lazy
08-25-2009, 04:34 PM
Can anyone tell me if, after, or stopping using products designed to grow hair you shed more? Last year I noticed my hair was thin and limp. I bought Super Biotin (which I still take) and a bottle of Mega-Tek which I used in Nov 08 for a few months and gradually stopped using altogether. My hair was the best it had been in ages around March 09 - in shine and volume and the growth was great too. The new growth was extremely fine like invisible cotton and had no weight to it - blowing like crazy in a breeze and sticking to my face. Yuk! I have changed to SLS free shampoo over the last few months. However last month my hair changed quite dramatically and became a sort of grizzly shade, The texture became sort of gritty, shine was far less and the shedding increased which worries me as I have fine, thin hair to start with and can't afford to lose any. Hair seems to be dropping everywhere and each hair is about 10" long. I thought it was breakage but on very close inspection there is a tiny, tiny bulb that I could only see with a magnifier.
My hope was the growth accelerator revved up my folicles to produce hair and thought as they shed they might (fingers crossed) be replaced with normal fine hair of a thicker diameter. I have considered it may be due to a seasonal shed yet can't fathom out why the condition changed too and so quickly. I have read that you usually shed after 3 months of a trauma, child birth, weight loss etc. I haven't had anything like that. I am still using Biotin regularly and don't know whether to start back on the Mega-tek or another product. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
My hope was the growth accelerator revved up my folicles to produce hair and thought as they shed they might (fingers crossed) be replaced with normal fine hair of a thicker diameter. I have considered it may be due to a seasonal shed yet can't fathom out why the condition changed too and so quickly. I have read that you usually shed after 3 months of a trauma, child birth, weight loss etc. I haven't had anything like that. I am still using Biotin regularly and don't know whether to start back on the Mega-tek or another product. Any thoughts would be appreciated.