" I work at a grocery store and people think because I have no hair, I have cancer. I've also heard the response "Oh. You're one of them" response to which I calmly replied "Alopecia is a disease too." She was…"
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- Hello out there fellow Alopecians! I am so glad to see there is a wonderful site like this because I have felt until now that I was alone in this.
When I was 18 years old, I started losing my hair and had one patch of baldness. I went to a dermatologist and they diagnosed me with Alopecia so they started giving me shots of steroids to help make the hair grow back. I was not a fan of this because it would give me headaches and it wasn't really working.
I continued to have more patches of baldness and a year later, was diagnosed with Alopecia Areata, the second stage. I kept getting steroid shots, but now for very much longer. Instead, I was told by a woman named Audrey in Massachusetts who owned a wig shop that a home remedy of vinegar and water would produce more results than the steroids had. So I tried that and within 3 days, I was seeing hair growth! It had taken 3 weeks for the hair to start coming back while on the steroids! I was amazed!
Unfortunately, even with the vinegar and water, I woke up one year during my senior year of college to find all of my hair was gone as well as my eyebrows and eyelashes!
Naturally, I freaked out because my hair wasn't in my brush or on my pillow or even in the shower-it was just gone! At 23 years old, I looked in the mirror and felt ugly so I started to bawl my eyes out. It was a hard thing to embrace and I went to another dermatologist where they told me I was at the third stage, Alopecia Universalis.
I am so glad that it is very rare for one to progress to the fourth and final stage, but it still remains hard at times for me, as I am sure, no matter what age, you all feel moments of self-consciousness as well.
I say stay strong because we may not be terminally ill, but we still deal with the hair loss that makes most of us women or even guys who have this feel like we are not pretty or handsome. We are just as good looking as everyone else out there and if people can't accept who we are, they have no business being in our lives!
I am now 38 years old and a single Mother of 9 year old twins who love me just the way I am and think it funny when I wear a wig.
Their love and the support of family, best friends, and God are what help me get by every day!
- Do you have alopecia?
- Alopecia universalis
- Are you age 18 or older?
- Yes - I am 18 or older
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- At 11:09pm on January 3, 2011,
LeslieAnn Butler said…
- Hello and welcome, Danielle!
How are you today? I have universalis, too.
Leslie Ann
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