Hello everyone,

I'm new here and wanted to introduce myself. I'm Rick Matthews and live in Virginia. By day I'm a computer technician, and when I'm not at my normal job or with my kids, I am a volunteer firefighter.

My fight with Alopecia started in February of 2012. I was at work and my manager pointed out that I was going bald; I shook it off as if he was messing with me, but he insisted that I had a bald spot on the back of my head. Well when I got home that evening I looked…

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I think loosing my hair has been one of the worst things that has ever happened to me. At 54 and always having beautiful long healthy hair and now it's all gone in the matter of 10 weeks. I think it was the medication I was put on has anyone had this happen due to meds.

Today Maygen went to The Kids Hair Club in Dallas and basically let us know that next Christmas we will be paying $4000 for her hair systems. I had no idea it was so expensive. Maygen will also start college shortly after we start paying for the wigs. My husband and I want to provide Maygen a quality wig but also be able to pay for her college without going into financial ruin. Are there other wigs that are less expensive but up to the same level of quality?

I have a 5 year old. And she is a bully. She does have a big heart... but she picks on me about not having hair. I can take it because I am pushing 40. But there are too many kids that didn't have the blessing of growing up "normal".

I would like to bring in some people for show and tell to explain the difference to her. I live in southwest Michigan. She doesn't understand that she has alopecia too.

I just want to stop her from being the bully that she is and realize that her…

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A girl stares into her bathroom mirror and doesn't recognize the face she sees. Putting up her hood she hopes that the covering will bring back some form of recognition. Next she tries a hat followed by jewelry, make-up, a scarf. Nothing she places in the reflection can help her to give the girl in the mirror a name. Who is this girl? When did she lose the ability to recognize herself? Is that girl in the mirror really her? She watched tears slowly run the the cheeks of that girl, the one in…

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Have FPB and a very itchy scalp. A itchy scalp all day all night. The other problem I have is my hair is very greasy all the time. Please help!!! Shampoos, products, anything. I have tried so many things and nothing has changed

It's the year which so many deemed to be our last, 2012 the year the world ends. Strangely it seemed, at many points of the year, my world did end or change unthinkably. There were certainly points; specific, small little parts of 2012 that I wished the world had ended.

Like every year it began with a crash of fireworks and over rated celebrations, and despite the rumours it ended too, in a somewhat similar fashion and for me, on the complete other side of the world from where mine…

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