Definitely. I wasn't depressed until 4 mo ago when a doctor ruined my life. If he didn't I would be happy and living a normal life.
Shay, I know you are referring to some degree of baldness from Ambien, if I remember correctly from other things I read in passing. I had the same thing happen to me 11 yrs ago from a Benedryl overdose that I tried to treat with ipecac but did not vomit, so I went to Emergency Care. They gave me charcoal. It took over an hour to vomit that, so it was in my system for 2-3 hrs. The shock caused about 50% (or more) of hair to fall over the course of a year. It came out at the highest rate of 800 strands a day (a full handful). At about the 1 year mark from when it happened, it was growing back. You will notice it first at the forehead if you still have some hair because you'll see tons of strands sticking straight up. As it gets longer, you will look like a chia-head, if you know what a chia pet was. But it takes a bit to see it through other hair if you still have some left.
I don't think I can PM you yet (or maybe I don't know how). I hope you see this so you know there is some hope that it can grow back. (Maybe if someone knows this member well they can point her to this post.) Google the hair loss/growth cycles to get a full understanding of how it works. Feel free to contact me to get the full story of what happened if you want, because I know of a ton of treatment options you can try that are not that common. But mine grew back naturally. I was an otherwise healthy FEMALE and ate well at the time. But this incident did spark a terrible panic disorder that lasted 2 years. However, even in the midst of a terrible panic disorder with all sorts of the physical symptoms of panic attacks, my hair still grew back.
Edit to add: Oh, and the Benedryl OD happened in April. In August, a Dr gave me Lexapro to treat the panic, and I was severely allergic to it and developed hives, went manic, got heartburn so bad it felt I was burning alive, and it depleted my electrolytes so bad I could not walk till I drank bottles and bottles of Gatorade. And my hair STILL grew back the following spring.
