Okay, I know it’s not the keto, because I grew up with PCOS and my hormones have always been out of wack. And my auntie Pearl was damn near bald for most of my living memory.
But dayum. I hate seeing my pink scalp and my part was getting wider by the day, and shaven heads are not a good look for old women.
So I’m doing the minoxidil thing. It’s been a month now. I’ll let y’all know how it works out.
Make sure it’s not your shampoo. I thought I was having a health issue when my hair started falling out. Yurns out it was my shampoo.
I will be watching to see if you give a positive report. I have been thinking about trying minoxidil too. I have been blaming bad genes from my mom for thinning hair, but it just occurred to me that she was on the same RA medication that I am on, so maybe it’s not really hereditary. It could be the methotrexate. For me, anyway.
People say as soon as you quit using minoxidil, the benefits will quit. I wonder if that means all the new hair will fall out, or there will be no more new hair coming in. Each hair lives for several months, doesn’t it? Or years?
Yeah, if you want to keep any additional hair (if it works) you need to use it forever. I got 6 months worth of the Kirkland brand from amazon for less than 40 bucks. I’ll spring for 80 bucks a year to get some of my hair back.
The reviewers on Amazon that were women bought the men’s 5 percent and use it once a day instead of twice and many reported positive results, so that’s what I’m doing. The women’s cost more. No surprise there.
I am timidly hopeful!
Diana - a quick google about methotrexate and hair loss yields this:
One of the culprits: methotrexate. It’s the most commonly prescribed disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) for rheumatoid arthritis. It’s also responsible for hair loss in about 1 to 3 percent of people.
May the odds be ever in your favor!
UPDATE: Five months in and I wanted to report that I have seen noticeable improvement. I can actually achieve some hair-height on the top of my head now, which was impossible before the minoxidil. YAY. My sis says she sees less of my scalp too, so it’s not just me being fooled by undue optimism or wishful vision.
I am pleased!
Happy for your results Linda!
I’ve read everything Dr Fung has written on his blog and I don’t envy y’all the PCOS symptoms, although I have seemed to have dodged the alopecia bullet in my own genes.
https://idmprogram.com/pcos-anovulatory-cycles-and-hyperinsulinemia-pcos-9/
Alrighty! I’m gonna get me some minoxidil, too. I hope I don’t grow hair in inappropriate places.
Don’t mistake it for your eardrops. 
Sometimes it runs down my forehead and I don’t notice, but I haven’t noticed any trails of surplus hair starting up there. I also use a qtip to put it on my eyebrows which have also disappeared over the years, and there’s even slight improvement there. Will see how it looks after a year!
Also, only using it once a day makes it last nearly twice as long. Cheap to get some hair back, I’d say!
UPDATE: I’ve now been using the minoxidil for 8 months and I am EXTREMELY pleased with the results. Even with overhead lighting I can no longer see my pink scalp real estate shining through the sparse foliage. I couldn’t be happier! YAY.