Anyone with hair regrowth after starting CPAP?

I've read some anecdotal reports of hair loss that starts to grow again after starting CPAP. Anyone here have that experience?

It does make sense from a physiologic standpoint, since sleep apnea can alter every hormone in your body. It also causes a stress response that shunts blood away from less necessary body parts like the GI system, the reproductive organs and the skin. Lack of oxygen can be a good reason for hair loss.

sypark wrote:I've read some anecdotal reports of hair loss that starts to grow again after starting CPAP. Anyone here have that experience?

It does make sense from a physiologic standpoint, since sleep apnea can alter every hormone in your body. It also causes a stress response that shunts blood away from less necessary body parts like the GI system, the reproductive organs and the skin. Lack of oxygen can be a good reason for hair loss.

Interesting. I'll have to ask my 85-year-old uncle (who's pretty much been bald forever, was diagnosed with OSA a few months ago and has been using his CPAP since) if he's noticed any hair growing. (Picturing his cue-ball with new sprouts of hair is making me )

I hope there's some truth to it, because it's likely to motivate more people to have a sleep study.

If anything, I'd say hair loss -- from yanking it out at those moments of frustration...