I started noticing my hair thinning a few months ago. When I used to wear my hair down and straight, it looked thick and voluminous and sexy.
About 6 months ago, I noticed when I wore it down it looked flat and sad. I figured it was just hormones changes, stress,whatever. But I started to concerned when my ponytail, which used to be pretty thick at the elastic, now took me 5 or 6 wraps to get snug. It started to resemble the thickness of a little girl's pony. More and more hair was coming out in the shower too.
Then one day I woke up to a large bald patch right at the top of my head on the middle part. Then another one. Then another one.
I've had bloodwork done to rule out anything more serious, and my doctor and my derma agree it's alopecia. Nothing serious medical wise, it just makes your hair fall out. Some lose it all, some lose patches. Right now, I'm still in the patch phase, though now I've also lost most of my eyebrows.
In the grand scheme of things, it's not a big deal. I'm healthy and I feel good...but it's hard to not be depressed. I LOVED my hair. It was beautiful, and then one thing that made me loo traditionally pretty.
Right now i use a mix of spray hair filler and clip-in extensions and I can pass, but wigs arent too far off
Anyone else have alopecia?




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