Anyone else have hair loss? Mine happened after only 3 weeks on the drug. If anyone did - did you try something else with success?

That's interesting. How can you be for certain that it's the medication?

I've heard of that happening to addicts who abuse stimulants at high doses chronically for long periods of time (years), but I've never heard of it happening to anyone after short term exposure to stimulants.

Is there any history of male pattern baldness in your "family tree" that you are aware of?

Anyone else have hair loss? Mine happened after only 3 weeks on the drug. If anyone did - did you try something else with success?
Hey, Willt,

Did you have any hair loss before the focalin? I have been doing some research on the 'brain-skin connection' and neuroimmunoendocrine circuitry. (Hey that's a big word, huh)

Anyway, stress or more specifically chronic stress has been linked to skin disorders such as eczema and also very specifcally hair loss and alopecia. Which I have.

I have several articles that were emailed to me by the author of several scientific articles, from the Trends in Immunology Journal, but they are all pdf format. If you are interested, pm me and I can attach them to an email.

That being said, however, there are many meds which can cause hair loss in some individuals. So do you really like the focalin? Could you switch to some other med and see if the hair loss stops? I don't have any specific recommendation, I take Adderall XR, but I had hair loss before starting that, and still have hair loss....

Good luck!

I've always had very thick hair. Now one key thing is I started grad school in jan of 07. so I've read that stress induced hair loss can be 3-6 mth delay. so that coincides with my first round of exams. Just kinda funny it happened while taking the drugs. My doc is competely convinced it is stress- he put me on prozac. The hair loss has slowed down-- well kinda-- it is coming out-follicle and all which is consistent with the stress type hair loss. It's noticable to me but not by others yet. Oh I also now had amenorhea since August-- but I don't know if that is a delayed thing or not.