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Pat94 · 12-22-2015, 07:30 PM

I have read between 10% and 32.4% of women on an AI will experience hair loss of some type. Mine is awful. It appears to be male pattern baldness. There are bald patches in areas around the crown continuing to get worse and severe thinning around the fringe (I think of it as a monk's hair style.) I was on Femara for 3 weeks and had terrible SEs so was taken off of it. A month later I was started on Aromasin and have been on it for a month. The hair loss is from both. My onc has referred me to a dermatologist whom I see in mid-January. Who else has experienced it? Are there any successful options for putting hair back on my head? Or do I break down and finally buy a wig? I just wore toboggan caps for chemo. For some reason this bothers me so much more than the chemo complete baldness. Any advice is greatly appreciated. By the way, I am only 5% ER positive and 0% PR. I did not expect so severe a response to taking an AI.

12-22-2015, 07:30 PM	#1
Pat94 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 100	AI and Hair Loss I have read between 10% and 32.4% of women on an AI will experience hair loss of some type. Mine is awful. It appears to be male pattern baldness. There are bald patches in areas around the crown continuing to get worse and severe thinning around the fringe (I think of it as a monk's hair style.) I was on Femara for 3 weeks and had terrible SEs so was taken off of it. A month later I was started on Aromasin and have been on it for a month. The hair loss is from both. My onc has referred me to a dermatologist whom I see in mid-January. Who else has experienced it? Are there any successful options for putting hair back on my head? Or do I break down and finally buy a wig? I just wore toboggan caps for chemo. For some reason this bothers me so much more than the chemo complete baldness. Any advice is greatly appreciated. By the way, I am only 5% ER positive and 0% PR. I did not expect so severe a response to taking an AI.