Are you suffering from sudden limp hair during PMS? Or maybe you have chronic illnesses like an infected tooth or anemia. Maybe you are taking painkillers for other chronic pains. If you are taking painkillers from the brufen group it might be your ibuprofen that is causing your hair problems.
Ever noticed how during pms, for example, we get limp hair sometimes? And we things it is hormonal, or due to anemia. Or we get pain during the flu, and get greasy, oily, painful hair roots and we blame our fever. But in the meantime we are popping ibuprofens, completely ignoring the side effects.
Now, periods, for exammple, can cause tremendous amount of pain, and we tend to seek help in aspirin, nirofen and ibuprofen. Some of us even chocolate... But seriously. Ibuprofen is not a game. According to the Daily Mail, there was a small study on 21 people of whom 15 said thst after taking ibuprofen, they had limp, thinner hair and loss of hair. It would take 9 months to get the old hair back...
I remember the days when I had chronic extreme pains like costo and had to take heavy NSAIDS, such as 600 mg ibuprofens and Biofenac (only Biofenac cured me for a while before I got my cortisone shots). Back then I always had these weird limp strands as my front hair, like dog butt hair, cause it was like the roots wanted to go anywhere, just like that kinda hair. It looked the same too. Somehow thin, somehow thick and bent. I also smelled differently. I can smell it now too. I only took one pill of ibuprofen a week ago, and I can just smell it... the "being diseased and drugged with ibuprofen" smell. It smells a little metalic. So did my hair back then when it was dirty. Funny, cause I had anemia too, due to leaky gut.
I mean, of course you won't have the most extra-ordinary mane when you are on your period. Your estrogen and testosterone are lower. But it should never cause hair root pain, thinning hair, sudden limp hairline and weird cowlicks.
It's funny how society keeps claiming that grey hair and balding doesn't come from stress. But Scot Zashin MD said that ibuprofen is a type of stress to the body that puts hair into premature resting state. End of article. So I looked up resting state or telogen. Aparrantly telogen is just a hair growth phase, it is not a permanent state. The hairs are rushed into their death quicker by the ibuprofen... Yeah... that sounds way more comforting... better blame my own period.
God no, don't blame your period. And please try to sit out the pain without medicaion. There are more natural ways to reduce period pain like a jasmine massage, jogging during pms to balance hormones, eating more (yim) fibers (yum) to get rid of excess estrogen, a hot water bottle. Please ladies, please, anyone, men too, stay away from drugs. Stay away from ibuprofen.
So now I know why my hair turned to hell all because of this one pill, and why I woke up in a pool of oils with my bed all wet, like I did once when I took a lot of painkiller for my terrifying costo attacks. It was not my period, no I don't have PMDD, no I don't have perimenopause (thank god). I just took a god damn ibuprofen. I sweated out the same stench when I had a kidney stone when it was 40C°. So it wasn't my body odor, which is normally divine, as a bit of healthy sweat smells really good to me. No, it must have been the loads of painkiller they gave me ti shut me up before firing me with thr kidney stone still jammed in my urethra.
So hopefully not all my hair was pushed to the telogen phase, which is the 3rd out of 4 stages. You ever pluck an eyebrow hair and don't feel anything? That is what a hair is like in the 4th stage. It's dead. Now I know why my roots are hurting, they have problem holding on to my limp hair. I am really curious about the process behind this. I feel like not just my hair aged 10 years, but the rest of me ass well, all in a day. I remember being this way when I was terribly ill with costo. I was a different person, always imbalanced, always angry, always bloated and not at my best looking. A nightmare.
So, ibuprofen.. the stuff that ages you ten years in one day. Since it was only one pill maybe my hair can be rescued. After washing ans two days since that pill, my hair feels less painful now. So, I read that the telogen phase normally takes five to six weeks, without ibuprofen crap that is. Wouldn't surprise me if it took my affected roots to take longer. This is hilarious, on other images, the telogen fase lasts 2 to 4 months, that's 8 to 16 weeks...
Take care and talk to your doctor if you are experiencing side effects from ibuprofen.
x
Helena
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