Hair loss is a huge symptom of a flare for me- right before I was diagnosed with Lupus, I was losing hair like crazy.
There's nothing like the feeling of seeing your own hair collect in the shower drains while you're shampooing it. It's just awful. :worried:
My rhuem. said that the hair loss is a symptom of Lupus, especially in the "pattern" that I lost it- it was all near towards my part-line and crown, in spots about the size of a nickel.
I'm happy to say that the hair loss has stopped now that I've been on Plaquenil for a few months. I really hope it doesn't start again- I have very thin hair to begin with!
I will also say that the person who invented clip-on hair extensions is a god send. As long as I wore my hair down (not clipped up or back) with the extensions clipped in, my hair still looked healthy and you couldn't see the bald spots. I wouldn't wear the extensions all the time, but mostly when my husband and I would be going out somewhere. If you can get the ones made of human hair, you can curl them and flat iron them just like your own real hair. It made me feel 100% better.
