If anyone has any ideas or has had the same problem, I need your help! I've been using tape on my wig for 20 years now and just in the last 6mon. have become very allergic to it now. When I take off my wig every evening, the skin is bright red, itchy, and sometimes even oozing! ): I've been ordering many different tapes online, with no luck so far. Anyone with ideas? ?

I have to allow myself to be this sad for just a day or two. I been so strong since I got diagnosed with AA 5,5 months ago. But i dont want to be strong right now. I want to cry and scream and be mad.

9 months ago, i was a Beautiful bride, marrying my best friend. As happy as could be. Unfortunately, my best friend happen to be American so 1,5 year ago I also left my family and my home country Sweden to live with him. It was so hard for me the first year, but Life was finally turining…

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On Friday I have a job interview, you would think I would be nervous but I'm not well I am but not because its an interview that I'm going to get asked them dreaded interview questions and be worrying that I'm going to slip up and say the wrong things and not be successful. It's because on Friday I'm going to give this wig I've got a go.

I've had it for well over two years now and its been shoved under my bed.. Well after a while of thinking about it, I got it out and gave it some TLC…

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Things have been great since I "came out," as it were. I've shaved my head, and retired my wig. I've felt better than I have the past four years. I thought I'd be self-conscious, but the only fear I've felt was in the moments before I hit "post" on the lengthy Facebook status that would tell everyone my secret. That itself was scary enough for a lifetime, and the only way I could do it at all was to blast Frozen's "Let It Go," loudly sing along, and in the perfect adrenaline-fueled moment,…

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I was with my family at an amusement park today and while on a roller coaster my wig came off.  I was lucky enough to be able to feel it happen and hold it against my head until the ride ended, but I was so frustrated!  

I don't want to change my life because of AA.  It seems like every time I feel like I have accepted and am ok and even moving ahead something happens that shakes it all up again!  But after going to the bathroom and crying a bit I put my chin up and decided that this…

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Found yet another bald spot yesterday. This one happens to be right above my left ear. My spots are becoming larger and larger and harder to conceal. I hate being so emotional. I was diagnosed with AA but am worried it may be AT. :( My lashes and brows are starting to thin. They say don't stress, but how can I not stress!?! I've already cut my hair shorter than its ever been in my life hoping that the less strain would help it from falling out, but I'm still getting new spots. This is so…

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It has been a while since I have posted on here.  Been dealing with the hair loss in circular patches that sometimes group themselves or just singularly for 7 years.  The last couple of years rewarded me with a patch up front which prompted a severe part on the opposite side to cover it up.  That patch took a very long time to respond to injections and the hair has only grown in white.  Those white hairs accept nothing -- no hair color or henna -- ok, the henna slightly worked but the yellow…

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Living in with Alopecia has it's good and bad days. For me, it's mostly good thank God. Today and probably the last few days though, I have really been missing my hair. :( I always try to stay positive about it and normally it doesn't bother me idk what's going on.

I just feel like crying about it. I feel like complaining about it. Wigs have seemed extra itchy and hot lately. They can get expensive and I can't always afford them. I sweat in my head mainly and am outside fairly often…

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when I noticed my first bald spot about 2-3cm behind my bangs was about 2 months ago. Two months after I had my ovaries removed do to severe endomitriosis. I knew I had it because I saw a special on it on 20/20 about a few months before. My hair cutter from when I was little said yup you have it. When I went to a new dermatologist I couldn't belive her when she said it. I was in denial until my head just starting burning all the time ..now i just wear hats to dull the pain,

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So...if control over your hair (are you God?) is your beef, and control is your thing, then find control another way: via the arts, weight loss, make-over, new wardrobe, rearranged furnishings, painted walls, mastery of a garden/career/family/trip/business/education, menu, spiritual path, etc. There are SOOOOOOOOOO many choices in the world and aspects of self possible. I decided to lose 55 pounds. 45 more to go...…

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