OH NO....I would never...

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Don't even consider taking Prednisone for hair loss. I am off of it,

thank the Lord. I was put on Prednisone for severe pain and lupus. It

was just a side effect for me. My hair grew back in and

stuff....but...I also gained a bunch of weight. Some women have

totally different reactions to Prednisone. I know a gal that got so

hyper on it and lost weight like crazy. Not me. I am just the

opposite of other people. SLeeping pills wake me up. Pain pills wake

me up.

Anyways...although Prednisone is like a miracle for pain and joint

miseries, it also is a catch 22. It can cause bone loss and

degeneration and in the long run can even cause your own adrenals to

shut down completely. I would NEVER consider taking Prednisone for

hair loss.

What I did...as horrific as this sounds...was wear wigs. I just got

some really gorgeous ones and tried to forget about it. After awhile

it came in.

Hair usually grows in cycles...like for 4 years and then falls out.

Usually, there is another hair pushing out the one that falls out.

When all of it falls out at once, it is just so time consuming for

them to grow back. It is like the trauma, drugs, shock, whatever,

just crashes the normal cycle. Really nutty stuff...and so

agononizing!

One thing for sure, having alot of anxiety does NOT help it one bit.

The more stress I was under, the worse it was, too.

I did want to mention one more thing as to why some surgeons will not

do mastopexies under local.

If they do very meticulous and tedious work, it takes alot of time

and it is VERY VERY precision work. They use teeny tiny needles and

threads and the instruments are very tiny. They do detail work and

use magnifying equipment to see what they are doing. The SLIGHTEST

flinch or movement, or a patient talking, or even getting frightened,

can really be bad in tedious work. The plastic surgeons who allow

implants/explants/mastopexies under general, usually are not using

vascular microsurgery techniques. Also, there are matters such as

awake patients can have to use the bathroom, sneeze, etc.

You certainly have a right to be concerned, but I so much wanted

vascular microsurgery techniques to alleviate scarring and to have

gentility to my tissues, that I took the risk of losing my hair. I

had gone through it once, and lived. Although traumatic, I knew my

hair would grow back, but if my breasts were botched up, then I had

to live with that forever.