Carrie

Female

Conn.

United States

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Relationship Status:

Single

About Me:

I had Alopecia Areata as a kid. I had very long, thick hair. I was on the swim team. Well my hair would get very knotted having it up in a cap and my mom or dad wold comb out the snarls every night. My mom found my fisrt patch. I started seeing a dermatolist who perscribed a gell that worked great. My hair grew back and no one really new except my family.

20 years later it came back. Over the past few years I got a few small random patches and steroid injections have been working. However recently things seem to have really progressed. My small patch has gotten bigger and bigger. I was scheduled to go in for the shots and decided I should check for any new patches. Well I found 6 small patches. I am terrified that they will progress like the other one and I will no longer be able to hide it.

In the same sense that I am afraid of loosing my hair, I also feel validated because for months I had been finding loose hairs everywhere. But whenever I would mention it to friends or family they would say "oh that's normal you should see how much hair I pull out of the drain" Deep down I knew that this was not normal for me. I am not just paranoid this is really happening.

Because I am still at a stage that people really would never know unless I tell them, I decided that now is the time to reach out to others who have experienced this and prepare myself for what may come.

Are you age 18 or older?

Yes

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