Hey Dominique good to see a fellow Aussie here, I live in Blackall im about 10 hours away from Brissy

Hi Dominique,

I wanted to welcome you to Alopecia World and look forward to getting to know you.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Cheryl

G'day Dominique, and welcome!!! I am glad to meet you and hope to get to know you better!!!

hey DOM - fantastic to see you - now you need to go and join the Australian Group so you can meet all the other Aussies that are signing up!!! I am really enjoying this webiste I hope you will too

I am going to organise a meeting really soon I promise!!!

I am working weekends now so it's a bit difficult but I will I promise!!!

ANGELA

Welcome.

hi dominique im also in brisbane...my first day on this site also.. having heaps of fun with it.... hope to see you at the next meeting!

Hello - I briefly met you last year at a meeting. I was a scare-dy cat and left early. I live in Brisbane too!

I wanted to welcome to Alopecia World. I can honestly say that we are a great community here and I hope you enjoy the time you spend with us.

Cheryl
co-founder

would love to see your wig - next meeting!!!!

I note that you are a single girl???? no fella on the scene?

ANGE

hey there, (just joined up, saw you're online) keep up the good work. I've always hated that hurry up and wait model.

Hey Dominique! Its very interesting that you have a twin, one of you with hair, one without, how cool! At least the two of you will never be confused!

and hello back i try and be as active as i can witch is easy right now since im home for 2 weeks. i love this site its exiteing to meet and talk with others who have AA,AU,AT and just other people in gen from all over. really exi about confrence in june.

yea i can imagine. i just want to run around rubbing every ones head cuz every one allways does it to me.

so what do you do for a living?

Hey Dominique....I just read your reply on Signe's forum question about passing along aa to her baby. I just wanted to tell you I totally agree about the trigger thing. I've got aa, hashimoto's thyroiditis, excema and rheumatoid arthritis. Nothing came out until I was in college. No one in my family -- and I mean no one (I've gone back generations) - had anything like what I've got. I think my family all carried this gene and it just took a trigger to set it off. I had that trigger and the rest of my family, thank goodness, did not. My doctor seems to think it was an infection or injury that happened to me in college...but that was 15 years ago and I cant' remember that far back. Hell, I can barely remember what I ate for breakfast yesterday!!!! Take care....Daria

Just happened upon your page. Love your perspective!

Hi Dominique - you have a great picture (the one seated looking down). When I shave my head I might have to copy the idea. I have a photographer friend that is counting down the days until I shave so he can start taking pics. :-)

Hi Dominique, fellow aussie! My name's Liesl and I'm from Wollongong. That is a gorgeous picture.

Hi.

Hows life back in Australia?

Roger.

Hi! I'ts nice to meet you! Yeah i'm getting there with the whole hair loss thing. I try and stay positive if not for me, my boyfriend. He's such a softy. Another aussie, yay! That photo is gorgeous. You're a brissy girl are you? Must be happy about the state of origin then. I was so cranky haha. Bloody QLD lol. How you been? Liesl xx

Your reply to kaykeyn was so touching, I admire your positive outlook on what it's like living with alopecia. I have yet to reach that point.

Hi Dominique, thanks for the add. Great photos, especially the one in the dress from above!

thx. and he did answer. hes still me fren. and idk if i could just bring it up if i wanted to. austin like told the whole school. hes an ass.

Hi Dominique,

I think getting a Freedom wig was definitely the best solution for me. My first wig was synthetic and I found that very hot and the hair kept getting matted - not nice. The next wig I had was a human hair but obviously very processed hair because it tended to mat as well. My Freedom wig can be a little hot - I sweat a bit under the cap on hot days but if I have the hair up off my neck in a ponytail it's not unbearable. After all, on 30+ degree days, my own hair used to feel hot as well!

I find it very comfortable, it did feel a little weird at first but it didn't take that long to get used to it. Another thing that I had to get used to is getting it in the right place when you put it on. When I first got it, it would take me 3 or 4 tries to get it on right.

It definitely won't come off at the wrong moment - I've been swimming with it on (although I prefer to swim bald or in a bandana because the hair gets quite heavy when wet) and I've been on a 'slingshot' ride wearing it (where you get flung way up in the air & turn upside down etc.)

I can't think of anything else to tell you at the moment, but if you have anymore questions at all, I'd be only too happy to answer them.

I love my hair colour too! It's so close to what my own hair was. Funny to think that growing up, I didn't like my red hair and now when getting wigs, I won't settle for anything but red! I just don't look right any other colour.

Karina.

Yeah, looking younger really isn't all that bad. In many ways, I'm a late starter at this "life" thing, so being able to pass for someone younger is a real advantage. :)

I'm really tired of being carded at bars, though. :P

Hi,

I have been reading your page for the past few months and have wanted to message you to ask a few questions. If you read my page you would see that I have a daughter who is turning five in three weeks and she has alopecia. She is now in the shedding phase and what will happen....who knows...

I have come to terms with the fact that she may have to live with this for the rest of her life and now I am pretty much OK. I still have my days but on the most part, I am content.

What I am concern is the school matters and what would it be like for her when I am not around. I feel like you would be the perfect person to ask since you have grown up with this condition and have bloomed into a beautiful woman.

Was it hard for you? How did you deal with the issues (especially the teen years)? What about wigs? Were you bullied? Did your parents talk to the school about your condition? Did you go to a private or public school? Was it easy for you to make friends? I guess you would now what I am leaning towards. I really want to know firsthand what it may be like so that I can help her steer her life through it.

Any guidance from you will be worth more than money.


Karen

Di Dominique,

Thanks for thr reply. I am looking forward to reading your advice.

Karen

dominique, heres a link to a book and the thing about twins
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=shP_ZfPRrUkC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=alopecia+twins&source=web&ots=61rrO6bf7G&sig=C_t9P7RGNmID3UaVwYv4IV0BdUM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

Dom!! Hi there stranger! Gareth and I are back in the USA and we have a baby daughter. I've missed seeing you, Angela and the others back in Brisbane so it was such a nice surprise to find you here. How are you doing? How is your mum? I hope everyone is well! Lots of love, Courtney