I warn about trypophobia because I have kind of a mild case of it myself and this is definitely one of those things causing me to freak the fuck out over it.
I admit that I do not take care of my hair like I should, bad bad me, the problem I have now probably has a lot to do with that issue alone. I also twist my hair constantly and had a severe case of Trichotillomania as a teenager and still have a very mild case of it to this day. To get to what is going on. I was sitting there twisting my hair (like usual) and picking at it about 3 weeks ago and noticed it seemed to be doing something very unusual. My individual hair strands all of a sudden seemed to be getting thinner and thinner and multiplying. I started panicking for a minute and figured it was just my nerves, I thought I might have even been hallucinating. I picked up a section of hair and it seemed very feather like, with no weight to it at all and all of a sudden all the hairs in that section started literally falling apart in my hand, like seriously splitting into multiple different hairs. It seemed like it all started happening at one time, and all of my hair just transformed at that moment, I no longer had one single thick hair on my head, some of them split so thin they were almost barely visible. For the next couple of weeks, my hair started shedding everywhere, my dark sheets were covered in micro hairs that shedded out, my brush, the shower, the carpet, everywhere. It has finally started letting up the past couple of days and the hair I have left is badly damaged and seeming like it is slowly starting that same process.
It gets worse, I was putting on mascara the other night and noticed it wasn't applying right. I looked closer at my eyelashes and they started doing the same thing my head hair did. They were all splitting and had multiplied times 10. They are all so thin I can't even wear mascara because it won't stick.
I did some research on what this could be and by the symptoms it sounds like a condition called Pili Bifurcati. It is where multiple hairs form out of one follicle, grow into one hair and eventually split up, causing shedding and loss of hair. This is where the trypophobia warning comes in, or whatever phobia it is that would cause me to be so freaked out and disgusted by this.
Has anyone had anything similar happen? Or does anyone know anything about this and wht I could do? I've thought about just shaving all of my hair off, every single head hair and body hair I have, but shaving it won't even stop it if it is a deeper issue causing it.
I tried getting a picture of my eyelashes but not sure how well it will show, I'll post it anyways. The white areas you see are hairs that are splitting, definitely not normal to see in eyelashes. The quantity of them is massive, my hairs are a clear blonde color and nowhere near that thick looking normally.
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Here is an image of a hiar I found online showing he same condition
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