Thanks, Pat!

I was thinking that I should maybe get my TSH levels checked again.

When your hair was falling out like that, did your scalp really hurt too? I have had shedding episodes before over the years, but never to this degree. Everytime I've had them, my scalp really, really hurts. Like even moving a few hairs kills. It's like there are needles in my scalp. Last time this happened, I had to cut my hair really, really short too at that time, and it seemed to help a bit. But again, it has never been this bad. My brush practically needs its own hairdresser...lol

I think that you may be right about the TSH thing. Mine was a bit more than 2before starting the prednisone, then afterwards (when I started it), it got down to 0.75 (I read that steroids suppress our pituitary glands), and I have antibodies to my thyroid. I was thinking that maybe as we lower the prednisone dosage, our TSH starts to go up again, and maybe this makes the hair fall out.

I'm going to let my doctor know about this.

Thanks for your reply, Pat!

Nicky