Please, if you could read this and help me out I’d really appreciate it 🙏. 19f In June 2025, I went to the dermatologist and got diagnosed with androgenic alopecia female pattern hair loss. My hair had been thinning for 6 years at that point since I was 12 years old. She said I had genetic thinning and follicle miniaturization. I never shed hair though. I was put on .625mg oral minoxidil from June 2026 to March 2026, but it only made my hair worse because my hair started shedding and wouldn’t regrow. Then, in March of this year I got put on 1.25mg oral minoxidil and 50mg spironolactone, but since then my hair has shed even more. Since June 2025 I have noticed increased facial hair and my body hair grows back faster so I have to wax and shave more. Since March, my shedding has increased even more (losing 200+ hairs daily) and since starting spiro I have more frequent periods. I also did have irregular periods a few years ago when I did long-distance running, but that stopped when I stopped running so much. So, the symptoms that could be PCOS are the extra facial hair growth and irregular periods, but these seem to have started at the same time as my medications (besides my previous history of irregular periods) My derm said to go see an endocrinologist. My lab results just came back that I have high testosterone (79) and really high androstenedione (435). My progesterone was 105 when I was on my period. I also got bloodwork done one month ago which showed low vitamin d and low ferritin, which I am supplementing now. I also started taking saw palmetto and pumpkin seed oil capsules, but idt they help much. I just feel like I’m running out of time to regrow my hair because im losing so much on a daily basis. I’m scared that I may have PCOS bc I really don’t want to be infertile.   submitted by   /u/No-Birthday5148 [link]   [comments]