Author: hd458

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:46 pm

Hi-
I found this forum tonite after washing my hair and pulling out clumps AGAIN & freaking out AGAIN. I noticed a lot of the people on this forum are male, but I’m female & it’s happening to me.

I’ve been on suboxone (dissolves, 4-8mg per day) for about 10 months now. Almost as soon as I started taking it I noticed my nails were much weaker than usual — & they’re usually very strong. But my hair was even worse — from the beginning, it felt to me like the strands had actually gotten thinner. To be precise, my hair felt less like strands of hair & more like strings of spiderwebs — that very silky & VERY thin feel, but also much thinner LOOKING. It was NOT my imagination. My hair grows past my shoulders & before taking this, if I would see a hair against my bathtub wall, it was about average in girth – not to thick, but not too thin. Once I started the Sub, my hair strands were markedly thinner against the white tub; sometimes I could barely see it! It made no sense to me & my doctor kept insisting I was imagining it, but I wasn’t.

Now it’s 10 months later & my hair had overall been much thinner-feeling, but the loss wasn’t too bad. However, within the past month or so, I had stepped down my dose significantly b/c a friend had made me paranoid about withdrawals & I guess I wanted to see if I would get any. I realized I could do fine on a 4mg dose (as opposed to 8mg) so my dr. agreed to put me there — but occasionally I would take an 8mg if I felt a bit more need for it. So I don’t know if all this recent dose-changing has messed with my system or if something else is up b/c within these past few weeks, my hair has been falling out in clumps & it’s NOT STOPPING!!! I got bloodwork done this past Friday (it’s Monday today) so I’m kinda hoping it’s just a random vitamin deficiency that I can fix b/c otherwise I might lose my mind. I am now scared to death to wash my hair, brush it, etc. I feel like I’m gonna need a wig soon! I’m 33 — not in menopause or anything — AUGH! I don’t know what else to do!