I don't mind my hair becoming curly; it's cheaper than a perm. After I was on pred for awhile the hair coloring my beautician always used started resulting in a different shade. At first he thought he made a mistake and double checked the formula. Apparently the medication enters the hair shaft over time changing its characteristics. The same thing happened after I was very ill in 2012. I had been treated with assorted antibiotics, antifungals, par enteral nutrition and pain killers. My brown hair came out red with the same formula.
Don't know about the colouring issues, as I never have. But lately my hair feels like it's back to its normal thickness, although I seem to be losing great handfuls of it, and I wonder if what's happening is that the hair which is coming out now is the hair which was growing in when I was at higher doses of pred, and had much thinner hair with different characteristics than I did before and do now?
Como mi cabello se rizó con el tratamiento, tienes razón, es mucho más barato que un rizo permanente. Ahora está en 7.5, me decepcionaría si mis rizos desaparecieran... Al estar en mis 70 años, estoy feliz de tener cabello plateado y con un toque de vitapoint se ve realmente bonito, mi peluquera también admira el color.
Nothing wrong with being a natural platinum blonde I was almost white at 40 - and abandoned the chemical colour I had used for 10 years after the day before I was 30 I looked in the mirror and decided they didn't look like the greatly admired silver streaks any more! Tried lighter colours but couldn't find one I liked and since then - I've use the money for better things
prednisone impacts hair for sure. I always had dense hair and for every haircut I needed thining. I still need it, but much less and only in the back and sides. Seems like pred is doing thining for me at the top of the head . Also hair feels less flexible, kind of dry. It must be one of side effects of using pred, oh well ... there are worse things in life then "bad" hair.
Supongo que depende de la edad que tengas Karenjaninaz, pero el gris puede ser impresionante a cualquier edad. Al parecer, en este momento muchas mujeres jóvenes se tiñen el cabello de plata porque está muy de moda. Probablemente eso no sea muy útil, pero lamento mucho que estés teniendo problemas con tu cabello, ya que sé lo importante que es para nosotras.
No sé sobre el rizado, pero mi cabello, que es naturalmente muy rizado/rizado y muy grueso, ahora, después de estar en pred desde abril, se está cayendo a puñados... además, es mucho más fino de lo que era. Me he vuelto gris desde que tenía poco más de cincuenta años y ahora soy blanca en la parte delantera y mayormente gris en la parte de atrás. Solo deseo que todo se vuelva blanco y deje de caerse. ¿Alguien puede decirme si el cabello deja de caerse, o tengo que esperar hasta que, con suerte, la PMR decida apagarse por sí sola, en cuyo caso, si tarda varios años, es probable que me quede calva...
Often it isn't the pred - it is the illness itself but it doesn't start being noticeable for some months after being ill. I had a really bad hair period 4 or 5 months after being in hospital with something else - I'd been on pred for years by then and it hadn't been too much of a problem before. But it all grew back - at first curly and then as it got longer, less curly. Now the long top hair is fairly easy to blow-dry smooth - the shorter hair underneat around the nape of my neck is still very unmanageably curly...
My very fine, straight hair started becoming wavy about 18 months ago. I initially put it down to 6 months on MTX, but it's still wavy one year on. I've been on high doses of pred for about 2.5 years. Now finally managed to taper to 10.5mg.
I hope it stays wavy, love it. I shampoo and I'm ready to go. No need for lengthy styling. 😊
