Hello and welcome, Stephanie,
I'm sorry you are having a hard time.
Let me know if I can be of help.
LeslieAnn

hi stephanie iam also from ga.lyons ,alittle town near vidalia.i have aseven year old daughter with alopecia.yes it is very scarry and she handles it better than i do.she had lost about 95& of her hair and it started to come back but yesterday i found a long piece that i had came out.so i guess we are going to have to go through the same thing again.i don t think i could of handled this if it had not been for me finding out about alopecia world.you can get alot of support from this and the members .i had the pleasure of having sandy rusk and sara gomez to talk to which helped my family alot so just hang in there. brandy googe

Stephanie, I feel your pain! I got my alopecia early in life, but used a half-wig called a "fall" in the '60s to wear and pulled my own front hair over it to clip in back, so it still looked like my hair was growing out of my own head. Then, the spots came at the hairline and there was nothing more to do but to buy wigs. Now, after a month with a new wig, I get used to it . I am from the generation that liked to see hair on women, so I go for the coolest wigs, even two- or three-tone, that I can find. Beats what my own natural hair looks like...even when I HAD hair! I try them on in shops rather than order online, so I can get a wig with the softest mesh and elastic.

But you have options of cute Turkish scarves if you want to look more exotic than those tight-fitting bald-giveaway little turbans advertised for hair loss...or a cloth brimmed hat over a cotton scarve (silk can slide off). Write back if you want to talk.