KATELYN Payne, 13, lives in County Durham with her dad Darren, 44, mum Ann-Marie, 37, and twin brother Hayden. She says:

“As my classmates and I ran inside after a rainy PE lesson, I could only watch as they wrung out their wet…

Hello all

Any help appreciated in advance

I present as typical female pattern hair loss...Its just thinning on crown center part area...sides and back pretty normal.

I went to several Dr over years mentioned it and they all said AGA.

My loss has been slow and steady..

I started looking into it more seriously this year--long story short i had a biopsy done few weeks ago because i wanted to see a Dr for AGA that will only take patients referred by…

Successful treatment of AA with topical vitamin D:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3412244/

Most people with alopecia have a vitamin D deficiency especially if they have a defect in the VDR gene ( like I do, I don't convert Vitamin D from the sun very well)

Might want to get your vitamin D levels checked and if low take like 4000ui a day and get some topical vitamin D and…

I'm really having a hard day today. I just feel like I'm drowning and i have no one in my life that understands what I'm going through. I just wish I had someone that I could talk to. 

My eyelashes and eyebrows have grown back! The hair on my head is coming back! I don't want to get too excited. I never lost all my hair before 2 years ago. My dermatologist is giving me steroid injections in my scalp and it appears to be working. I know there is no guarantee that it won't fall out again. I can hope it will come back and stay! It's pretty even all over. Thank God!

I remember when we first saw that quarter sized bald spot on my 5 year old daughter's head. I was terrified and determined to make sure I found a way to stop the inevitable. Trust me we tried everything, thinking the solution was one experimental treatment away. Finally my daughter said she was done with the painful injections, irritating treatments and crazy diets. There was a big fear of the unknown, but I knew ultimately it was her decision whether she wanted to continue. She just wanted…

Hi everyone!

So I had Folliculitis and was able to maintain another outbreak for about a year. My old bald spot was about 2.5-3 inches long and I was wearing clip in extensions every day to give body and length til my hair grew back. I was feeling good until about a month ago it really started to fall out again. I thought it was a new outbreak and went back to the dermatologist but now I have AA! My clip ins still kinda work, but soon my hair won't cover the tracks. Today the clips…

Charity Bailey, co-host of RightThisMinute.com, is helping spread the word about women and alopecia by featuring the powerful story of her own sister's battle with the hair loss disease.…

My 11 year old daughter was just diagnosed with alopecia areata a month ago.  We started her on the steroid scalp drops and after a few weeks of use her scalp is now covered in terrible acne.  It's painful and seems to be more prominent in the areas where there's still hair.  The bald spots don't have nearly as much.  I can't get hold of her doctor and the pharmacist just said to quit using the steroid until I talk to the doc.  Anyone else had this reaction?  

I got a wig a few weeks ago.  I spent $550 on it.  It is synthetic.  I like it, but to me it looks so fake.  I've worn it about 5 times now and I have a hard time getting the part right.  I feel like I have a melon on my head.  I still have a lot of my own hair left. I am losing it in top middle, on the sides and at the crown.  I don't know it that's what is making me feel like a melon head or not.  Also, I don't feel like I can do a lot with it (like putting the bangs back) without it…

Hey everyone, So I was diagnosed AA on Nov, 2015. i have seen many doctors in the city and none of them have actually helped me. After a long wait, I am being treated by Dr. Brett King from Yale University. On July 8th, i had my first appointment. He wanted me to start taking Xeljanz but i refused to the idea of being exposed to Cancer and other side effects. So he gave me 3 pulses of prednisone of 350 mg that i took 1 day only and it would be good for the whole month.

At the…

I live in Arizona.  Does anyone have experience or advice for wearing a wig in 100+ degree weather?  My job sometimes has me outside walking from location to location.  I bought my first wig yesterday and wore it today.  Luckily it went well and it wasn't as hot as it normally is, but I am stressing out for the days ahead. 

Thank you

Hey everyone! My name is Christos Kyrgios from Australia - just a quick post to let you know I am doing a clinical trial of the JAK inhibitor Xeljanz now. My friend did it, he has universalis like me and he got all his hair back after 2-3 months of being on the medication.

I am documenting + doing this trial to raise awareness and to test the viability of the medication. Exposure on this type of thing if successful will hopefully get the medication on approved government funding…

Just last year my daughter, who is in elementary school, lost all of her hair. She's had alopecia areata for a few years but we always managed to cover her bald spots. All of a sudden all of her hair was coming out. It turned into alopecia universalis. At first she wore hats to school, then we got her a wig. Kids immediately made fun of her for not having hair and then for wearing the wig. When school got out for the summer she was so relieved. She had a great low stress summer but just…

I am married and living with my husband in Montreal for almost 1 year. I wore a wig coming here and haven't wore it since. I am from the USA and have had alopecia since childhood. I stopped wearing wigs years ago and just wear them when I am in the mood. I have noticed, here in Montreal, I am not stared at and people don't  feel like they have the empowerment to come up to a bald woman and ask me rude questions like they do back home. I am assuming the culture is different. I am curious if…

I'm here and doing good, though it wouldn't seem like it sometimes. I haven't had the best month I was in a car wreck July 31st so my car is gone. A guy ran a red light and hit my car on the back drivers side, I'm at least walking and talking so that's good could have been a lot worse. Well my nieces are started pre-k and going to daycare now so that is good. Man I must sound so weird yet I don't really care at the moment. On a different note I was the maid of honor at my best friends…

https://www.buzzfeed.com/beckybarnicoat/girls-that-prove-bald-is-beautiful?utm_term=.gbGplrrpXe#.agJ5qLL5a1

It's been awhile. September 17th marks 4 years since I found my first bald spot on my head. My hair has fallen out 4 times now. Currently I have almost a head full of hair (again) and it's curly and fun, but no hair on my temples and my hair line is way back from where it used to be. I don't feel comfortable going without a wig on the daily. Now in the last week I noticed fresh spots and losing more in the shower. So here we go again. I found the best way to cope for myself is to push it out…