A women of child bearing age or a women hoping to get pregnant soon faces quite dilemma if she is also suffering from hair loss conditions. Early treatments for hair loss are certainly recommended but all hair loss treatments for women carry significant risks to pregnancy. Although tropical minoxidil is considered safest, even this should not be taken during pregnancy without consulting a doctor.
Women who are of an age when the world is opening up to them— careers, relationships, motherhood etc. are facing the possibility of having children. This dilemma also brings severe depression in some cases and failure to make any choice whatsoever.
A woman voices this concern: “I am at the age where I want to settle down and have children very much,but going off the spironolactone will definitely have an awful effect on my hair and face.” She fears that if it takes six months to a year to get pregnant, her skin and hair will be a mess by the time she gives birth and finishes breast-feeding. “It seems awful that the one thing I want so much-c-motherhood-e-is the same thing I am so afraid of. Not to mention that I wonder if I could have done myself any harm through saw palmetto or spironolactone.”
A patient who had severe psoriasis and found a treatment , that miraculously cleared it up; for the first time in his life, he had normal skin. The drug had a devastating side effect, however, and he ended up on dialysis to save his kidneys, Once his health was restored, he begged to be put back on the drug! Insane? Perhaps, but ,given what appearance means. in today’s society, it’s completely understandable if you are going through such a dilemma. Women losing their hair can identify with this.
If you are pregnant or considering getting pregnant, talk about your options for your hair loss with your physicians and have them help you map out a plan to get through it. The one good thing about pregnancy is that for its duration, most of us gain a bit of hair as the shedding stage slows way down.
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