Anyways long story short AU since 96. So I've been through a whole lot. I found myself to be a strong person and AU has never really stopped me, the people I've met here tells me they wish they had my spirit.

Feel free to message me I do check this quite often.

 Remember you are not alone!

I have suffered from Alopecia since I was about 9 years old. It hasn't been easy for me. I am 35 years old and still am not comfortable with my appearance.

Well, I am currently being treated for Rheumatoid arthritis. My current medications are Plaquenil 200mg twice a day and Neurontin 300mg three times a day(For nerve pain). I've been taking medication for about 3 months. As per web MD, "Plaquenil is used, usually with other medications, to treat certain auto-immune diseases (Lupus,…

Been going through a lot of emotions lately, with myself and the others around me. Comin' up on 7 years in the fall. Man, I hate saying that. Just so tired of saying that, tired of myself and the efforts I feel like I must put forth just to feel pretty, natural and comfortable with myself around other people. I've been so tired of my hair, my locks of love wig piece. I've seriously had the same hair style for my entire high school career. Feeling so deprived and degraded a bit. I just don't…

Seven years ago I finished chemotherapy for breast cancer. I waited for my hair to grow back, waited some more and then some.

To my horror and disbelief I realised I was waiting in vain. I spent the next 7 years trying to discover the truth, why my world had been turned upside down. Actually not only my life but that of my family too. I finally discovered I have become part of a dirty little secret of the drug Taxotere.

By now I was desperate for closure on this nightmare so I…

What are you going to do to celebrate International Alopecia Day this year?

Be a part of the fun as people all around the world celebrate and raise awareness.  Wherever you live, plan a party, an event, or just take a photo of your beautiful self on the first Saturday in August - August 2, 2014.  

Last year we had over 105 people from 22 countries - will your hometown be represented in the annual YouTube video?

Here's all you need to know:…

I"m just a little late on this post but it's now year number seven. Going on eight.

How time goes by so quickly. It seems like it was just yesterday when my alopecia came into my life. 

So tough those first few years. 

It gets easier day by day. Year by year.

Hugs to all,

Jeff

Peace!

I believe that Alopecia can kill us on the inside and leave us a physical shell with a defeated spirit. It almost did that to me. We MUST nurture and pamper our emotional selves (well, too much pampering is bad of course, but go easy on yourself for at least three years) during the transition from possessing hair (and, no, I don't mean owning a wig lol) to not anymore - of course, that is, if we don't come up with a no-side-effects cure - which would be totally kick ass. Then, being bald…

I, myself, have just no time to spare,
To fret, mope, or worry over hair.
But WHY are some compelled to stare? -
It's JUST a scalp! So what, it's bare?

- Laura Adams 6-8-14

The year was 1995
I had long hair;
I felt alive.
The hair was lost-
I ceased to thrive.
To accept the loss
First failed but strived.
And in the end 
Well, I survived!

I feel like I shouldn't be here. But I don't have any other people to talk to well I have friends but I don't feel that I can talk to them because they have the one thing I want more then anything in the world and wouldn't understand the way I feel about my appearance as they don't have the same problem as I do. I haven't been told I have alopica or any form of Hairloss because I haven't been to the doctors. I don't want to go because if I do have anything like that then that's me 'Natasha…

Hello! My name is Bunty. I'm 32 year old male from India and I've had AU for the last 3 years. It's very hard to go on wihout hair. We don't have any kind of support or organization here, so that I'm feeling so alone here.

Thanks. Bunty

The University of Phoenix 

announces that

Yo'Kasta Montonique Martinez

is a candidate for the degree of 

Master of Business Administration

Project Management

for the Commencement Ceremonies on Sunday,

the twenty-seventh day of July,

at three o'clock in the afternoon

Two thousand fourteen

Bridgestone Arena

Nashville, Tenessee

In January 2014, Foxsports.com reported:

"If you got it, flaunt it. But not when it comes to long hair for NFL coaches, apparently.

"According to ESPN's Chris Mortensen, Saints defensive coordinator Rob Ryan will have to cut his long locks before being considered for a head coaching gig in the NFL.

"After 'mistakenly'…

I'm awake at silly o'clock again and while awake I ended up taking a couple of selfies of my wigless face.

I'm never brave enough to face the world wigless, well brave maybe not the right word, I don't think people are weak to choose to wear a wig I'm just personally like to blend in rather than stand out.

But anyhow it was something about the bad lighting that made me like these photos almost making the hair loss artistic.

But I was still convinced my hair loss makes me…

Okay, so most of you are familiar with my "alopecia story". The whole having AU since I was a youngster, getting my first Locks of Love hairpiece when I was in 4th grade, and now I'm trying to deal with alopecia in a positive way to keep myself from drowning in those terrible emotions that comes with having this disease. But I've never really spoken about my past experiences with cruel little children, and the typical harshness of having alopecia at such a young age. It was quite an…