amazon and leave in for an hour. - had good reviews from 11k people on the site.

Occasional itch on my scalp but 80% better than it was!

Hair still falling out but 3-4 hairs when I massage in the shampoo instead of 10+ so hopefully this is the start of a turning point.

Wanting to leave finasteride as a really last resort.

Thought I would give an update!
I don't know what this has been mentioned, but you do know that losing between 50 and 100 hairs per day is normal day-to-day shedding right?
 

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