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endurance sports as a possible trigger?
i'm curious how many of you engage in endurance sports and whether or not you think it might be a trigger for alopecia? i'm a long-distance runner, but i my keep my training on the light side relative to other runners (<45 miles per week during peak training). i've done 3 marathons total (one each of the last three years). my family is convinced that this kind of "stress" is related to my hairloss. for time reference, my last marathon was in October 2008 (it went great, it was hard of course but it wasn't like i was about to collapse after crossing the finish line or anything) and my first bout of alopecia started the following January. However, this was the 3rd one and I would say the prior two marathons were much more difficult for my physically.
i've never heard of an association between marathoning and alopecia. has anyone else?
i've never heard of an association between marathoning and alopecia. has anyone else?
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Permalink Reply by Carol Yuen on
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haha..I guess there is no way to prove this...
To keep me physically fit, I went to the gym from May 08- November 08. I will run for 30 minutes, do pilates for 1 hour, and cardio 1 hour, and weight lifting for another 30minutes every OTHER day. I stopped excerising in November 08, and in Feburary 09 I started to lose my hair BIG time. Now I have 20% of hair of what I used to have, and is not stopping still losing my hair quickly. Now I don't exercise, how come the hair doesnt come back. So there is no real answer to this. I think everyone is different.
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Permalink Reply by Mark on
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My alopecia areata started on my neck area about 9 months after I started jogging regularly and working out regularly for the first time in my life. Who knows. The increase in exercise definitely was a huge change in my life. But I also was teaching for the first time and in a difficult relationship. :) So a lot of variables there...
I ran 9.6 miles the day before yesterday! For me that's a marathon. :) I usually don't run near that far.
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Permalink Reply by Karen Froehner on
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Ah "No"! Are you kidding to do what you do you have got to be healthly! There is no known reason why it occurs. I had beautiful long thick hair until my last baby. 2 years later clumps began to drop out. In 6 years I had nothing.
So, don't give up your sport. You run your heart out and go bald baby go bald!
Imagine the aerodynamics involved not having the hair could add to your speed!
Good Luck,
Karen
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Permalink Reply by Jackie on
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Right before I lost my hair I was an award-winning sprinter and freshman gymnast...maybe there is something to that, but then --- probably not.
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Permalink Reply by Paula on
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thanks for all the responses. i plan to continue my running. keeps me sane. i guess i'll do a little experiment and see if my hair falls out again after my next marathon. :)
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Permalink Reply by Sam Reid on
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I've wondered this as well! I first started loosing my hair 3 months after finishing my first marathon. During the marathon I really ran myself into the ground and I've thought before that perhaps that sort of assault on the body might have been the trigger for the hair loss...
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Permalink Reply by Robert on
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This is an interesting topic to me as the main thing that had really changed in my life in the months prior to me developing a bald patch in my beard was that I started doing regular exercise (probably for the first time in my life).
I can't compare it to an endurance sport but I started doing at least 1 hour of Wii-fit each day and going for walks every day. I get up early to do the Wiifit as it's best if I get it done first thing in the morning (otherwise I won't do it) and lost 24lbs in the 4-5 months before I first noticed the small bald spot in my beard.
I have lost a further 20 lbs in the last 9 months and the bald spot in my beard is still expanding, a patch has developed on the back of my head (still growing!) and recently a patch on the top of my head has appeared and seems to have been the quickest growing of all of the spots so far - much to my horror!
It's all complete guess-work, I know, but I did wonder if there was a connection between exercise/weight loss to developing hair loss.
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Permalink Reply by Zachery Brown on
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weird. I do a sport called flatland BMX if anyone has heard of it, it is a fairly unknown sport and shocking to see if you've never seen someone do it, but it is definitely an endurance sport. It involves endless hours of balance repetition and endurance to learn and do. this spring i got really serious about it and started practicing 2-3 hours a day. this may, one year since i got into the sport i noticed a bald spot on my facial hair, now there are about 6 or seven spots all forming all in different spots on my lower beard and i was just diagnosed with alopecia 4 days ago. some of my friends wondered if the amount of time i spend practicing had anything to do with the hair loss, so its weird that you said that. either way the sport is much more important to me than my hair. If anyone is curious about the sport a couple minutes of this video will explain it lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itb06on2mHg&feature=channel_page
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Permalink Reply by Brandy Snap on
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I've never run any marathons or been that into sports and my hair came out. My mother liked to blame it on me colouring my hair, but I retaliated with; "then why do children get alopecia?"
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Permalink Reply by Tuesday on
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I guess everyone is different but ... I exercised for hours each day, trained for marathon and during the training, I strangely put on 25 pounds of fat. Then my alopecia started and shortly after the marathon, I was AU. My feet have since developed terr osteoarthritis. It took a good 6 years to get that extra weight off. my feet are so disabled, I cant run or even walk normally. Everyone is different but for me, I believe my body's immune system perceived myintense fitness as stress.
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Permalink Reply by Parimatch on
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Hey, every case is individual, and you should feel and understand what is right for you. I'm a football player so I know what exercises are for me. I would be glad to share with .https://parimatch.co.tz/ - here you can read everything about sport world
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