I have had extremely extensive AA for the last 7 years, since I had a traumatic breakup, I had not dated anyone since, until 9 months ago, when I started seeing someone great, who accepts my alopecia and my hair system. We are keeping it "casual" but have so much fun together!! : ) Since we started seeing each other my hair has been growing back, the people at the salon I go to for my bonded-on hair system services even asked if I've been doing a new treatment to make my hair grow (I…

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Does anyone know of any alternatives when AA begins to attack your eyebrows. I know women sometimes tattoo them on or use that permanent makeup. Being a guy, I'm not sure that i could do that. I've had AA for over a year and for the most part have come to terms with it. this has set me right back to square one. I've gone back to just not leaving the house anymore and i hate it. Has anyone out there tried immune suppression? If so, what are the consequences? I hope someone will reply. I have…

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Just read an interesting article on a possible new treatment for MS. In a nutshell, it re-establishes immune tolerance to whatever protein it is trying to attack.  In the case of MS - myelin.  The beauty of it is that it apparently does not effect any other immune function.  Additionally, the technique could potentially be used for other autoimmune diseases.  Has anybody heard of this?  Here's the link, …

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My 4 year old son has AA.his hair has been falling slowly from july 2013 thru now he has lost about 40% of his hair He has patches here and their i always try to keep his head bald and he usually wears a hat but somthimes he takes it off and when we are at stores or any public place lots of people stare or whisper to one another point and just look at him like hes not normal I Hate It it makes me stress because i feel like i just wanna do so much for him and i cant relly do anything i wanna… Continue

I wanted to share my story with those struggling with their alopecia. I am currently a 16 year-old high school sophomore  and I want to tell you that there is in fact hope. In 6th grade and again in the beginning of this year, I had alopecia areata, which resulted in all of my hair being lost. I know the anguish, feelings of being ostracized, endless shame and lack of self-confidence. However, through the dermatology center at the University of California Irvine, I now have a full head of…

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Just another bald woman. Well, I'm not entirely bald, but the few straggly remnants and the white mohawk weren't doing me any good. I got up the resolve to shave it off. The cleaned up look is definitely better, but my initial reaction was just sadness, as if I really had been kidding myself for the past months that my hair would grow back and be OK. Going from a little hair to no hair felt like a big step even if it didn't look like a big one on my scalp.

When I first envisioned…

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