Straight Hair suddenly Curly?

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I have a strange question.. I am male and have always had straight hair. I stopped taking Dilantin a few years ago and I now take Keppra. My hair was always short and straight.

About a year ago I started letting my hair grow out long, but now it is very curly. It is so strange and I wondered if anyone who had been on an AED for a long time ever noticed their hair change from straight to curly?

Is it temporary? Or, if I change meds again, could it change again? Is it because Dilantin messed with my hormones in some way? If so, do I need to have something check out to be sure nothing major is wrong?

I know it sounds dumb, but was wondering if anyone had any advice.
 
This is actually a question that I always wondered too.

I'm a woman and always had bone strait hair. After I was diagnosed with epilepsy my hair turned curly. I've had epilepsy for 9 years now and I don't remember when this started but it's still going on. I've got horrible memory problems.

I did talk to my hair dresser about it and she said it could be because of some of the meds that I'm taking or even from having epilepsy in general. She also told me that she's had customers who have had their hair turn curly out of sudden too with out knowing why.
 
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My straight hair started getting wavy after I had kids. I haven't noticed change since beginning meds in 2009. Sorry, no help..
 
Ive been taking medications all my life, so I have no clue if medications have affected my hair or not.
 
I have the opposite going on. My curly hair is turning straight. (and falling out, darn it). My hairdresser says that some medications alter the actual chemical structure of the hair and change what it looks like, how it responds to different products, thickness, etc.
 
I was wondering if it meant that some subtle hormonal change happened after I ended dilantin since that is when I first noticed some sexual issues as well.

Of course, when I had my hormone levels checked they told me that everything was in the "normal reference range", but I never had them checked before, so I didn't have a reference for what would have been normal for ME.

Anyway, I'd heard some women talk about the straight to curly change in regards to pregnancy or hormone changes, and it got me wondering as a man, if the drugs could have done something to me hormone-wise that the normal tests didnt pick up on, and my now curly hair is a result of whatever happened.
 
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