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Keppra & Hair Loss
Wed, 03/14/2007 - 23:45Topic: Medication Issues
I am on Keppra for Migraines that I have had for 16 years. I also take Topamax, but the only medication that helps is the Keppra. I am currently on 1000mg twice daily with my goal dose being 3000mg per day. Just recently, (this past month), my hair has begun to come out in clumps as I brushed it. I am 31 y/o, a mother of 4, and I have shoulder length hair. Does this eventually stabilize? Will it only get worse? I'm not sure if I should just stop the Keppra as my Neuro has suggested, (for the hair loss), or hope that it will eventually find an equilibrium.
Please any input! I'm ready to shave my head and keep on taking the Keppra!
Comments
To the Big Pharmaceutical
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2015-04-29 - 09:56
To the Big Pharmaceutical Companies These pharmaceutical companies make billions and yet they let us take there pills and we lose hair by the handfuls "Did they not know this"? Did they not do tests on people ??I had long thick hair and now it's lank and thin, why are we not told this in the first place thatKeppra can make our hair fall out by the handful, now find us some decent drug that stops harming us.Hope this finds you as it leaves me, Moulting by the handful Win
To the Big Pharmaceutical
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2015-04-29 - 09:59
To the Big Pharmaceutical Companies These pharmaceutical companies make billions and yet they let us take there pills and we lose hair by the handfuls "Did they not know this"? Did they not do tests on people ??I had long thick hair and now it's lank and thin, why are we not told this in the first place thatKeppra can make our hair fall out by the handful, now find us some decent drug that stops harming us.Hope this finds you as it leaves me, Moulting by the handful Win
Re: Keppra & Hair Loss
Submitted by Lughnasagh on Thu, 2013-04-25 - 23:57
Hi keeler, I know this thread is ancient but I'm wondering what happened with your hairloss? I've lost a lot of hair with keppra, body hair too. Strangley my eyelashes came back in about six months ago but I've been completely off it for three months and it's still falling out (although maybe less so, it's hard to tell because I've so much less hair). I was on the stuff for seven years. I hope you got sorted, blessings
Hi keeler, I know this thread is ancient but I'm wondering what happened with your hairloss? I've lost a lot of hair with keppra, body hair too. Strangley my eyelashes came back in about six months ago but I've been completely off it for three months and it's still falling out (although maybe less so, it's hard to tell because I've so much less hair). I was on the stuff for seven years. I hope you got sorted, blessings