All Discussions Tagged 'teenager' - Alopecia World2024-03-29T06:31:29Zhttps://alopeciaworld.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=teenager&feed=yes&xn_auth=noAA Market Research: Paid Parent Interviews in Chicagoland and Philadelphia July 10-14, 2017tag:alopeciaworld.com,2017-07-02:2022678:Topic:13820602017-07-02T14:55:27.057ZSpenserhttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/Spenser
<p><span> Chicagoland and Philadelphia "Alopecia Parents/caregivers": Your feedback needed!</span></p>
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<p><span>Got a child 13-17 with moderate to severe AA/AT/AU or atopic dermatitis diagnosed more than a year ago?</span></p>
<p><span>Be interviewed in person July 10/11 (Philly) or July 13/14 (Chicago) for alopecia areata market research and get paid $150 for your time. </span></p>
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<p><span>To get an appt, mention Bald Girls Do Lunch as referral (I work as research outreach…</span></p>
<p><span> Chicagoland and Philadelphia "Alopecia Parents/caregivers": Your feedback needed!</span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span>Got a child 13-17 with moderate to severe AA/AT/AU or atopic dermatitis diagnosed more than a year ago?</span></p>
<p><span>Be interviewed in person July 10/11 (Philly) or July 13/14 (Chicago) for alopecia areata market research and get paid $150 for your time. </span></p>
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<p><span>To get an appt, mention Bald Girls Do Lunch as referral (I work as research outreach intern for BGDL support nonprofit) and send email to Research.Opportunity@schlesingerassociates.com or call 215.734.9496 and ask for Morgan Hassig.</span></p>
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<p></p> 13 year old daughter, losing to much hairtag:alopeciaworld.com,2013-11-11:2022678:Topic:11115842013-11-11T18:46:36.777ZNataschahttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/mom987
<p>Hello, I hope i get some helpful responses. I might be on the wrong place, if so just let me know. ;)</p>
<p>This is my daughters story: She is a beautiful smart young lady, 13 years old. Looks of course are very important at this age. Since a couple of months we noticed she is loosing more hair then normal. (since a half year she is dealing with the monthly issues).</p>
<p>Couple weeks ago we went to her pediatrician for her hair loss. you can see that lots of baby-hairs are coming back…</p>
<p>Hello, I hope i get some helpful responses. I might be on the wrong place, if so just let me know. ;)</p>
<p>This is my daughters story: She is a beautiful smart young lady, 13 years old. Looks of course are very important at this age. Since a couple of months we noticed she is loosing more hair then normal. (since a half year she is dealing with the monthly issues).</p>
<p>Couple weeks ago we went to her pediatrician for her hair loss. you can see that lots of baby-hairs are coming back in, they tested her blood on thyroid and anemia (both came back normal).</p>
<p>She eats pretty healthy, doesn't pull her hair, yes she liked her ponytails and did straighten her hair, but we stopped with that. she is loosing her hair over her whole head, not in patches. Only very stressful time she had this year was when she didn't make the athletics team at school. She stressed about that over labor day weekend. But her hair loss did start already before that.</p>
<p>Pediatrician said to watch it a little longer, come back when she keeps loosing.</p>
<p>Her hair is just now so thin, and we have daily tears here. Called the pediatrician and they scheduled an appointment in an other town. I did research on this doctor, whats not positive. (comments on the reviews are: rude, not a nice office, don't call back to patients out of town, insurance problems). I think its very important for my daughter who is stressed about this whole hair deal to be with a doctor she feels comfortable with. So i called the pediatrician back and they told me, that if i want to go somewhere else we probably end up in Dallas/Fort Worth (6 hours from here). That is not a problem. I want a good doctor to take a look at her.</p>
<p>English is my 2nd language. I hope you understand my story and feel free to give advice or make commends!</p>
<p></p> Thinning hair since age 12... 22 now and worse then evertag:alopeciaworld.com,2013-05-14:2022678:Topic:10414382013-05-14T06:29:02.947ZSar90https://alopeciaworld.com/profile/Sar90
<p>Hey all! I'm new to the website and really nervous to post on here. I've read a lot of your stories and they were all very inspiring! I was hoping to see if anyone could give me any advice or words of encouragement?</p>
<p>I started losing my hair when I was 12. Around this age I was slightly anorexic and I played many sports. I also got my period around 13 years old. In high school, I played varsity tennis and soccer and was really involved in school... typical honors student. I would get…</p>
<p>Hey all! I'm new to the website and really nervous to post on here. I've read a lot of your stories and they were all very inspiring! I was hoping to see if anyone could give me any advice or words of encouragement?</p>
<p>I started losing my hair when I was 12. Around this age I was slightly anorexic and I played many sports. I also got my period around 13 years old. In high school, I played varsity tennis and soccer and was really involved in school... typical honors student. I would get incredibly dizzy through out the day or through practices to the point where I couldn't see anything (it would just be blinding white light) and I'd feel really hot and my heart would beat so fast!! I once had an ECG done on me by paramedics at a school assembly at they discovered I had a sinus arrhythmia. My periods stopped being irregular at about age 14 as well. I would get so dizzy from standing up that I would faint at church or waiting in lines. My hair started getting so thin that you could see all my scalp. In college, the ailments continued.. I would be so tired all the time that I would lie in bed all the time. I could never concentrate in my classes or during studying. Even just getting up to get a glass of water would require so much effort and I'd get so dizzy and nauseous just standing up.</p>
<p>Over those ten years I would see so many doctors and they would always just ignore me.. because why should they listen to a teenager girl.. and blame the hair loss on stress or styling damage. They would tell me to just change my shampoo. I never styled my hair at all, I would just let it air dry. I tried a mountain of shampoos and conditioners and I never stressed.</p>
<p>Finally, this past year I forced my doctors (general, dermatologist, endocrinologist) to run more blood work because I barely have any hair left. My thyroid and hormones were all perfectly in range, but my ferritin level and vitamin D level were sub-clinically low. I'm not sure what my vitamin D level was, but my ferritin level was at 8, and because the range my general physician and endo used were from 8 to 150 they didn't even bother to tell me that it was really low! Finally my dermatologist pointed it out that it should be over 50!! She told me to start taking Feosol 65 mg once a day (I got the CVS kind) I didn't listen to her and took two a day instead and after one month my level went from 8 to 21. It's been another month now and I've been taking 3-4 Feosol 65 mg tablets a day and one of those I take with a vitamin C tablet. I'm planning on going to get tested again sometime this week, so hopefully I see a big jump.</p>
<p>The endocrinologist also told me I have sub clinical hypothyroidism...she doesn't want to put me on medication for it because she wants to hold off on it for ten years? I don't know why? I think she doesn't want me to take something I have to take every day for the rest of my life.. but hello.. I have to do that with iron now anyway...</p>
<p>SO what I don't understand is that some people think that low iron causes hypothyroidism and others believe that it is the other way around and that hypothyroidism causes low iron.... so which way is it? Does anyone know?</p>
<p>I'm really worried that because my hair loss has been going on for so long that it'll never grow back... does anyone have any experience about this?</p>
<p>And my hair falls out with the white bulbs at the end attached... if that matters? It's also in a diffuse pattern. And It is constantly itchy!! I get little pimples and scabs all over it! I use Head and shoulders for dry scalp and I think that helps.. my dermatologist gave my fluocinide to use on my scalp, but I hate using it because it is so time consuming. And everytime they go away they come back after a couple days! She told me I have folliculitis.. does that ever go away?</p>
<p>My sister has nice hair and my mom has super think hair, as do other women in my family. So I don't think it's genetics.</p>
<p>I don't know.. I'm so depressed about this... it's taking a huge toll on my confidence and relationship.</p>
<p>I'm sorry for the long post, but if anyone can please offer some advice and answer some of my questions I would really appreciate it!</p>