Hair Loss on Tamoxifen

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Hello everyone,

Since my early teenages, I’ve suffered from gyno.
When I was 19 I visited an endo cause I was suspecting hormonal problems (ended up being psychological) but she ended up prescribing me letrozole and afterward tamoxifen to deal with my gyno.
I was very skeptical about it since I read that only time can treat pubertal gyno, but it did indeed improve a lot.
The problem is since I started the Tamoxifen around 3-4 months ago, I started losing lots of hair and now it is very visible.
She said I can use minoxidil to treat the hair loss. I bought it but did not use it yet.
My question is: Will my hair grow back by itself after I finish my treatment with tamoxifen? If so I would probably just wait until I finish the treatment, I only got around 2 months left to go.

She said tamoxifen causes hair loss because it raises bio-available test? So when the bio-available test normalizes after stopping tamoxifen will get back to normal?

Thank you!

PS: This has nothing to do with bodybuilding, but I believe you have better knowledge about the hormonal system than the average doctor out there.

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Anything that can interfere with normal hormonal function has the ability to cause things like hair loss, acne, etc. Hair loss due to normal stuff is a little trickier to nail down as far as what comes back and what doesn’t. There are people who had a full head of hair, went through chemo, lost it, then once in remission they grew it all back. So that tells us that hair loss caused by non-hormonal, non-genetic externalities can be reversed. But with your situation…who knows? You can look into Ralox, which is also a SERM and is effective on gyno. I don’t know if it’ll be better for your hairline, but it’s worth looking in to.

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But yeah, in my case my hair loss is because of the interference of the normal hormonal function through tamoxifen. So when I finish my gyno treatment my hair will get back to growing as usual?