Dear Lyn,
I would be so grateful if you would answer a question that I have been unable to find the answer to online.
How long can I expect dht-related hair loss to continue after testosterone implantation? My first two rounds of pellets went fine. I began losing a significant amount of hair 24 days into this third round of pellets. I am now 50 days in. I am desperate for the excessive hair shedding to stop. I have been exercising pretty heavily to try to accelerate the burn out of the pellets. I am taking saw palmetto, pumpkin seed oil and biotin and am using a dht blocking shampoo. Should my hair loss symptoms be expected to stop at the 12-week mark (or sooner with daily cardiovascular exercise)? Or does the dht stay in your system beyond the testosterone pellet burnout? Not knowing when this will end or how bald I will get is sheer torture. Any information you can provide would be beyond appreciated.
Thank you,
Pellet sufferer
Dear Pellet Sufferer,
If you haven’t already read my webpage “Pellets…..A Second Look” found on the home page of my website at www.invigom98.sg-host.com, please read to find out why we do NOT recommend pellets for women…..ever. They are a good money maker for the doctor and the pellet manufacturer, but they offer a world of hurt for the recipient.
In your case, your testosterone is traveling down the “5 alpha reductase” methylation pathway which converts your testosterone to dht for male pattern baldness and hair loss. This should stop and slow down after 3 months from the date of insertion, although I can not guarantee this. Everyone is different in how they respond after hair loss from pellets. Your hair will hopefully grow back. Keep doing what you are doing in terms of saw palmetto and biotin. Unless you like the balding look, I would suggest no more pellets. I often wonder why there are not (more?) class action lawsuits against these pellet manufacturers and the doctors who implant them.
At my Happy Hormone Cottage and our Integrative Hormone Center here in southwestern Ohio, we are all about hormone balance and the refilling of our hormone receptors (that deplete with age) for relief of hormone imbalance issues that occur in all women past age 35; but ultimately for help with the prevention of disease as we age: dementia, heart disease, osteoporosis and breast cancer. We use DUTCH (Precision Analytics Lab with Mark Newman) dried urine strip testing (blood work doesn’t provide valuable information…just a number) to determine HOW our hormones are working (methylating) inside our bodies and then we customize a compounded Bioidentical hormone cream strategy that we make at our compounding lab from plant based powders. To learn more, visit my website at invigom98.sg-host.com. To set up a step one phone consultation ($25) you can call us at 513-444-6343. We have women coming in from all over the country (both pellet victims and nonpellet victims) to see our nurse practitioners and then return annually to continue therapy for their best health naturally.
Wishing you all the best.
Lyn
