Hair Loss from Alcohol Abuse?

I’m 43 years of age. I just quit drinking 6 months ago, my liver was in bad shape to the point my doctor didn’t think I was going to make it. Since then I changed my diet, abstained from using alcohol and anything else that might be hard on my liver. Blood tests that I’ve got recently show my liver to be functioning normal. My health according to my doctor is good. All symptoms like extreme bloating, sight loss due to water leakage from blood vessels, and anxiety attacks, which was the reason why I started to drink in the first place, have gone. The problem I have is that I’m losing hair in large amounts. I NEVER had any noticeable hair loss before and this started 3 months after all my symptoms of alcohol abuse were gone. I still smoke (trying to quit). I take vitamin supplements. my diet is good. what can cause this? Stress?

Diet and an adequate daily intake of vitamins are often a problem with alcoholics, and as you appear to have started to address these issues, it will hopefully become better in the long term. This is a complex problem in that you may have genetic factors in addition to what has impacted your general nutritional issues in the past.

A good examination by a competent hair doctor will show the degree of miniaturization and balding you may have, the status of your donor hair as compared with the areas of loss, and the presence or absence of a telogen effluvium can be evaluated. The long term impact of your past drinking history may still have ramifications for you. I can not help you more directly without examining you.