Hello Everybody! I’m a 23year old Female. So I was diagnosed with Alopecia Areata in September, a day before I left again for college. I had gone through a horrible break up just 2 days before and the whole two months of summer break I ate like crap and drank very less water, I think this might have triggered it. Initially there were just 2 really small spots, but 2 weeks later on my birthday I found a third spot at the base of head towards my neck and one of the original spots had progressed. I went to the derm and I was prescribed with topical tacrolimus 2 times a day and minoxidil 5%. Today both of my original spots have completely filled in with long thick hair, and I’m down to using tacrolimus to only one time a day on them. The third spot has reduced half in size and filled in around the edges, the middle is yet to fill in. I also have new hair growing out well in my front hairline and I have facial hair for the first time, long lashes, thick eyebrows and basically lot of hair everywhere on my body now. I think this is probably the minoxidil’s effect. I cut out dairy and eggs when I did an allergy test and realized I’m allergic to them. I started having viviscal and biotin around in November. Although my shedding has decreased, I still lose 20-30 hair strands in a day whenever I comb it. Does anyone know when the shedding might stop? It just disheartens me when I realize that every month my hair pony just seems to be getting thinner and thinner. I used to have fairly thick wavy hair and last summer I had it upto waist length, it was the first time in my life that  I grew it out that long. This past 6 months have been brutal, not only in losing my hair, but every other aspect of my life too. I got depressed, suicidal, almost got to the point of self harming and I had terrible anxiety attacks and nausea all throughout till November. Everytime I feel positive and think its just hair and move past it, the next day when I comb my hair I suddenly see more shedding than usual and my panic and anxiety comes rushing back.