thinning hair

willabec · Post by **willabec** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 5:50 am

anyone experience thinning hair while taking lialda and/or asacol?

Post by **tex** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:54 am

That's a common symptom with Asacol, and so it probably applies to the other mesalamine-based drugs as well.

Tex

Zizzle · Post by **Zizzle** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:32 am

It's one of the reasons I refused treatment with Asacol. Call me vain, but my hair is very thin and shedding too much already! Unless there was some guarantee that it would cure me, I couldn't do it.

sarkin · Post by **sarkin** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:37 am

My hair was thinning because of gluten sensitivity (I thought it was a middle-aged thing) - since getting my diet in order it's much thicker. So it could be the medication, or it could be continued reaction to something you're eating, that you haven't figured out yet.

Good luck,
Sara

JLH · Post by **JLH** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:18 am

Ditto, Z.

TXBrenda · Post by **TXBrenda** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 5:27 pm

I had thinning hair when I was taking asacol. My hair thickened when I stopped taking it. One of my antidepressants can cause thinning hair also. I mentioned this to my psychiatrist. He had me take 400mcg of selenium. He even told me I would find it in 200mcg doses so take 1 in the morning & one in the evening. Guess a few patients had mentioned that side effect! So far the selenium has stopped my hair from getting any thinner.

Don't know if selenium would help with the asacol. Dr. Fine answered my email almost 10 years ago & told me that asacol can also cause D in some people also - another reason I stopped taking that med.

Good luck.

Polly · Post by **Polly** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:05 pm

Hi W!

One of our members, CA Mary, had the same trouble. She found a product that stopped the thinning, if I remember correctly. You might try sending her a PM to find out its name.

Hugs,

Polly

Gabes-Apg · Post by **Gabes-Apg** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 4:24 pm

Excess hair loss, hair thinning is quite often link to deficieny in Folic Acid/folate

Depending on what your current eating plan is, if you are avoiding grains and legumes this may explain the deficiency.

have had any blood tests recently to check your Vit B levels?

Joefnh · Post by **Joefnh** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:24 pm

I noticed some thinning hair initially with the Imuran, but Gabes had suggested back last October to try folic acid and that did help

Joe

nancyl · Post by **nancyl** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:47 pm

What levels of folic acid are we looking at to be adequate? I am going for my annual physical tomorrow and I want to have that and my "B" levels checked.

Nancy