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Hair started gradually thinning after a stressful event. Had kenalog injections x2. After second round, I noticed small circles of hair loss around the injection sights and also some atrophy. Will this hair grow back? Are the hair follicles damaged permanently?

Jeff Donovan, MD, PhD · Answer

I would need to see the scalp up close and know your full story to best answer this question. If your hair loss patches is indeed from the kenalog AND THE REASON FOR THE HAIR LOSS IN THE FIRST PLACE WAS A NON SCARRING ALOPECIA it will grow back provided you don’t keep having more and more injections in that spot. If you keep having more injections you run the risk of worsening the atrophy and affecting recovery even more profoundly. If your hair loss patches is indeed from the kenalog AND THE REASON FOR THE HAIR LOSS IN THE FIRST PLACE WAS A SCARRING ALOPECIA it may or may not grow back. So the original diagnosis is really important here. Do you have alopecia areata? lichen planopilaris? Other?

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