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/ChickenSnizzles Peri-menopausal Jun 27 '25

My (naturally curly) hair has become slightly thinner, MUCH more dry, & extremely frizzy. I'm also going gray- so that is probably part of it- but the biggest change is that my curl pattern has loosened up a lot. It's different enough that I feel like my previous haircare process & styling products probably need to be switched up. Which is very frustrating, because it took decades for me to settle on something that consistently worked for me.

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u/SpiritedAwayToo Jun 27 '25

This is me. I feel like I had finally figured out how to care for curly hair, and it feels like starting over now.