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I wasn't planning on sharing this publicly ‎ But I realized that what I went through might help others ‎ Especially anyone else on Mounjaro who started losing their hair ‎ ‎I'm a licensed practical nurse for 22 years ‎ Worked in clinics, hospitals, urgent care ‎ Done a little bit of everything ‎ I'm not saying that to show off or anything ‎ I'm saying it because it matters for what happened to me next ‎ I started Mounjaro in January of last year ‎ By March I was down 38 pounds ‎ I was so happy ‎ For the first time in a long time I actually felt like myself again ‎ ‎But I never imagined the medication that gave me my body back would start taking my hair ‎ ‎It started gradually ‎ I could not touch my hair without strands falling out ‎ Get in the shower and it was like the water just melted my hair off my scalp ‎ I'd look down and see it all over my hands, in the drain, on the floor. Clumps coming out with the root ‎ Washing my hair gave me anxiety. I already knew how much was about to come out ‎ I didn't panic at first ‎ I knew rapid weight loss can trigger temporary shedding ‎ I made sure I was getting at least 100 grams of protein a day ‎ But the shedding didn't slow down ‎ So I got bloodwork done ‎ Ferritin was fine Thyroid was fine B12 was fine Vitamin D was fine ‎ Everything was "fine" ‎ Except my hair was falling out in handfuls ‎ ‎I cried in the shower for the first time in years ‎ I had to buy one of those little mesh strainers for my shower drain to catch all the hair ‎ But every time I had to clean it out and pull that ball of hair off of it, I felt sick ‎ I was counting the hairs in my brush ‎ 50 to 100 every time I brushed it ‎ My part was getting wider ‎ I could see my scalp straight through it ‎ My ponytail that used to barely wrap twice now wrapped four times ‎ I used to need the biggest claw clips and now I couldn't find one small enough ‎ I wore a headband to work for three months straight ‎ My coworkers thought it was a style choice ‎ It wasn't ‎ ‎I tried everything I could think of ‎ And I didn't just grab whatever had good Amazon reviews ‎ I work in medicine. I actually read the labels ‎ Biotin. I knew it supports keratin production. Took it for two months. Nothing. ‎ Collagen peptides. I knew they provide amino acid building blocks. Four months. Still nothing. ‎ Special shampoos. Leave-in treatments. Even minoxidil ‎ Nothing made a lasting difference ‎ I stopped wearing my hair up ‎ I stopped getting on video calls ‎ I was scared someone at work would notice how thin it was getting and I wouldn't know what to say ‎‎ By this point I had over $1,100 in supplements and treatments under my bathroom sink ‎ I know the exact number because I tracked it ‎ And nothing worked ‎‎ I started thinking maybe this was just me ‎ Maybe my hair wasn't coming back ‎ Maybe this was just the price of the medication and I had to accept it ‎ I didn't know what else to do ‎‎ I sat in my bathroom that night staring at my scalp in the mirror and thought about quitting Mounjaro entirely ‎‎ 22 years of nursing and I couldn't figure out what was happening to my own hair ‎‎ And I started thinking about it the way I would at work ‎ If a patient came to me and said "I've tried six different treatments over 11 months and nothing worked" — I wouldn't tell them to try a seventh one ‎ I'd say we're treating the wrong thing ‎ So why wasn't I saying that to myself? ‎ That night I couldn't sleep ‎ I got up and sat at my kitchen table with my laptop ‎ But this time I didn't google "best hair growth supplement" like I'd been doing for months ‎ This time I searched like a nurse ‎ I went looking for what was actually CAUSING the hair loss ‎ Not what to take for it ‎ And that's when I found it ‎ Study after study. Research I should have read months ago ‎ I found research suggesting that GLP-1 medications may trigger the body to produce more of a hormone called DHT ‎ I knew what DHT was ‎ I learned about it in nursing school ‎ I just never connected it to my medication ‎ And then it hit me DHT doesn't just thin your hair out ‎ It goes after the follicle itself. Shrinks it ‎ Chokes off the blood supply ‎ And if nothing stops it, the follicle can die completely ‎ That's what may have been happening to me this entire time. And I had no idea ‎ I sat there staring at my screen ‎ Then I did something I should have done 11 months ago ‎ I went to my bathroom. I pulled out every single bottle from under the sink ‎ Biotin. Collagen. The special shampoo. The minoxidil. All of it ‎ I turned them around one by one and read the back of every label ‎ Not one of them addressed DHT. Not one ‎ 11 months. Over $1,100. And I'd been feeding hair follicles that may have been under attack the entire time ‎ And none of them were even trying to solve the actual problem ‎ As a nurse I know better than this ‎ You stop the bleeding before you bandage the wound ‎ You don't pump fluids into a patient who's bleeding out ‎ That's first year stuff ‎ And I missed it on myself. For 11 months ‎ I went back to my laptop. It was almost 3 AM at this point ‎ This time I wasn't looking for another supplement ‎ I was looking for something that specifically addressed DHT levels and was formulated for women on GLP-1 medications ‎ And that's when I found something I hadn't seen before ‎ A gummy that was designed specifically for GLP-1 related hair loss ‎ Two steps. In the right order ‎ Step 1: Ingredients like saw palmetto and pumpkin seed oil that block DHT — stopping what's attacking the follicles first ‎ Step 2: Then keratin, sea moss — the nutritional building blocks that can actually do their job once the foundation is right ‎ As a nurse, the logic made sense. Address what is causing the damage first ‎ Then support the recovery ‎ I ordered them at 4 AM ‎ First couple weeks - honestly nothing. But that didn't surprise me. Nothing real works that fast ‎ Around week 3 - less hair in my brush. Less hair in the drain My hair was not coming out like it was. It was subtle but it was something ‎ By about a month in - ‎ I checked my part line like I did every morning ‎ But this time it looked different. My part didn't look as wide ‎ I took a photo and compared it to one from the month before and it was not even close ‎ I was at 10 to 20 strands when before it was 50 to 100 ‎ That's a noticeable change ‎ Around week 6 - baby hairs along my hairline, along my part Little tiny hairs poking out everywhere I kept checking with a mirror because I didn't believe it at first ‎ After about two months - ‎ I ran my fingers through my hair without flinching for the first time in almost a year ‎ The headband came off ‎ The strainer stayed clean ‎ The real test came at my next hair appointment ‎ My hairstylist stopped mid-cut. She looked at me and said "whatever you're doing, keep doing it." ‎ I hadn't said anything to her ‎ This is the same woman who'd watched my hair thin out for months ‎ And she noticed on her own without me saying a word ‎ That's when I knew it actually worked ‎‎ I'm still on Mounjaro. Still losing weight ‎ And my hair is thicker than it was before I started the medication ‎ I didn't have to choose between my body and my hair ‎‎ Since then I've told every woman I know who's on a GLP-1 ‎ My coworker ordered them after watching my hair come back for two months ‎ She told me she noticed less shedding within a few weeks ‎ My sister in law was on Ozempic and was about to quit because of the hair loss ‎ She didn't have to‎ ‎ Because here's what I wish someone had told me from the start ‎ Every supplement I tried was built for nutritional hair loss ‎ More biotin. More collagen. More protein ‎ But what I experienced on my GLP-1 wasn't nutritional ‎ I believe it was hormonal ‎ And until I addressed that, nothing I tried seemed to make a difference ‎ I learned that the hard way ‎ You don't have to ‎‎ I've linked the gummies that I recommend below. https://balmbare.com/pages/new-revive-gummies ‎‎‎ Don't wait 11 months like I did ‎ Don't spend another dollar on supplements that weren't designed for what's actually happening ‎ Don't sit in your bathroom staring at your scalp thinking about quitting your medication ‎ And don't let anyone tell you this is "just what happens" on GLP-1 ‎ It doesn't have to be ‎ I just wish someone had told me sooner ‎‎ P.S. — My only regret is not finding this sooner. Every month I spent on biotin and collagen was a month my follicles were still under attack. If I'd known about DHT six months earlier, I wouldn't have lost half my hair first. ‎ P.P.S. If you're the type who needs to see it to believe it, give it 3 weeks minimum. That's when the shedding reduction becomes noticeable, not just hopeful. By month 2 is when the new growth starts showing. Your hairdresser will probably notice before you do. Mine did