Apologies for not getting back to you sooner but I am always really busy when I get back from holiday.
My personal story on my home page explains how long I had Alopecia Areata for and how much hair I had lost before I shaved it off. I was then diagnosed as having an under active thyroid and quickly prescribed thyroxin tablets. The actual name is Levothyroxin.
I started taking the tablets near to the end of January this year and about a month or six weeks after starting the tablets I noticed that I had slight re-growth in the patches on my head. As I had AA I had to shave my head every day or the patches were much more obvious. Even when I had shaved you could see “a map of the world” on my head due to the areas where the hair had not fallen out. If I left it a few days the patches where there was hair still growing became even more obvious and you could feel the hair growing quite a lot. After starting the tablets I started to feel small thin hairs growing in the patches that had been bald.
Despite this I continued to shave most days but late in August my wife commented that the patches on my head had disappeared and that although I was still bald due to the fact I was shaving every day, she felt that it would grow back if I just stopped shaving. She encouraged me to do this and sure enough I now have full re-growth.
All in all it was about 6 weeks for the hair to start re-growing and 7 month for the hair to have become thick and to have changed colour back to my natural colour.
LeslieAnn Butler
I have universalis, too!
Welcome. Hope you are doing okay.
LeslieAnn
Nov 3, 2008
Ray
Apologies for not getting back to you sooner but I am always really busy when I get back from holiday.
My personal story on my home page explains how long I had Alopecia Areata for and how much hair I had lost before I shaved it off. I was then diagnosed as having an under active thyroid and quickly prescribed thyroxin tablets. The actual name is Levothyroxin.
I started taking the tablets near to the end of January this year and about a month or six weeks after starting the tablets I noticed that I had slight re-growth in the patches on my head. As I had AA I had to shave my head every day or the patches were much more obvious. Even when I had shaved you could see “a map of the world” on my head due to the areas where the hair had not fallen out. If I left it a few days the patches where there was hair still growing became even more obvious and you could feel the hair growing quite a lot. After starting the tablets I started to feel small thin hairs growing in the patches that had been bald.
Despite this I continued to shave most days but late in August my wife commented that the patches on my head had disappeared and that although I was still bald due to the fact I was shaving every day, she felt that it would grow back if I just stopped shaving. She encouraged me to do this and sure enough I now have full re-growth.
All in all it was about 6 weeks for the hair to start re-growing and 7 month for the hair to have become thick and to have changed colour back to my natural colour.
I hope that this helps
Regards
Ray
Nov 6, 2008
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