Protein intake and hair — what is actually known

Started 26 June 2026 · 11 replies · 65 hearts · read 1.5k times

EphraimBrooklyn, NY · 26 June 2026

3 weeks ago

Protein intake and hair — what is actually known — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Before anyone says it: yes, I have an appointment booked. I would still like to hear from people who have had this.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

NyreeChristchurch, NZ

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

CoralieMarseille, FR

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

MairéadMayo, IE

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

12me too 3

FabianBasel, CH

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

3me too 2

GudrunAkureyri, IS

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

IkeChicago, IL

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

MarthaCork, IE

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

GroverPortland, ME

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

#10

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

OsmanAnkara, TR

#11

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

5me too 2