Periactin (cyproheptadine); any hair loss association?

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HI there,
I have no idea about those meds but my gut feeling would be that if the meds are treating the same problem, i.e. migraines then if one has made your hair fall out then the other may do the same. I would be very cautious. My hair reacts badly to all sorts of medicine and I think that once the hair starts reacting to one sort of medicine it seems very vulnerable to any other as well. At least that is how my hair works. After reacting badly to antiobiotics it also couldn't handle sleeping tablets or asthma medicine among other things so at least with my hair it's sort of developed an intolerace to ALL medicines.
I think it would be wise, if possible, to wait till the hairloss from the first medicine is over so that you can see how it reacts to another medicine so that you don't all of a sudden sit there with hairloss but you don't know if it's still the effect of the Pamelor.
And, again, know that the hair reacts roughly 3 months after the 'trigger'.
Good luck!

Research on histamine involvement in hair growth is conflicting. Personally I don't think histamine has much if any effect on hair growth despite the recent research into the area. I don't think antihistamines would affect hair growth much - but other scientists would disagree with me.

Serotonin specifically does not have much effect on hair growth. It's a question of what else the drug is doing. There does not seem to be any recognised association between hair loss and periactin.
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Why different drugs from a similar class of drugs would have different effects I can't say. Presumably the specifics of how each works determines its chances of promoting side effects.All I can say is, it is not unusual for different drugs in the same class to have different degrees of effect - both beneficial and in terms of side effect profile. Also, as we are each unique, the way each drug interacts with our particular combination of genes can affect the way drugs work in each of us (hence some people get side effects while others can tolerate the same drug with no side effects).
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