Hair loss after discontinuing medicine

Patient sam2cpa, male 48 years old

Please answer the following questions in a descriptive manner after careful analysis and recollection of previous experiences and happenings.

1. Describe your main suffering? My hair is falling out on top of my head.



2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body? Left foot pain back from my second toe.


3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings? Stress from work and finances.


4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? In the morning


5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease? I was taking a blood pressure medicine every day, 50 mg of Lopressor hct tablets. I wanted to get off this medicine. I began eating better and exercising. Within 5 months I was able to discontinue the medicine and my blood pressure was back to normal. Within 2 weeks of discontinuing the medicine, my hair began to fall out, this has been just over 2 years ago. Just a few strands, and has continued to get worse. It usually happens during/after a morning shower. 10-40 strands that I notice, maybe even moore. However, if I take a shower later in the day, there is not as much. I have lost half of my hair. All of my family, both sides have thick heads of hair, no baldness or thinning on either side back to my parents, or grandparents. I exercise 4-6 days a week.


6. Which time of the day you are worst? In the morning just after I wake up

7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same? None that I can determine.


8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)? No.


9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather? I enjoy warm weather, more dry than humid.


10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc. Moody, easily aggravated.

- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm? I feel fine.

- Do you like being consoled during your tough times? Yes
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc? No

- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
weeping, talking to one self etc? No

- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife? Sometimes there are financial stresses. It is very difficult to keep everybody happy all of the time. Someone is usually unhappy about something that I do.

11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly? Fears of not being not being able to support the family as they want to be supported.


12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions? Sometime cravings for sugar, candy, cookies.


13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive? Normal,

14. How if your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive? Normal.

15. Is there any kind of food which your body can’t stand? No.

16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs? Since I work out and exercise on a regular basis, I sweat a lot, usually on the upper body, arms, chest, shoulders, face.

17. How is your bowel movement and stool type? Normal, just like they always have been.

18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping? I sleep on my side. Usually all through the night, but sometimes it takes me awhile to fall asleep.


19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general? Yes

20. How do you think you are different from others, if at all? Not at all. I am a hard worker.


21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication? Nothing, just trying to eat good foods.


22. What major diseases are running in your family? Nothing.


23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance 6’5”, 220 lbs, tall, slender. Athletic.