Hey everyone

Its amazing to see such support website after searching for many many months information on the web that i accidently stumble upon this amazing site!

As mentioned above i am new to the site but not new to AA. I am 25 years old and i have Alopecia for over a year now.

My story is wierd and good i think? i am not sure since iam still in the process :)

So here it goes, i first experienced AA A little over a year ago. One day at my girlfriends house she noticed a small coin size bald spot at the back of my head slightly above the neck, i being the typical guy freaked out that i am going bald( we all know guys secretly care about their hair ) So i scheduled an appointment with a Dermatologist..3 months later my appointment due date arrived and by the time i had another small spot at the back of my head close to the original and also one right near the forehead, thankfully i was able to hide those spots by pulling my hair over them, i had long hair that time. Unfortunately my left eyebrow started to fall off, it happened right at the middle of the eyebrow. The dermatologist said not to be afraid that its alopecia and it occurs due to stress( hes words), i of course stressed, He might have been right about that during that time i was really stressed out from work and i was stressing about finishing my degree in Business Managment which i was planing to relocate to the republic of georgia to finish(Tbilisi), so of course i was stressing..work..relocation to a new country ect..
So the dermatologist prescribed a ointment called Dermovate for the bald spots and told me to use them twice a day, which i did daily for a few months. He also injected something into my eyebrow, i am not sure but i do believe it was some sort of a steroid. The story unravels as such... The hair patches which i lost have completely regrown! Hurrayy!! but the eyebrows totally fell off..i look like i am undergoing chemo or something, i have the''sick'' look like many here described. So almost a year passed without me doing anything and hoping for a natural regrowth, i was at the edge of geting eyebrows tattooed.But one day my mom insists we go to a dermatologist here in the republic of georgia, so we went.. the lady was nice she prescribed some vitamins to swallow and told me to go and do bloodworks and what not.. it turns out that i have a slightly small thyroid gland. The endocrinolog prescribed me some Iodine and another medicne and told me as long as u drink that within a month or two itll pass like it was nothing so i am still drinking those pills. I also took the dermatologists advice and went to a hair clinic to get another eyebrow''shot''.

Here is where its gets interesting.. i think its working!!! i can see a couple of strands of long black hairs coming at the ends and beginings of the eyebrow they are small in number maybe like 5-6 hairs on each eyebrow.. BUT when i look really really close i can see alot of small tiny white hairs coming out .. my once white and smooth as a babys butt naked eyebrows became rought to the touch and u can actually see alot of dark spots like hair roots. that was my 1st shot 7 days ago and i am due for my next shot this friday.. but i am so excited and thrilled, can it be true and i am one of the lucky ones and my eyebrows will grow back?? i sure as hell hope so, i am supposed to go to South Korea seoul in 2 months for 3 years. I won a prestegious scholarship for a full financed MBA study at one of the best Universities in the world.. can i be finally normal again like everyone else and have a full set of eyebrows? I SURE hope so!!

This is my story thus far.. if anyone went through a similar process and can tell me what those small white hairs mean and if i can see alot of tiny black dots.. is it a good or bad sigh?? Thanks for any and all information!

PS.
I sure as hell would like to know what was in that special coctail that clinic injected me with.. its awesome!