I have had alopecia areata since this February and in this time I have lost all of the hair on my head. I remember at the beginning the smallest dime sized patched being the biggest deal and freaking out. Looking back I realize how lucky I was to have 95% of my hair at the time. I am 18 and this is my first wave of it. I have had an extremely stressful year and attest my initial hair loss to excessive stress. I now have over an inch of hair all over my head and have little to no shedding…

After about a year of having lost my hair (all of my head, my eyebrows, eyelashes, legs) I have lots of little hairs popping up. I am trying hard not to get too excited because I don't want to be disappointed. For anyone who has had regrowth, is there something I can do to encourage and hang onto the growth? Keeping my fingers crossed.....

I have honestly come to the conclusion that most dermatologists.... suck. No, seriously they are horrible and don't know what to prescribe they just give any type of drugs and hope it will work. Not cool! Today, I actually had to tell me new dermatologist that no, you cannot give me cortisone shampoo while on squaric acid because it defeats to whole purpose of the acid. So, I have come to the conclusion that in college I will study pharmaceutical science and either become a dermatologist…

Does anyone have hair from the Hair Club? i'm just curious if you ever use reg shampoo/ conditoner or only there stuff....

Had steroid jags for the first time in a long time yesterday. Don't know if it's because it's been so long since my patches were as bad or what but slept for almost 24 hours and today still feel woozy and sleepy and very emotional :-(

I feel really bad that I didn't keep up with stuff after my regrowth. In fairness I have been in and out of hospital for 18 months with bi-polar and that time was awful, strangely I had a full head of hair throughout all that. But about a week after finishing my uni exams for my second year, which had been deferred whilst I had been ill, my hair has started falling out again. It's been happening for about a week but it's pretty fast like usual.

Luckily I'm pretty ok with it. This is the…

I've had alopecia for about 5 months now, not even sure exactly what kind yet ( i'm seeing a rheumatologist soon).

I lost about 40% of my hair, but the last month or so most of it started growing back, i couldn't help but get excited. I had little fuzz covering nearly all my head again. Well the past few days i started noticing smooth spots on my regrowth.

How can i keep from getting too excited when i see regrowth? I don't want to get my hopes crushed, but i also don't want to…

Hi everyone! After acept the ALOPECIA reality i decided shaved my head about 2 weeks ago! It was painfull and hard to identify myself with the image in the mirror, but now i'm getting stronger and being more ok with my "new look".

Yesterday i went to do a street performance on a place where anyone knew me... anyone knew that i used to have hair, anyone knew that i have alopecia or cancer ( like many people must thing that i have)... and yesterday for the first time i felt free to go…

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While I continued to go about my stressful life as usual including breaking up with Jonathan (more on that in the book), I met Aaron* shortly after the New Year.  During our lunch hour, I happened to sit across from him in the courtyard at WMA.  We ended up chatting about surfing, yoga, and self-reflection of all things.  He told me that he believed in working on oneself and growing as a person.  I remember noting that I liked the way Aaron thought.  It also didn’t hurt that he was lean from…

So last week Thursday my dermatologist stated that I had Alopecia Areata for sure but wanted to perform a biopsy just incase. So a week later, which is today, they removed 2 stitches that I received from last week. She came back with my results and I actually have Androgentic Alopecia and Demodex Folliculitis. Which in other terms I had human mites eating at my hair follicules which in turn was making me lose my hair. They issued me a prescription for Metrogel and would like to see the…

I'm still having fun! This summer has been a whirlwind of graduation, bachelorette parties and weddings. While I have had some hesitation about being in a lot of pictures with a quirky haircut and missing hair, the experience of enjoying my friends and my life has overpowered the hesitation and made me even more comfortable in my skin!

Here I am with my father after receiving my Masters in City and Regional Planning. He was rocking his "someone I <3 has alocepia" wrist band that…

I've had AA for a few years now. I shaved my head 9/02/10 and since then I have been patchy, then full head of hair, then patchy again. I understand it will probably be like this for the rest of my life... I've come to terms with that. When I do have hair I color it, give myself a fohawk, whatever I think to do at the time. but WHY is it that when I have a FULL head of hair growing great like this...…

My daughter just graduated from elementary school for handicapped children, but she has Down´s Syndrome and has had Alopecia Universalis for 5 years. And as a reward when the children got their diploma they also got a picture of the class and teachers.

I was stunned when I realized the picture of my daughter had been photoshopped. The photographer had put hair on her head and she looked like a boy. I was so sad, I found the photographer and the only explanation he gave me was this:…

It amazes me how much we've changed. I can still remember the day I first met you & Allie was all over you. I can still remember the day we began talking and you told Alana " Deja's the only girl I want". I remember the day you asked me out. I remember our first kiss. The first time you said I love you. I remember the happiness I felt. But, someone where along the lines all of that changed.

I opened up to you about things no one ever knew. And, I didn't have to worry about your…