Blood Pressure Medication and Hair Loss
is there any blood pressure medication that will not cause one’s hair to fall out. i have been on lisinopril for 6 months and have noticed my hair thinning greatly. i was taking metformin but stopped because i heard it too can also cause hair loss. Is this true? PLEASE HELP!!!!
My advice is for you to review all of the blood pressure medications through the internet search engines such as Google or Yahoo. The drug side effects on hair loss are clearly published. Your blood pressure control must take a higher priority than hair loss, but moving between drugs with a good doctor helping you is a good idea. It is possible that the drugs are not the cause of your hair loss and you are just experiencing hair loss from an acceleration of the genetic process, so get a hair doctor to help you with that as well.
I’ve been taking lisinopril for about 3 years now and I am 26 years old. Just recently my medication has been increased and in 6 months my hair line receded almost 2 inches back. So dramatic was the loss that there is an obvious color/shading difference between my forehead and where the hair used to be. I’ve lost a lot of weight and my doctor has reduced my lisinopril. If I were able to get off of the medication (if that is the cause) is there a chance that the hair will come back? There is no trend of this type of hair loss in my family and all of my older brothers still have their hair lines.