In today’s video I’ll be showing you my hair loss routine and how I stopped my hair loss (after 12 years of hair loss).
Today’s video i’m going to be giving you a hair loss routine and also mention why it’s for those of you that i knew i had a massive hair shed in june of 2020 so i went to a new old one to get some new medication and see i went to go see my dermatologist for a six since june of 2020. i won’t go into too
Much basically back in april of 2020 i had dengue fever so to speed up the process i got and then because i had started the topical minoxidil it made my hair shed very intensely so because of this massive hair shed and because i wasn’t happy with my old dermatologist i’ve been seeing a new dermatologist is the
Dermatologist that i’m with now as of june 2020 and here she diagnosed me with female pattern hair loss and acute telogen effluvium from the dengue fever. i were to straighten my hair it would look video it actually just looks very sharp but first off i’ve tried all the natural remedies such as oil essential
Oils not straghtening my hair but if you’re having problems with the hair follicle itself then these things aren’t really going to straightening your hair is not good for your hair but that’s only going to cause your hair to dry out and snap it’s not going to cause massive amounts of shedding if you are shedding
Hair from the follicle then you need to treat the hair loss follicle itself first off i have a lot going on with my hair and hair loss so you’re just going to have to bear with me here so that you kind of understand all the different issues going on i want to stress that hair loss is very specific to you
And what’s working for me isn’t necessarily going to work for you everybody is different everybody’s hair loss is different i’m just hoping this can encourage you to maybe seek help if you’re not happy with the solutions that are being brought about for your hair loss so first of all i take iron i have a blood condition
That leaves me with moderately severe anemia so because my causing my hair loss since i was 14 years old. at the age of 19 i asked my doctor or could it be my anemia this medical condition that’s making my hair fall out and my doctor just brushed it off they made me feel really stupid for asking and they also
Didn’t even want to test my blood even though it was part of my yearly checkup because to be the same it doesn’t matter like you don’t need to waste our time testing your blood and yeah that made me feel really crap and really effluvium from when i was 14 was because of very low iron and once i got my iron up my
Hair actually stopped falling out last year my advice to you if you’re experiencing hair loss don’t be afraid to get a second third fourth opinion if your gut is telling you something is wrong and doctors are kind of brushing you off and you feel like the doctor is not taking you seriously then you definitely need
To go and get another opinion, just remember that these doctors they only see you for a few minutes at a time whereas you live with your hair on a daily basis you know what’s going on you know how the hair fall feels you know your hair and your body better than anyone else so if you feel like what they are telling you
Is wrong go get a new opinion. the first dermatologist i was at in thailand it just brushed me off all the time sold me snake oil products for lots of money and eventually i just kind of felt this is wrong they’re not showing me any scientific literature so i left and now i’m at my new dermatologist who is
Very good in june of 2020 i was prescribed oral minoxidil, spironolactone, and zinc. i’m not sure what the zinc dosage is but i assume it’s a standard kind of recommended daily intake of zinc and i’ve been taking these three tablets along with my iron every day since june of 2020 and yet my hair has been growing back
The hair shedding has stopped from the dengue fever and my hairline seems to have gotten a lot better than it was pre-dengue fever i’ve tried topical minoxidil in the past but because i have dermatitis on my scalp it didn’t really work well with my scalp alcohol caused a lot of itching and flaring up and
Flaking and it was pretty unbearable applying it all the time so i did switch to a foam minoxidil which was much better but i just prefer taking on minoxidil you just put it in your mouth and sure maybe eventually in the future i will have to stop taking oral minoxidil because i’m not sure if there are studies on
The long-term effects of ingesting minoxidil orally. minoxidil, spironolactone, and zinc are gonna be your friends if you are experiencing genetic hair loss please speak to your doctor about taking these even if you are not facing hormone problems you can still take spironolactone i had my hormones tested
And everything was fine so originally i thought i couldn’t take spironolactone and it was something that i couldn’t use for hair loss but actually yes you can again ask your doctor about it now as of february 2021 i don’t need to take spironolactone anymore my doctor cut it out because my hair is growing very fine and
I’ll still be taking oral minoxidil as well as zinc tablets and i will still continue to take iron i’ve also been prescribed a topical kind of solution for my scalp because minute which has been causing my hair to fall out a little bit because my scalp is inflamed so i will be using that until the dermatitis
Nizoral shampoo every time i wash my hair i put it on for 5-10 minutes and really kind of scrub my scalp to make sure it gets in there probably for as long as possible because i always have issues with dermatitis there you have it i just want to know there could be many reasons for your hair falling out it could be
Genetic and you could have a female pattern hair loss apparently a lot of women do suffer with female pattern hair loss they just haven’t had it diagnosed so if you have hair loss in the family you could potentially have female pattern hair loss have hair loss on my dad’s side of the family so that’s probably where
I inherited it from your hair loss can be linked to having low iron again this is what caused me to have chronic intelligent effluvium for a very long time my ferritin was at 45 and then when i got it over 70 that’s when my hair stopped falling out everyone says that 70 is the magic number i’m not sure i haven’t really
Read much literature on it it was falling out and 70 was when it stopped falling out you can be experiencing hair loss because of having a fever as well so obviously i had dengue fever in april which caused my hair to fall out massively so if you’ve had illness or a fever would be why your hair is falling out
You could have just acute telogen effluvium which is only temporary and your hair will eventually stop falling out and also if you have dermatitis on your scalp this could also be causing your hair to fall out so again buy some nizoral go to see a dermatologist and get something prescribed to you to help calm dermatitis down
Because at the minute my hair even though i’m on these medications my scalp is very sensitive to hair loss so now that my scalp is inflamed i’m starting to lose my hair just a little bit nothing too crazy like before just little bits here and there that are more noticeable than usual so hopefully once my scalp
Comes down the hair will start falling out if you are suffering with hair loss i really hope that you can find a good doctor who listens to you and actually takes the time to explain things to you and show you the literature on hair loss and let you know why they are prescribing you something if you don’t like your current
Doctor go and find someone else if your doctor is prescribing you snake oil products then just leave go and find a new doctor thank you for watching my video if you found this video useful please give it a like and leave me a comment below in the comment section on some other hair loss related videos that you would
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My Hair Loss Routine | Do Minoxidil and Spironolactone Work? | Female Hair Loss By Jengira Begue
