Hair

[kitkatz]

Okay folks.  Is anyone out there taking Minoxidil for high blood pressure?  Are you having hair growth everywhere?  I am. I have hair growing where hair ususally does not grow on a woman.  My face is covered with fine hair.  I have to shave or something soon!  I have been told it is the medication and I will have to learn to live with it.  Luckily I am a blonde so the facial hair is not as visible as it could be.  I itched like mad for months when th hair on my back was first growing in. I am slowly turning into Fuzzy Wuzzy, was a bear!
So, anyone else out there a hairy bear due to their medications?

Katherine

[hyperlite]

Sorry I can't complain about any "hair growth"...but if its really a problem for you, you should talk to your nephrologist. There are a million other blood pressure medicines out there. I take an Ace-inhibitor, and it works well for me. Keeps my blood pressure relatively normal (as long as my fluid gains aren't too high) and I don't have any side-effects. The only ones I've heard about for Ace-inhibitors are a dry cough...but I haven't got that. You should look into taking them (unless you can't for some reason)?

[willieandwinnie]

Kitkatz,
My husband Len was on Minoxidil for almost two years. He looked like a bear, honest to God, his arms, hands and feet, he had hairs on his toes that had to be 2 inches long. The cardiologist switch him to coreg and that help. He's hair to return to normal.

Hope this helps.

willieandwinie

[Epoman]

Okay folks.  Is anyone out there taking Minoxidil for high blood pressure?  Are you having hair growth everywhere?  I am. I have hair growing where hair ususally does not grow on a woman.  My face is covered with fine hair.  I have to shave or something soon!  I have been told it is the medication and I will have to learn to live with it.  Luckily I am a blonde so the facial hair is not as visible as it could be.  I itched like mad for months when th hair on my back was first growing in. I am slowly turning into Fuzzy Wuzzy, was a bear!
So, anyone else out there a hairy bear due to their medications?

Katherine

OH YEAH! I tried just about every BP med there is but then we tried Minoxidil and it worked great, but yeah the hair does GROW! I have longer hair on my arms and my beard grow so much faster. I have grown hair where I had none before, even my chest hair got thicker. I was on Minoxidil for several years but recently I have stopped both of my BP meds. 3 weeks now with no BP meds and my BP is perfect.  I stopped it because my BP was getting to low on dialysis try 60/30  now it's a steady 130/70  in the past when my thyroid was out of whack my BP hit 250/130 and higher. 

- Epoman

[goofynina]

Yep,  happend to me too... I just told my dr. that i didnt want to be walking around looking like that and he switched me right away,  I had my face waxed (OUCH)  and it regrew just slightly until the med was out of my system i guess, then i waxed it one more time and that pretty much took care of it.   

[Panda_9]

I grew hair after the transplant. Got hair on the sides of my hairline, and just under my ears. It was soft and blonde, reminded me a bit of a koala lol My arm hair and eyebrows thickened and went dark. This was when I had to start plucking my eyebrows and I was only 15. One good thing was, the hair on my head grew very fast and was incredibly thick and shiny. I got alot of comments on it.
It was all ok until I started Uni, and I dont know why by 3/4 of my hair fell out. I was under a hell of alot of stress with study so that could of been why. I had to chop off my butt length hair as it was so thin and dull. Its still quite thin now, but with regular visits to the hairdresser for trims and treatments its got a little thicker and isnt so dull. Much to my dislike I have to keep it short, as its too thin to be long. All the heparin and anaesthetic doesnt help either!

[Rerun]

Sorry I can't complain about any "hair growth"...but if its really a problem for you, you should talk to your nephrologist. There are a million other blood pressure medicines out there. I take an Ace-inhibitor, and it works well for me. Keeps my blood pressure relatively normal (as long as my fluid gains aren't too high) and I don't have any side-effects. The only ones I've heard about for Ace-inhibitors are a dry cough...but I haven't got that. You should look into taking them (unless you can't for some reason)?

I agree with Hyperlite (That's a first)    There are a million BP medications out there.  If you were getting headaches, you'd be switched, any unwanted side-effect is a problem.

[angieskidney]

am I the only one that never got hair growth from the BP med Minoxidil but instead got a LOT of fluid retention??

[Joe Paul]

No fluid gains for me from the medicine. Hair growth is out of control 

[kitkatz]

Oh Man is the hair growing.  I am going to have to get the face waxed or threaded soon.

The Grizzly Bear with Hair

[Riki]

I started growing facial hair after transplant... I was told that it was a side effect of cyclosporin.. I don't think that's true, because I haven't taken cyclosporin, or any other anti-rejection drug (except pulse prednisone at Christmastime) since a few months after I started dialysis in 2004... I use nair to take it off about once a month... it's gets pretty thick, but I can't do it more often than I do because the nair burns too easily... now, if the hair on my head would start growing in, that would be nice... I lost a lot of it after the last transplant.. and it got really thin, especially on top.. it never grew back...

[kitkatz]

I cannot use Nair on my body.  It burns like heck and I break out.  Even the dr recommended stuff on the shelves at the drug store burns my poor sensitive skin.  I am thinking of shaving, but that would require every day to keep the fuzz down.  What is a girl to do???

[Panda_9]

Using things like nair isnt much different to shaving, it grows back just as quick.

[angieskidney]

You could try waxing? Even though I never have. I used to bleach and also used Nair.

[kitkatz]

OUCH!

[kitkatz]

Okay folks, I am hunting for something to use to get the hair off of my face. If you say get a razor I will scream!   AAAUUUGH!  Something gentle to use that does not hurt too much.

From
The Fuzzy Bear

[angieskidney]

Okay folks, I am hunting for something to use to get the hair off of my face. If you say get a razor I will scream!   AAAUUUGH!  Something gentle to use that does not hurt too much.

From
The Fuzzy Bear

I use Sally Hansen's Hair Remover.

[goofynina]

Hair remover isnt as effective as if you had your face waxed, it stays away longer, i know from experience     It is a little painful but worth the pain in the long run.  Good luck and let us know what you decide ok Kit...