I had really high dhea-s (477) which I believed was causing my hair loss. Doctor put me on dexamethasone 0.25 daily. It stopped my hair loss and lowered my dheas. I just tapered off about a week ago and my dheas are still low but hair loss is starting again. So my question is... Is high dhea-s a symptom of the problem like an inflammatory response or does the high dheas cause hair loss? If my dheas is now normal why did stopping the dexamethasone cause hair loss to return?
At 17 I discovered I have excess body hair and my hair started thinning ( I'm a women ) . In 2013 I did blood tests and it turned out that only DHEA-sulfate was high ( and everything else was normal ). Doctors didn't know how to diagnose me , it wasn't pcos but they put me on 2 pills ( aldactone 100mg and androcur 10mg) after 3 years I redid the blood test and dhea-s was still high . I was able to solve my excessive body hair by doing laser but my hair on scalp kept on thinning .
28 female with diffuse hair loss for long period , not in stress , blood test shows mild deficiency of iron stores (ferritin) with normal hemoglobin, mild zinc deficiency, mild low of HDL . elevated DHEA sulfate (from adrenal) with mild elevation in total testosterone and normal DHT level, low dexamethasone test shows no adrenal hyperplasia or cushing disease , normal U/S no ovarian cyst ,normal FSH , LH , regular cycle ,normal BMI , on vitamins supplements with healthy diet but no improvement