Hair thicker and fuller after menopause: how?

Post date: 2024-04-24 08:45:59

This is mostly idle curiosity but, I know a woman who had thin, fine hair her entire life. During menopause and for a bit after, it was pretty standard menopause hair -- thinning even further, scalp visible, etc. Now, 10 years out, all of a sudden she has insanely thick, fast-growing hair. Like an absolute ton of it. What could cause this?

I have definitely heard of women's hair texture changing during menopause but typically the changes are in the opposite direction, or an increase in curl/texture. This is rather more than that; I would estimate that her hair quantity and thickness have tripled in the past two years.

She is taking biotin supplements but she has always taken them, because her hair was always quite thin and brittle. She doesn't seem to have rapid hair growth anywhere ELSE -- not legs, face, eyebrows, anything. She is not taking any new medications at all besides an antidepressant and an antacid, neither of which has big hair implications as far as I know.

Basically she just seems to randomly have a perfect head of hair after a lifetime of shitty hair!

She's curious about this for a couple reasons: first, if there's something she is accidentally doing to cause this, she doesn't want to stop! And second, if there's some bizarre disease that causes this she'd want to look into it.

Just wondering if the MeFi hive mind has any thoughts or references on this. Is it a thing? What's up with this thing!

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