May 14th, 2012 at 28 I found my first patch of hair missing. Two weeks later, I made the difficult decision to shave my head with the support of a wonderful friend and my boyfriend. At the end of February, 2013, I was lucky to have my hair starting to grow back - I even could make a small mohawk!

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Monday, I noticed a patch missing again, along with some thinning.…

Paint me a picture,

Of what life should be,

A world where it's people don't judge what they see.

Your hair is all gone,

It's alien—it's strange,

You find that your world has started to change.

Why is the question,

You keep in your mind,

Where are the answers you struggle to find.

A while it will take,

To accept this is you,

To challenge yourself in all that is new.

Two eyes and a nose,

A mouth and ears too,…

I feel the need to post a note about the Follea Lifestyle Wig I just bought for my 14 yr old daughter. It is a little pricey but worth every cent, in my opinion. If you want quality and the best you have to pay for it. This wig is absolutely amazing! The hair is European human hair and is very soft, beautiful and manageable and the parting is 99.9% lifelike! She can put it in a pony tail, a bun for ballet class, french braids etc. My daughter managed to hide her AA up to the very last moment…

Hey everyone! I've had alopecia for about 10 years and have tried every thing... literally everything. I've done laser, creams, injections, shampoos, but nothing really seemed to help me. My hair fell out almost like the seasons my dad always says. The spring and summer my hair always grew in and in the winter and fall alot of my hair fell out. So, I've been using squaric acid. The acid isn't FDA approved yet, but me and my dermotolgist said its worth a shot. So between 4-5 months mostly all…

So like most people on this site I have also lost my hair and feel really self conscious about it. The icing on the cake is that I have been away from my fiance since September of last year. He hasn't seen much of me since I've been completely bald. He has seen maybe one or two pictures. I keep my beanie or scarf on while we Skype or FaceTime. So the other day while we were Skyping, without thinking of it, I moved my beanie a little to scratch my head. When I realized what I had done, I felt…

Hey guys,

I'm really considering getting these vitamins i've read a few comments of how t was helping a couple of you and some it wasn't on here but it was hard to find all the comments about it. I know about that 10 year old girl who had success with it. I have AA and i'm woundering if any of you has had success with it or not?

Also if any males have tried this?

Thanks a lot!

Hello again, I have been weaaring hats to school since I was in first grade and now I am in sixth grade. Anyway yesterday I had an hat on and this boy who is in the same grade as me walks up to me and says "No hats in school." Then I just looked at him for a few seconds and then said "Do you really want to go ther?" This just shows how used to my alopecia people at my school are like a few months ago my friend had her hair done really cute and she said to me "I can do it to your hair…

I have had Aloepecia since I was 11-12yrs old, just before starting highschool (how many of you can guess how much I enjoyed highschool?)

Anyways, I've never had regrowth to the point I dont feel the need of

wearing my wigs anymore, I have woren Lcae wigs starting around the age of 15 yrs old.

I feel that because of my age of when it started that I never got a chance to enjoy life or highschool and my peers like others did. You don't realize how much lack of confidence you…

The This Is Me Foundation is very excited to announce we will be giving two national scholarships to graduating high school seniors in the US who have/had alopecia and are pursuing advanced level education! Please contact us at info@thisismefoundation.com to receive an application. We will be awarding 2 $500.00 scholarships that will be sent directly to the student.

Has anyone lost their hair due to severe estrogen deficiency and tried HRT to regrow their hair?

In my thirty-eight years on this planet I have seen friends come and go. Living with a shameful disease like alopecia I have seen a fair share mostly go. I can admit to myself a lot of that was due to not wanting anyone close enough to know my shameful secret. I have gotten better at picking my friends over the years, as we all do as we get older. Or so I thought. Coming out of the shame of alopecia three years ago I found a set of friends that welcomed my new found energy. These friends…

Dear all,

my dermatologist has told me a few good things on DPCP (Diphenylcyclopropenone). I have read a few studies on its effect, and it seems worth a try despite the itchiness - like 40% of the times it has "considerable effects"

Does anyone here know how to get it in the US? It is not FDA approved, but I have also seen a lot of posts of people having used it.

Any tip helps!

Thank you ,

Guillem

That is how I feel tonight. My alopecia struck me 6 years ago at the age of 35. It came 2 years after my second child was born. My thyroid was not being treated properly and I was depressed. In fact, depression has lurked in and out of my life for as long as I could remember. I have spent a lot of time trying to understand my situations in life. To this day it is unclear to me why I was handed the life I got. I know that sounds scary but if you were in my shoes you would question it almost…

Hello to all my friends at Alapecia world. A friend gave me a magazine a couple of weeks ago because she had bought 2 the same called (That's Life).Of course I read it from cover to cover. There was a section that said tell us your story so I thought ok I will tell them about my hair loss. Didn't hear anything and to be quite honest I had fogotten that I had even written to them. Well I recieved a call from the Magazine the other day sent them some photo's of when I was loosing my hair, and…

HI HI - So, I just moved into a new apartment and I have now been wearing wigs for a bit now. I am starting to accumulate more and more wigs - but I have not been able to find a good way to store them. I only have 1 wig stand and tend to find myself just lying others on tables or a empty wine bottle. This cannot be good for them ... Please share your lovely secrets on organizing and storing your hair pieces...I would love some new ideas :)

I have always been a traveler. I love everything about new places, from finding a random movie theater in Wisconsin to eating at a great restaurant in Puerto Rico. I love just people watching. I would pack my bag, throw on my wig, and jump in my car/get on a plane. I'm that free-spirited, get up and go with just a small bag type.



Well, one of the things I started to notice was that as our country cracks down on national security, TSA/Airport personnel were starting to check for…

I think that the hardest thing about Alopecia is accepting it. Sure, we can slap on a wig, hat or turban to hide ourselves within society, but to actually accept hair loss and who we are with it is an achievement not all obtain easily.

Marketing and media have influenced society in becoming a place only for those of beauty, and have successfully painted a picture of what they claim — perfection looks like. This has caused a chain reaction in billions of people, setting out to become…

It will be four years in December since I shaved my head. Attempting to balance school, beauty standards, shame, and being in an emotionally and mentally abusive relationship, finding self-acceptance while having alopecia has not been easy. After one huge argument with the guy I was dating, I decided I just needed to be free. While the option should have been to break up with this guy forever, I decided to buy a pair of clippers and loose myself of the beautiful natural hair that I often…

It's been a week since I found out I have Alopecia Areata and just over a month since I discovered the bald patch on my head. During the first couple of weeks while I was waiting to see the dermatologist, I spent practically all of my time researching possible causes of patchy hair loss. It came down to Alopecia Areata as the most likely cause, followed by the mirena iud, some kind of vitamin deficiency, hormonal imbalance, or even cancer.. I was in a panic, but I was determined to find out…