11/02/2026
Hair shedding doesn’t automatically mean your testosterone needs to go.
And the timing matters more than you might think.
Hair shedding from stress, illness, rapid weight loss, or inadequate nutrition often doesn’t show up until 2–3 months AFTER the trigger.
So the medication you started six weeks ago might get blamed for something that was already happening.
When a patient tells me she’s losing hair, I want to know WHEN it started, whether it’s shedding all over or thinning in a particular pattern, and what changed in the months leading up to it.
I’m also looking at her testosterone dose and levels, medications, nutrition, and whether labs like ferritin or thyroid testing make sense.
Sometimes we adjust testosterone. Sometimes we uncover an entirely different problem. And sometimes both are contributing.
The goal is to make the right decision, not the quickest assumption.
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