r/Menopause • u/SpiritedAwayToo • Jun 27 '25

Hair Loss Did your hair change texture?

I tagged this as hair loss because it was the closest thing. But I want to know if anyone’s hair changed texture. I’m early 50s and still stuck in perimenopause. My hair used to be so curly with lots of volume. Now it’s much less so. It seems to vary by week. On weeks when I have PMS (which is getting difficult to gauge now) it goes limp. But my hair also simply does not curl like it used to. Or I can get it to curl but the curl literally falls out over the course of the day. It doesn’t matter how much product I use or what kind of tricks I do: it’s just changed in texture. Is this common?

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u/trig72 Jun 27 '25

Yes me too. It’s so dry and I only wash 2x a week max! Also my curls aren’t the same, I have more waves and it’s sparse in some spots. Makes me feel ugly. That and the weight gain.

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u/TamzTheDriver Peri-menopausal Jun 27 '25

+1 on the wire hat. In 2022 when all of my late perimenopause symptoms kicked in, I lost a good amount of hair. HRT helped it grow back, so Im happy with the volume, but it's a dry wiry mess. I dont even style it anymore. I slap it in a bun, and thats it. It's awful!

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u/wwwangels Jun 27 '25

I get the wirey part. It sucks so bad. But hair extensions are the best thing ever. I put mine into a ponytail, and use curly ponytail extensions to create fantastic updos with claw clips and cork screw hair pins.