Thanks for your response! I wouldl ove to only be loosing 5-15 hairs a day i and loosing about 150 hairs daily in the shower. it scares the hell out of me!
Hello sweety - your not alone in this - we all share the same emotional rollercoster! Hold in there you are stil gorgeous! XX Stay intouch and let me know how youget on.
Im doing about the same on teh shedding front - had a gret couple of weeks and then back to hair shed city! Im feeling better about it though - i dont know why, maybesick of worrying but i hit the 12 moth mark and thought - i cant go on lik...
I dont feel feminine any more. Im scred to touch my own hair and i want to cry every time i wash it. I feel its taking over my life and dont know where this will end! I too am scared of loosing the partner i adore despite him telling me daily he loves me not my hair. I am having trouble accepting that i may be loosing my hair for good and cry and cry over the hairs i have loset and those yet to be lost. I dont sleep, i cant not think about it and it has taken all the shine of life. I feel so so alone in this but i know im not. Its the most isolating thing i have ever known!
Helen Thanks for that info. I am hoping I will be lucky too and not notice so much shedding from the minoxidil. I must say, it is a bit of a pain though. I have to use it twice a day and try to leave about 12 hours between applications. Still, I am getting used to it. Take care.
Hi Helen, My hair first started shedding in May of this year. When I would run my fingers through my hair I would come out with about 5 hairs each time,. It was hard to count how many hairs I would loose when I washed it at that time , because it would be all in a clump if you know what I mean? But, I can tell you this it was a LOT!!! I shedd like that from May to about the end of July. Really heavy shedding. enough that I lost half the volume of hair in that little time.
I was scared to death to wash my hair I would actually get sick.. But, I learned from the great women on this site ,that, The hair i lost from washing it was going to come out any way. So, I became more comfortable with washing my hair every other day to keep the scalp clean. I also learned to use ACV as a rince each time I washed it and it stopped the scalp itching for me.
Now as long as I wash it every other day, My shedding is any where fron 5 to 15 a day. but, if I don't wash it every other day, I start to itch and i Loose a lot more .
Hi Helen, I just saw the comment you left on my pic yesterday.. You are soo sweet! thanx so much! The funny thing is I only started get all crazy into fitness after my hair loss, I figured well I can't do anything about my hair so maybe I get get my body in good enough shape so that people will look at that instead of my head! :)-
I know what you mean...I just cringe sometimes when i think about people noticing, but I, as well as you, have stopped placing such emphasis on that...because there is soo much more than GOOD HAIR...because you definitely have a winning smile that..Im sure distracts the focus from your locks.
I would think I would be able to do that. Depending on the how much hair loss you have had and where it is, I may be able to help you. The best things for you to do would be to e-mail me pictures of your hair. I need a straight on shot, a side shop, top of the head as well as a back of the head shot. NO one will see these but me.
I am starting to have more request like this so I have set up a new and private e-mail just for us girls. The e-mail address is hairlossmisty@gmail.com
I hope I can help you. I will do everything I can. We are learning together.
Hi Helen, Everyone tells me repeatedly that it's normal to lose 50-100 hairs per day. When I wash my hair, I know I've lost that amount before I even leave the house in the morning! Everyone knows what's normal for them, so if we think we're losing more hair- we are. I too have stopped blow drying my hair (except for my bangs), and my hair looks dry and messy. I actually wish that ,on humid days like today, I had little frizzy hairs sticking up. That would at least indicate some hair regrowth! Good luck, Vicki
Hello Helen Just to say your new profile photo looks great. Also I wondered how long you had been on minoxidil 6% and whether you had experienced any initial increased hair loss due to it, as I am on minox 4% and I was told that I would initially lose hair before new hair began to grow through. I have been usung it for about 5 weeks. It was quite a roller coaster of emotions deciding whether to start the minox or not but in the end I felt I had no choice. I noticed that you also use Dianette and I wondered what that was? x
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