October 28 2009, 10:35 am PT | Posted in: Drugs (Cause Hair Loss) + Hair Loss Causes
Hi. My question is regrading accutane and hair loss. I took accutane when I was 15 at 40 mg for 6 months. I didn’t notice any hair loss at the time but a few years after I started noticing that the hair on the top of my head has been getting thin. Now at 23 my hairline has receeded somewhat particularly fast. I really don’t know what to think as I have been off of accutane for 8 years. I heard alot of people on the Internet talk about the effect it has on the hair. My question is could this hairloss be related to the accutane I took 8 years ago or could this be mpb?
I frankly can not tell you if you have a connection between drug-induced hair loss from years earlier or if you just have male pattern baldness from genetic causes. It is true that Accutane (isotretinoin) does seem to cause hair loss, but I can not comment on an 8 year gap between taking the drug and the appearance of the hair loss.
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I was on accutane twice for 6 months each in my late teens.. i recall my hair being extremely soft and never oily the entire time, it rarely needed to be washed and was always thick.. i began to thin slowly 5 years later. The coincidence is because the same hormones that have a role in acne have a dominating role in baldness. Furthermore, hair loss from accutane is equal in both men and women and affects all hair, not in the mpb form. I’ve seen people’s hair thin from accutane, its their entire hair equally