Question to everyone about itch and sebum/scalp oil

Hi guys,

Did everyone notice before they started to treat their hair loss that they had an oily/sebum scalp along with the mbp itch? The reason I am asking is because I did notice that I had both of those and they went away when I was able to stop my hair loss .

Recently hairloss has come back but I have a very dry scalp and have pain at the roots of the hair.

Just curious if everyone had itch and oily scalp.

Thanks

read this thread

https://immortalhair.forumotion.com/t8923-my-temples-are-producing-new-hair

For the better part of the duration of my hair loss (first 3/4 of it prior to shaving) I had an awful amount of sebum. Washing it in the morning took care of it for the better part of the day but by evening my scalp would be pretty oily. After waking it was really bad. When it first started and my hair was still very thick, I remember I could wake up in the morning and just stand it on end and spike it up like I had hair gel in. Yeah, that bad. Being the big nerd I am, I used to joke with my brothers and pretend I had gone saiyan hahaha. As you'll note, part of my humor is being funny by not being funny.  

The odd thing is that this went on for most of it, but during the last year or so before I shaved, there was very little sebum production. It was still noticeable in the morning but not nearly to the extent it had been before. Instead the scalp seemed to just be very dry and irritated. The itch did not go away during the entire process.

As I've shaved now, I notice that by day's end it still gets a bit oily, but its not like it was before. I used to get plugs of sebum on my scalp that I'd find when I woke up in the morning, and fallen hairs would have yellowish/whitish plugs on them. Again, that all disappeared during the last year of loss. The funny thing is that it didn't seem to effect the rate of loss either way.

I have no doubt the sebum was androgen related, as I experienced a huge drop in testosterone during the phase the sebum production went down. Its now started to recover and with it the sebum, unfortunately.

I have found that sunlight helps immensely to stop the itch. If I had to guess, I'd say its not only lowering inflammation directly (good thread on this posted recently) but its also controlling microbial populations/overgrowths. I think getting adequate sunlight is a piece of the puzzle, along with the fat soluble vitamins and a near perfect intake of fatty acids (around 50% saturated, 20% PUFA, 30% mono) with as close to a 4:1 ratio of omega 6 to 3 as possible.