Switched to Sulfasalazine 7 months ago on 2000mg. 4 months on 2000mg per day but no improvement but also no side effects. Reduced me to 1000 mg nonetheless. There are several existing treatments for alopecia areata but none of them offers stable and satisfactory results. Subject: Re: Sulfasalazine OR Methotrexate? 3 … If medication is … Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease mediated by T lymphocytes that results in patchy or confluent hair loss involving the scalp and body. Alopecia areata is an unpredictable, autoimmune, hair loss disease affecting about 2% of the population. Forced to stop Methotrexate at week 8 due to hair loss. 1 The pathologic process involves a perifollicular T-cell infiltrate that causes a cytokine-mediated premature conversion of affected hairs from anagen to telogen 2 and abnormal keratinization with resultant abnormalities of the hair shaft. typed in Sulfasalazine didn't show up. Promising results have been published in the past with the use of sulfasalazine in alopecia areata. Docs didn’t believe it was sulfa, just stress. I don't fancy getting chronic diarrhoea or vomiting either. Last fall, I started on 2000 mg sulfasalazine. I was told it was the PsA. where the heck do you buy this stuff on alldaychemist? At 5 months I developed plantar fasciitis, severe fatigue, apathy, low mood and stiffness throughout my whole body. In one study, 26 patients with recalcitrant or severe alopecia areata (>40% scalp hair loss) received treatment with sulfasalazine 500 mg bid for the first month, then 1 g bid for the second month, and 1.5 g bid for a further three months. I'm 25 and this is NOT a side effect of sulfasalazine, so I guess this is just what many uc sufferers have to … Switched to Sulfasalazine and the hair loss stopped, but in the last couple months started losing hair again and have a bald patch on the back of my head. Sulfasalazine for Alopecia Areata. Major hair loss started a few months after - I mean, major. Oh yes hair loss, I was worried about that one too, to be honest all the possible side effects sound pretty unpleasant, even if not hugely serious (like lung damage which does seem to be fairly rare). I’ve never experienced anything like this, am relatively young, ethnic so have lots of hair to come out (and oh it did). A deficiency in folic acid can cause thinning and loss of hair. Sulfasalazine oral tablet is a prescription medication that's used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and ulcerative colitis. Sulfasalazine can have an affect on folic acid levels causing a deficiency. People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may experience hair loss as a symptom of the disease or due to medication that they are taking. how much did 3 months supply cost you? 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