What to bring to a hair loss appointment: a checklist

By Muhammad Hammad · 23 October 2026 · All guides

Hair loss appointments are short, and follow-ups are often months apart. If you walk in relying on memory, most of the time goes on reconstructing what happened since the last visit. A little preparation turns that time into an actual conversation about your treatment.

Your treatments

• Everything you take for your hair, including supplements and shampoos: name, strength, amount and when you take it.
• When you started each one, and anything you've stopped and why.
• How consistently you've taken them. An honest figure, like "about 9 doses in 10", is far more useful than "pretty well".

Your photos

• Your baseline photos, from before you started treatment.
• Your most recent set, taken the same way: the same light, angles and distance.
• The same angles side by side, so your doctor can compare them quickly. See how to take progress photos you can compare.

What you've noticed

• Changes in shedding, with rough dates.
• Scalp changes such as itching, redness or flaking.
• Anything that might be a side effect, and when it started.
• Life changes your doctor may ask about, like illness, stress, diet or new medication.

Test results

• Recent blood tests, with the values and the reference range printed on each report.
• Earlier results of the same tests, if you have them, so changes are easy to see.

Your questions

Write them down before you go; it's easy to forget them in the room. For example:

• How long before I should expect to judge this treatment?
• What would make you change or stop it?
• Is there anything I should be tracking that I'm not?
• When should I come back?

Afterwards

• Write down what changed: any new treatment, dose or instruction, and the date.
• Note when your next review is, and set your next photo session before it.

How Hairbook helps

Hairbook turns what you've logged into a two-page PDF for your appointment: your treatments and how closely you followed them, weekly adherence, check-ins with anything you marked as worse highlighted, and lab results against their reference ranges. You can see a sample report made from demo data.

Hairbook is a tracker. It does not diagnose, treat or recommend treatment. Talk to your doctor about your treatment.