Hi Brandy, I will share with you my story and the progress with AA. for me it started about 14 months ago, after taking some antibiotics for about 3 weeks, (although my Dr insists that is do to stress) I began to notice significant loss, and the first patch appeared, right on the back of my head, and grew wider as the weeks went by, about the size of a tenis ball.. then in the following months I got new patches, around the crown and the left side by the ear, now out of the 6 patches that I had, most of them being the size of a looney, 3 of them are fully covered by hair, and out of the last 3, two of those are filling up slowly, and the big one on the back of the head, being the first one is closing up very slowly, now the remaining hair still looks weak and damaged, I could say that I have lost almost half of my hair, all through out, and I keep counting every single hair falling out... :) Now, as far as treatment, I had cortisone injections on some of the patches, about 4 times through all this time, and I am not sure if that is what had helped or not, as they also say that in some cases this conditions 'cures' on it's own, so I always tried to stay positive and hope for best, although it's very hard, there hasn't been one single day since this happend to me that I am not worry about my hair.. anyway, I am here if I could be of any help! Good luck!
Good luck!