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The fall out!
Recently, well, since i've joined this site, I've been thinking about what it was like when my hair started to fall. It was probably the most traumatic experience of my life. During the fall, I did everything I could to cover it, to maintain my sense of the person (what I looked like in the mirror). After it had left over a 3 month period, I began wearing wigs and hiding. Some would say "coping" with life. I call it denial and fear.
It wasn't until years later that I gave up and surrendered. I came to acceptance of myself, and I took a stand.
I would like to know what it was like for you? What's changed now if it happened years ago?
Today I am at a comfortable place wearing hats, bandannas and scarfs. I feel less uncomfortable in places like the pool. It's still there, I still feel different, and it's difficult to let go of the fact that people are staring at me.
I hope that maybe if we can share this on here, maybe we can help eachother grow together.
Silkhead - Devan
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Permalink Reply by Karen Smith on
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It was the most traumatic 2 weeks of mine and my daughter's life. She lost almost all of her waist length hair in 2 weeks time her senior year in highschool. There was hair everywhere. We were stunned but she got up every morning and went to school. We got her in a partial week half way into week 2. She has had partial regrowth a couple of times but she says she will just shave if it ever happens again. Too traumatic to deal with the loss.
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Permalink Reply by Rosemary Janeiro on
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I started getting spots when I was 13yr. They would just grow back on their own and were in areas where I could hide them well. Then after my second daughter was born more than 10yrs later, it happened again. This time, it was more and needed injections of cortisone. Then about 4yrs later during a really tough time in my life, it started again and after over a year of being a human pin cushion with the injections, I decided to stop and accept that this was going to happen whether I liked it or not and I needed to be ok with it for the sake of my children and my own sanity. Within 3months, I was totally hairless and here I am almost a yr later, still nothing, but loving myself more and more each day. My children are coping much better, but I know they would love to make mom look like she once did. Thats probably the hardest part for me. Not the battle of my own identity crisis, but the one my kids and parents also have to struggle with and the unknowns behind it all. But I have to say, the more comfortable I am with myself, the better my girls are about it too. I don't take being a role model lightly, especially for my own children :)
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The fallout came just when I thought that changing your life was the key to solve the AA... strange isn't it? In some month even less I lost almos every hairs at 26 y.o.... one evening I bought a trimmer and I shaved them all to skin.
Many bad things came in all these years and someway I try to understand what's the point of all it. I don't say that alopecia is the most difficult thing happened so I am reconsidering everything happened to my life and sort of worked it out to understand what really matters in life. And hairs are not that important now as 29.
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