zibilee
11-04-2009, 11:37 PM
Hi,
I just registered and wanted to vent about the frustration I am feeling right now. I am a 34 year old woman with type II diabetes. I recently found out I have Hashimoto's disease and have begun to take synthroid. Since I have started the medication, my hair has been falling out at an alarming rate. I have had to switch doctors because the one I was seeing refused to discuss any other options for treating my hypothyroidism. I went to the new endocrinologist, and he totally blew me off about the hair loss as well. He said, Synthroid is not causing your hair loss, period. I am so angry and sad about all this. I am almost bald in the front of my head and I have had to start consider wearing hats because it looks so bad. The rest of my hair is frizzy, dry and thin as well. I spend most of my time obsessing about it and staring at myself in the mirror trying to fix it so it doesn't look so bad. I am sleeping a lot and crying a lot and trying not to go out in public too much or have face to face conversations with anyone. It is causing stress in my marriage because my husband wants so desperately to help me, and there is nothing he can do. I vacillate between being mad and feeling helpless all the time. I just pushed up my endo appt. to tomorrow, but I am feeling like no matter what I say, he just won't listen to me. Is there anything anyone can say to help me through this? I feel like I am alone out there among all those people with healthy heads of hair.
I just registered and wanted to vent about the frustration I am feeling right now. I am a 34 year old woman with type II diabetes. I recently found out I have Hashimoto's disease and have begun to take synthroid. Since I have started the medication, my hair has been falling out at an alarming rate. I have had to switch doctors because the one I was seeing refused to discuss any other options for treating my hypothyroidism. I went to the new endocrinologist, and he totally blew me off about the hair loss as well. He said, Synthroid is not causing your hair loss, period. I am so angry and sad about all this. I am almost bald in the front of my head and I have had to start consider wearing hats because it looks so bad. The rest of my hair is frizzy, dry and thin as well. I spend most of my time obsessing about it and staring at myself in the mirror trying to fix it so it doesn't look so bad. I am sleeping a lot and crying a lot and trying not to go out in public too much or have face to face conversations with anyone. It is causing stress in my marriage because my husband wants so desperately to help me, and there is nothing he can do. I vacillate between being mad and feeling helpless all the time. I just pushed up my endo appt. to tomorrow, but I am feeling like no matter what I say, he just won't listen to me. Is there anything anyone can say to help me through this? I feel like I am alone out there among all those people with healthy heads of hair.