Type 2 Thinning hair...could blood sugar be the reason?

snidge said:

I'm 63 and female and for about the last 5 years, or since I've been diagnosed, I find my hair is thinning at the top. It's getting quite noticable and my doctor has run thyroid tests and they're fine. Does anyone here (females I guess) have the same problem and has it improved as your blood sugar levels improved? I'm taking vitamins and iron, thyroid meds and trying to bring my sugars down. I guess I just want some good news! Thanks!

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Not just females @snidge ! I was continuously unblocking the plughole. For me it only lasted about 6 months, so are you saying that you've had 5 years of high glucose levels?

snidge said:

Not super high, but A1Cs around 7. Since I've found this site, I'm getting better at reigning them in. Are you saying you reversed some of your hairloss? Thanks for answering!

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Maybe not completely, but at least some. As I am now 55, I'm guessing I'm not likely to regain it all.

Yes I'm a 58 year old woman and lost quite a lot of hair whilst I was taking metformin. My HbA1c s were in the pre-diabetic range then having come down from being diabetic, so in my case I don't think it was high BG's. It grew back when I stopped taking Metformin.

I understood that it was one of the symptoms for diagnosing diabetes. You actually lose hair from all over your body. It is most noticeable if you previously had hairy arms and/or legs but everyone notices when it starts to disappear from the head.

http://www.healthline.com/health/does-diabetes-cause-hair-loss#2

Squire Fulwood said:

I understood that it was one of the symptoms for diagnosing diabetes. You actually lose hair from all over your body. It is most noticeable if you previously had hairy arms and/or legs but everyone notices when it starts to disappear from the head.

http://www.healthline.com/health/does-diabetes-cause-hair-loss#2

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WELL.....you learn something new everyday! I didn't know that! I can remember having some arm hairs when I was still in a school...not that they were noticeable in first place but when the lessons were particularly boring, I would play with the few ones I had. Fast forward 'some' years....and I realized I didn't have a single hair on my arms! 'Oh well, one of those things'...
The good thing is that I hardly have anything on my legs neither...saves me a 'job'..
I do tend to cast my long hairs from head, sometimes periodically very heavily..but I have always put that down to PCOS or 'any old hormonal inbalance'. It might be down to diabetes after all!

Interesting - my hair's been thinning for the last year or so and no tests have shown why. Maybe another early indicator of the insulin resistance.