I just started taking 500 mg of Met yesterday and my doc said that my hair would grow back, along with my acne clearing up. Has anyone had regrowth with Met? My hair loss has been by far the hardest symptom.
Metformin isn't typically Rx'd for hair loss. Why did your doctor suggest it would have any impact?
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It is important to understand exactly how PCOS causes hair loss. When a woman has PCOS, her body tends to produce androgens. Androgens are a type of hormone that can cause a variety of problems, such as acne. Androgens can also interfere with ovulation, causing fertility problems. One of the androgens, testosterone, can cause unwanted hair growth when there is too much of it in the blood. Testosterone coverts into dihydrotestosterone, sometimes known as DHT.
Body hair is affected by dihydrotestosterone more than the hair of the head. If a woman has a large amount of dihydrotestosterone in her system, the body hairs that are normally very fine will become coarse, and tend to grow toward the navel and on the face. If dihydrotestosterone and other androgens are at very high levels, the head on the hair can actually react differently than body hair. It is much more sensitive to these hormones, and will fall out rather than growing. This can lead to male-pattern balding in women. Metformin does not directly affect the levels of androgens in a woman’s body.
She said the root of the high androgens is high insulin, and regulating your insulin would bring testosterone down, and then everything would be normal. I've also heard of PCOSers getting some regrowth when they lost weight. I'm trying to conceive so I can't take anti-androgens.
I have no real proof that I was losing, so I can't tell you for sure that it stopped.
But pre-starting BC and Met, I felt like the back of my head was thinning, and it hurt to the touch. When I looked in the mirror, the "part" back there looked REALLY wide.
I don't feel like that anymore. I don't know what it means, but I don't run my fingers through my hair and go "Oh, good lord, what the heck" anymore.
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Anyone get hair regrowth with Met? 
