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Releasing Toxins

I'm REALLY trying to be positive!! I REALLY want to move forward!! I know I am more than my hair!! I HAVE done this before!! I WILL do it again!! I just need to get all this SHIT out!! I'm not sure how to make a LONG story short!! But I'll try.



In March 2007 I started to lose my hair. By August I had lost SO much I HAD to buy a wig. In the meantime I had seen SIX different doctors!! Each had their own opinion, each ran tests ... NOTHING was working!! However when my OB/GYN put me on… Continue

Added by Celeste Edwards on October 2, 2008 at 5:29pm — 2 Comments

discovering me

ok, this is my first day on this site. for the last couple of months i have lost my hair and my entire identity. how can that be? i am a really strong and indenpendant person, so why do i feel like my identity is gone? now i feel really shallow. i have been reading the different groups and reading about my new friends struggles and everyone seems so put together and comfortable with what we are going through. i feel like i am in a dark hole and can't get out. the whole wig experience was a… Continue

Added by Jenn on October 2, 2008 at 4:34pm — 3 Comments

Doctor

I went to my doctor the other day for just a routine check up. It was my first time seeing her and I mainly went just so I would have a primary doctor if/when I do get sick (I don't trust the doctors at my university). Anyways, I don't wear a wig so she obviously knew I didn't have hair. She is familiar with alopecia so wasn't surprised when I said I had it. I told her it fell out about 5 years ago and within about 3 weeks. She kept asking me if I was happy living with no hair. I said yes,… Continue

Added by Kristen Ridenhour on October 1, 2008 at 11:18pm — 3 Comments

Well after not being able to hide my bald spots anymore, I have scheduled an appt for a wig fitting...so soon enough I will be sporting a new look! My biggest fear is the questions and reations I wil…

Well after not being able to hide my bald spots anymore, I have scheduled an appt for a wig fitting...so soon enough I will be sporting a new look! My biggest fear is the questions and reations I will receive when I go back to work, should I tell them it's a wig because of alopecia or just play along as if it was my hair? Continue

Added by Esther on October 1, 2008 at 8:12pm — No Comments

More squaric acid

Yesterday I went to the derm. for my usual....Still have one bare patch near my forehead that did not respond to the last round of squaric acid. So, yesterday I got some injections and more squaric acid applied. Yup, it's already itchy....except this time I have the prescription strength clobetasol propionate gel....so I don't scratch the stuffings out of myself this time.



My other patches are growing in with their usual whitish hairs.....it's only a matter of time again when another… Continue

Added by Georgie on October 1, 2008 at 2:18pm — No Comments

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