Stress from Months Ago Still Causing Female Hair Loss?

I am a 23 year old female and over the past 2 months I have lost over half of my hair. This past year i have gone through a divorce, had a miscarriage, lost my job, and hospitalized and diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. My miscarriage was 6 months ago so i don’t believe that would still be affecting my hair loss but i could be wrong. When i went to the hospital in october for diabetes, my body was in a starvation stage, i was dehydrated, very little potassium, and down to 98lbs. (I regularly weigh 122). I’ve already been tested for thyroid disease and that came back negative. Is it possible that the stress that i had so long ago is just now causing all my hair to fall out? I’m very worried that i might lose it all. My dermotologist put me on over the counter medicine called appearex that contains 2.5 mg of biotin once daily. I’ve taken it for a week and my hair is still falling out by the handfulls. I wish i could find someone that could tell me exactly how to fix this problem but it all seems to be a guessing game. This is a very serious problem especially for females, we cant just go and shave our heads. Please help me if you can, i don’t know what else to do.
Thank you

I would expect that the some or all of your hair will return within a year. The body takes months to go through its cycle and the telogen cycle in people can vary between 3-8 months. That is the minimum time to get reversal to show. I am assuming that you do not have genetic hair loss as well, which can be precipitated by the stress and then some of the hair may not return.

Any residual elements of the above causes of hair loss, may continue to hold back growth and you have many causes all going on at the same time. Show patience, because you have little choice but to continue to correct your problems with the proper medical management (it seems that you are getting that now). Hopefully you will be rewarded with a return of your hair.