I just got results from a blood test due to rapid hair loss. My sedimentation rate is at 40 and the normal rate for my age is between 0-10. Does a high sedimentation rate have something to do with hair loss? Can a high sed rate be caused by stress? What do I have to look at in the blood results to know if I have telogen effluvium ?
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Answer: Understanding Hair loss and hair loss treatment options: hair transplant, prp and progesterone
Both are known to cause some degree of hair loss. Depending on whether you have other causes, you should be able to regrow your hair after proper treatment of both of these factors.
You
mentioned that you were stressed over the summer, that may play a role in your
hair loss however, it does not explain a high sed rate. Sed rates are very non-specific and indicate inflammation
of some type. If the sed rate is the
only positive lab, have the sed rate repeated as they have a...