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Female pattern hair loss
I don't notice many female pattern hair loss ladies here. Just for the heck of it, may i see a "show of hands?"
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Permalink Reply by LilyBell*Murphy'sLawLuvsMe on
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I have chronic TE and FPB - the Rogaine 5% twice a day has helped me some and I take Biotin also which has also helped with the TE - have you tried anything? Any success? No matter what the cause of hair loss it still sux : ( .
In a way, a very strange way - sometimes I think - if I had AA there might be a chance it would grow back - but with FPB there is NO way it will grow back. I know that 'logic' is twisted at best.
Mostly I just try not to think about it at all.
Don't get me wrong - I am in no way thinking those with AA 'are lucky' - as I said this all sux.
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Permalink Reply by Nancy King on
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Lily, what is TE? I use Rogaine on my own, like i did 'back in the day' so hopefully i won't lose any more than i already have. I have read about the 5%, but i think that requires a prescription, doesn't it? I need to get to a dermatologist anyway.
And Lily, i understand how you feel thinking about Alopecia Areata vs FPB, and our hair is never going to grow back. I struggle with those thoughts too. And i don't wish for AA or think they're lucky or anything. I think our minds are programmed to consider every possibility, that's all. So, don't feel bad.
Rose, i didn't think there were very many of us on this site (or any other for that matter). I wonder if others are like me and just sort of feel like they don't qualify somehow to be here. I only heard the term Alopecia Androgenica this year. For a long time, i thought i didn't belong here because i hadn't gone totally bald. Thanks for the numbers. I wish there were more with FPB. I think it's a slightly different experience.
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Permalink Reply by Cindie on
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There is a huge round smooth bald spot in the top of my head, and two of about the same size on each side of my head.....not sure that it qualifies, but it sure looks like it to me.
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Permalink Reply by Christy Ingram on
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Raising both of mine too. I am done with treatment, drugs and supplements! I have severe AGA or FPB ~ I made the "mistake" of shaving (went to a Baseball game the day before) my head a day before my last Derm appointment so now I have to wait until February and have about a weeks worth of shadow for her to be able to tell me how much more hair I've lost. My loss is so diffuse that I really only have a very thin strip along the very front and down to side/burns that grows a somewhat close to normal amount of hair.
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Christy, My derm has (well had me - I stopped as it was driving me crazy) collect all my hairs that come out in a 24 hour period - she had me do this once a week for two months then once a month. Every hair in the brush or on your clothes is to be counted and the number recorded. She says this is the only way to tell if the shed is slowing down. I have TE and FBP - I think this was more for the TE. Anyways it was simply depressing and caused me to obsess. My TE is better -the shed less but the FBP of course will never get better. Has your derm ruled out diffuse AA? I saw your pics with the close cropped hair - it actually looks like you have a good amount of hair left. Have you ever considered going light blond? I see some ladies have done that with the close crop and it looks really good and seems to 'disguise' the thinning.
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I really need to update my pictures! I keep saying I'll get around to it, but haven't. Those are a year old. I have lost quite a bit more. I did try to let it grow some last spring and hoped to try for a pixie or bob type cut, but it was just a short stringy looking mess and still too much of my scalp was visible. I find it really embarrassing. The Wig salon my Derm recommended me to go to last summer for a Topper or Fall said I didn't have enough of my own to attach any kind of hair piece. I used to get highlights for a few years hoping it would help "hide/mask" the thinning some and finally decided it wasn't worth paying full price for a service that required less than 1/2 the usual time to section, paint the chemical on and foil wrap the small amount I had left. I rather put it towards wigs.
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don't know what i'd look like as a blonde. but the last hairdresser i went to said she wouldn't risk it because my hair is so fine.
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Permalink Reply by Sanfra22 on
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I don't know if I have FPB. Currently I have Telogen Effluvium and the derm. thinks that some hormonal treatments that I took kicked off and accelerated the process of what she calls "genetic hair loss." I interpret that to mean that the hormones whacked my system out of alignment, similar to what would happen in menopause. I am 35 yo and every day I find dozens of hairs...on the ground, a big clump in the drain, and it is literally driving me crazy. I can't tell you how many times I've bawled after washing my hair.
Other people seem to pooh pooh this, as in "it doesn't look so bad," or "It will all grow back," but even the doctor said that whatever hair growth I may eventually have, it will not return to "how it was."
The hair loss on a daily basis for the past several months has been unbearable. In some strange way I kind of wish I would just wake up bald, and have to deal with it square in the face, rather than the slow and agonizing drip drip drip of having to sweep away hairs every day. Of course I don't mean that, but I think you can at least understand the emotion.
I am thinking of getting a wig topper so that at least I feel that I can cover my widening part. At 35, I am still young enough and vain enough for it to bother me. I don't have the inner strength to overcome that vanity. I kick myself for ever trusting a doctor with my hormones.
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I too often wish I could wake up and what little I have left would be gone, since it doesn't appear like I am am going to have regrowth, in fact it seems to be getting worse. I already know what I look like bald because I shave every week or so and wouldn't have to fuss with that anymore. Where I have the "most" growth is at the front and sideburn/hairline, where I have to hide any "shadow hairs"
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Permalink Reply by Ktownnana on
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I think I really have FPB, but the lady who sold me my wigs called it alopecia. I am currently taking biotin and have been since late April-early May, but have seen no improvement. I have actually seen biotin work for a lady who owns a wig salon, but she said it took 8 months. I'm gonna take it until December and if I don't see any improvement, I'm gonna discontinue. The odd thing about my FPB is that it is really thick in the back. I have to shave my hair because a wig is so hard to stay on because of the thickness in the back. Go figure!
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Trisha, so glad that you have enough hair that you can rock a topper. Please don't do like I did--I waited waaay too long to purchase a wig. I tried covering it up with concealers, etc., but it seemed like every time I was talking to someone they were looking at my scalp instead of my face. It was just time to do something. I just don't want you to get to that point and I'm hoping you never do. I just wish someone had given me that advice.
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