Antidepressants ruined my hair

[Arditi]

So i have been going on antidepressants for past few months and since i started using them, i started shedding so much hair. Like insane amounts, one scratch on my head would cause 3 hairs to fall out. How do i reverse the hair loss and get back what i lost?

 

[bishōnenmaxxer]

I've been on SSRis for (2? 3?) months now and I haven't experienced that. Could just be an age thing though since I'm 18.

How old are you?

 

[Arditi]

I've been on SSRis for (2? 3?) months now and I haven't experienced that. Could just be an age thing though since I'm 18.

How old are you?

17. I used to shed hairs before but after i started taking them i started seeing unnormal amounts of hair falling from me

 

[bishōnenmaxxer]

17. I used to shed hairs before but after i started taking them i started seeing unnormal amounts of hair falling from me

Do you know what you're taking specifically? Like is it Seralatine?

 

[Arditi]

Do you know what you're taking specifically? Like is it Seralatine?

Sertralinum

 

[bishōnenmaxxer]

also you're supposed to like my posts if I reply to you so my rep to post ratio doesn't get fucked up

like my posts greycel I'm tryna help you out

 

[bishōnenmaxxer]

Sertralinum

Yeah looked into it quickly and hair loss is a rare, but possible side effect.

Either get off the meds (can't say if you should I don't know you) or continue them and just use some of the hair loss prevention guides here.

 

[wwww]

So i have been going on antidepressants for past few months and since i started using them, i started shedding so much hair. Like insane amounts, one scratch on my head would cause 3 hairs to fall out. How do i reverse the hair loss and get back what i lost?

Get off them jewish pills there going to make you short and subhuman

 

[looksmidder]

Get off them jewish pills there going to make you short and subhuman

unironically can antidepressants affect height and development and shit? i’m on fluoxetine at 15

 

[Graham]

I used to be on sertraline and went from NW 0 (before treatment) to almost NW 3 after. This could just be coincidence as one of my grandparents was bald at a young age (the other was bald when he was old).

I have been off sertraline for around 4 months, but if anything, I've just been getting more bald. Maybe it acts as an accelerant like some steroids used for bodybuilding do, provided the user has underlying male pattern baldness genetics (vast majority of guys do, it just depends on what age it becomes noticeable).

Before / after:

 

[wwww]

unironically can antidepressants affect height and development and shit? i’m on fluoxetine at 15

Yes they close height plates prematurely, how long have u been on them

 

[looksmidder]

Yes they close height plates prematurely, how long have u been on them

WAIT FUCK WHAT

like a month or smth

 

[wwww]

WAIT FUCK WHAT

like a month or smth

My advice get on an non-ssri and research it to make sure it wont fuck ur growth up stimulants also do the same im 15 and 5’8 and my shit is closed

 

[Arditi]

I used to be on sertraline and went from NW 0 (before treatment) to almost NW 3 after. This could just be coincidence as one of my grandparents was bald at a young age (the other was bald when he was old).

I have been off sertraline for around 4 months, but if anything, I've just been getting more bald. Maybe it acts as an accelerant like some steroids used for bodybuilding do, provided the user has underlying male pattern baldness genetics (vast majority of guys do, it just depends on what age it becomes noticeable).

Before / after:
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Im screwed. My dad, grandpa, all uncles are bald.

 

[looksmidder]

My advice get on an non-ssri and research it to make sure it wont fuck ur growth up stimulants also do the same im 15 and 5’8 and my shit is closed

should i stop taking them? like i could just pretend to have them but spit them out. i think it hasn’t closed my plates yet since i grew about an inch in the last few weeks and i was already on it at that point

 

[wwww]

should i stop taking them? like i could just pretend to have them but spit them out. i think it hasn’t closed my plates yet since i grew about an inch in the last few weeks and i was already on it at that point

My mom wont let me get off of them so i just throw them away if they are closed theres always microfractures

 

[Graham]

Yes they close height plates prematurely, how long have u been on them

Shit, I was still growing at 19 / 20, maybe I could've squeezed an extra CM to become truly 6ft 3. Actually pissed rn.

I wish I knew what the fuck I was getting into, despite doing whatever the fucking doctors or psychiatrists said.

 

[wwww]

Shit, I was still growing at 19 / 20, maybe I could've squeezed an extra CM to become truly 6ft 3. Actually pissed rn.

I wish I knew what the fuck I was getting into, despite doing whatever the fucking doctors or psychiatrists said.

Doctors fucking suck they put 12 year olds on heavy medicine and wonder why there in the 5th percentile

 

[bishōnenmaxxer]

should i stop taking them? like i could just pretend to have them but spit them out. i think it hasn’t closed my plates yet since i grew about an inch in the last few weeks and i was already on it at that point

Nigga forget about looksmaxxing for a second.

Why are you on antideppressants anyway?

because I'm depressed

but why?

 

[longjohnmong]

I've been on and off meds for 23 years. I'm Norwood 2 at 39.

 

[looksmidder]

because I'm depressed

 

[Graham]

because I'm depressed

but why?

I wish I asked myself this question sooner than I did. The docs said it can be genetic or hormonal imbalance, and that I have BDD which contributes to it, but in reality it's because I'm mildly ugly, broke, friends went different paths / left behind feeling, etc.