I wear a wig and I would like to join the swim team at my school in a few weeks. I was just wondering if anyone had any experience with swimming and wearing a wig? I will be wearing a swim cap, but I'm just worried about it falling off when I dive in. I also don't want the chlorine to ruin the wig. Any tips?

I was diagnosed with alopecia last May and since then I have been losing more and more hair until now where I only have one patch left. I'm a senior in high school this year, which is supposed to be one of the best years of your life, but I feel like it's been the worst. Everywhere I go I always get second glances because of the scarf I have to wear. I've gotten all of the snide comments like "Are you a dude, cause your wearing a dude rag." or "You look like a gangster or maybe a terrorist"…

Do you ever resent people with hair?  I lost my hair after chemo and it never came back.  I thought I had accepted the loss, telling myself I was alive and that if never having hair was the price for being alive it was no big deal. But more often lately I see people I know who have gone through chemo and their hair is coming back and mine did not. It is getting harder and harder not to resent them.

I have read the postings about others accepting their loss and I know there are other…

I have had Alopecia Areata since I was five or six and I turned thirteen on August twenty-ninth, twenty-thirteen. I know how hard it can be, I used to have really thick long hair, I still have pretty thick hair, that is where I actually have hair. I shaved my head at the beginning of August, through my Alopecia I have learned to just be myself and smile through the pain. I believe Alopecia is not meant to discourage and break us but to uplift and strengthen us, I know that our Heavenly…

I met the bald woman of my dreams on MySpace.com in the spring of 2007, and I can't tell you how grateful I am that she didn't summarily dismiss me as some creepy dude who simply had a bald fetish.

When I saw her photos on MySpace at the time, I thought she was as fine as they come and I let her know it. Yes, I knew she was bald due to alopecia areata because that was one of the first things her profile stated and she was bald in all her photos. However, it didn't matter one bit: She…

I know how you feel. After 20 years some days I still feel like an alien. Tired of people looking at my wig while talking to me and treating me different than people with hair. This condition keeps me paranoid and depressed.

Hi everyone, after a few years with Alopecia, my hair decided to grow again,at first I didn't get my hopes up as this has happened before and after a few weeks it disappears again. Well this time it grew for a few months, I really was getting used to having hair again, every day I would look in the mirror admire it and also my eyebrows. Well yesterday I woke up to see hair on my pillow, when I touched my head I had a handful of hair, now I have several very large bald patches and I have also…

During the past ten years, there is one thing that I have learned about alopecia: change. When my alopecia first started, it was one perfectly round patch about the size of a quarter. That changed to multiple spots, which all grew back in. And then came back. And then went away in different locations, including most of one eyebrow. I lost my sidewalls about five years ago, and never gained those back. Then, the big blow came, universalis. No eyelashes, both eyebrows,body hair, and all my…

Hello,

I have a wig boutique in Toronto and a I am often asked this question: Is there any financial help for alopecian teenagers still in school?

If anyone can help please contact me.

I would love to help and advise these teenagers.

Best
Gabi

Hi

My name is Islem, i'm from TUNISIA, i'm 26 years old, i would like to share my story for a long time ago but i didn't have the courage to publish it. Actually I leaved alopecia world for a while and now I’m back. So here we go..

2000 : I was diagnosed by Thyroid problems, it’s okay I take my medication and everything going well.

June 2001 : I had alopecia since i was 14, i admit that at that age i didn't really know what's going on with my hair I thought it was just a…

I found out the coolest thing today!!! My Utah Studies teacher Mrs. Winn used to have a form of Alopecia. She asked me about my hair today so we had a little conversation about my Alopecia and how she used to have it. I brought up Alec my Alopecia Buddy because he is in her first period class with my friend Emily (I have it eighth period) so yeah I just thought it would be fun and cool to tell you guys!!!

Dear all,

I have suffered from AA for around 3 years, developing into a mixture of AA and AU over time. At some point, I mostly had no hair on my head, and several patches all around.

In June I started treatment with SADBE and I have to say that my hair has gone back in full (no eyelashes though, as the medicine that I take is not good for the eyes). I am not sure how long the effects will last, but I can guarantee that I look now exactly the same as before suffering from…

Hi,

I was just wondering....how do you know when it is the right
time to tell a person you are interested in dating about
your "oddity" I met this guy..and I've seen him a few times but he hasn't a clue I'm completely bald.. I have AT (so far)...I feel like I'm being a fraud and dishonest:/ It's very emotionally draining..
TY...
Ellen:)

about five years ago i was diagnosed with alopecia areata and had about 3 bald spots that were completely hidable. I was going through a really stressful time in life and i completely associated my bald spots to that. it went away and the spots grew back completely(i also was a lot less stressed out) got back to my breezy self. it came back about two years after that a little bit worse(also at a time of stress, when i had just gotten pregnant) but that too grew back completely. now, after i…