juliepeach

Female

philly, PA

United States

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Relationship Status:
In a Relationship
About Me:
i was ATL, GA born & raised for eighteen years before packing up and heading to philly, PA for art school. after a year and a half, i changed paths and started applying to universities to study environmental science (hopefully going to be a wildlife technician some day!)-- after much debate, i decided to stick it out in my new city instead of moving home where all of my lifelong friends & family are. my first week of my new university, i began to lose my hair. this, of course, made the first doctor i went to write it off as stress- though i was feeling very fine about everything!
soon after, the little awful round patches started to develop. i went to my dermatologist here, and she diagnosed me with AA. we did oral & topical steroids, as well as steroid shots (i'm guessing upwards of 300 total). nothing helped, and it has been over 5 months. my oral steroids were making me totally nutty, but as soon as i went off of them my hair loss got unbearable. it all came out, but luckily it's making a return.

i feel incredibly vain and petty, because i know things always could be worse. but i am now at the point where i have nooo self confidence, and have made no friends in my classes because i cannot look anyone in the eye. i am used to being popular (ugh, cannot believe i said that! ha!) with lots of diverse wonderful friends. now i feel like a mean tuff girl, since i have tattoos and what appears as a buzzed head. eeekk

EDIT FALL 2009.
so all my hair fell out by december of last year (when that info was first posted). then it all started to slowly, patchy, grow back for a few months. i actually had a full head of hair for about two months, but in the middle of the summer it all started coming out again. i am now back at 60-70% loss. what a rip.
Do you have alopecia?
Alopecia areata
Are you age 18 or older?
Yes - I am 18 or older
Your Website (Leave blank if you don't have one):
http://juliepeach.etsy.com

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  • JeffreySF

    Hi Julie,

    how are you?
    ran across your page tonight.

    Jeffrey

    Jun 11, 2009

  • Sarah

    i just read your story and i can say i know what you mean. when i went to college it was really hard for me to meet any new friends. eventually the so called "best times of our lives" got to much for me to handle. lets just say college wasent what i thought it could have been. i lost my hair for the first time when i was a senior in high school, so i thought i knew what i was getting myself into when i ventured out into the real world. i was totally unprepared and outnumbered. as a result, i stopped attending school a year and a half later. i moved home and started my life again where i left it. after 2 years my hair was almost completely regrown and i was able to get extentions. then about 6 months or so ago i started loosing again.

    now i find myself in the same situation. i have since moved to a bigger city and have yet to make any friends. im still not in school, so there is one obstacle i dont have to traverse. i just keep telling myself that everything will fall into place and get better again.

    Sep 28, 2009

  • Sarah

    im not real sure what the brand is. i bought it about 2 years ago. since then i had my old hairstylist cut it that way. it used to be super long. and the pink is just an extention.

    but if your looking for some good looking wigs check out "forever young."

    Sep 29, 2009