How do you know that your CTE is in reverse?

raj31,Thank you for the question. Well, this requires treatment and thorough evaluation by a hair loss specialist or dermatologist. Care monitoring with serial photography, dermoscopy , hair mass index, and total hair counts can provide the answer. All the best,Bernardino Arocha, MD

CTE is a hair shedding condition in which patients lose massive amounts of hair some days followed by little hair on other days.To know if your CTE is in remission, you'll need 6 months. If over a period of 6 months you find the shedding is reduced and the number of days with massive shedding is reduced, and you see hair sprouting all over the scalp - the CTE is probably in a remission.CTE needs long term monitoring to know if it is improving. Some weeks can be good - with minimal shedding and this gives a false sense that things have improved. One needs monitoring over months.For my own patients - I sometimes add hair counts. This provides a more quantitative means of following shedding. It is tedious and time consuming and emotional to collect hairs so we don't always do. But that's a great way to ultimately follow he shedding in CTE.

The pull test generally tells you how active your CTE is. You can also have a HAIRCHECK measurement done before and after you believe that the condition has become better and this may point out when you reached the end of it.