To basically start, I was diagnosed with Alopecia when I was 10 years old. At the time I was just a kid and had no idea how rude and mean people could be at the time. Had no friends until High School because kids wanted to poke fun and be ignorant, this was when Alopecia was not as known back then. Long story short some hair came back but never all the way, in High school continuing on to now I have such amazing people in my life and never thought about my hair loss to much. It became who I…

All my hair fell out whilst on vacation last September,from having a full head of dark brown hair (not great hair mediocre at best but all mine)to nothing and have subsequently found out it ain't coming back.

So after a good cry I decided only to look at the positives of this.

A three minute shower means 20 more minutes of sleep,No misbehaving to sit staring at oneself in salon mirrors whilst having hair styled

(HA) legs & other body parts no longer have to be…

hi all.
I have had alopechia for 2 years now and still can not come to terms with. I have been hiding inside my house,trying to hide from everybody.Does anybody here had eyebrowtattoo's put on as I am seriously considering getting them done,and also scalp tattoo's seen some places in USA that do it and looks really good,
Thanks

Several years ago I was diagnosed with Alopecia Areata.After that I lost all self-esteem that I had at the time. Throughout the past couple of years, I have begun to receive some of my self-esteem back. Other days being better than others. Around six years ago I picked up playing volleyball and fell in love. I have continued to play ever since. In my most recent season, a couple months ago, I decided I was fed up with hiding my alopecia from my team mates that I adored so much. I prayed and…

I've been off of all wheat products for around 3 months. People are starting to notice that my hair is getting fuller!!!

I am a freshman at a New Jersey State College. I enrolled in an acting course and I was given an assignment that really helped me open up about my condition. We were each given a poem and we had to write an essay about why we would have written that poem today. What would have inspired me to write this? The poem is called Phenomenal Women and after reading it a few times, I knew that writing about alopecia would be my best option. Here is the link:…

"All disease begins in the gut.

- Hippocrates

Hippocrates said this more than 2,000 years ago, but we’re only now coming to understand just how right he was. Research over the past two decades has revealed that gut health is critical to overall health, and that an unhealthy gut contributes to a wide range of diseases including diabetes, obesity, rheumatoid arthritis, autism spectrum disorder, depression and chronic fatigue syndrome.

In fact, many researchers (including…

Hi, my name is Jerrod I am 28 and have been dealing with alopecia areata for about 1 1/2 years. It started with just a small patch of thinning hair that was not noticeable to anyone but me. A few months after I noticed that small spot I was getting my haircut and my barber noticed the patch, which was larger by then and totally bald, he told me about alopecia.

Since then I have been doing my best to hide the bald spot in hopes of spontaneous regrowth. However, the affected area has…

According to an article in The Bolton News:

"A UNIVERSITY student with a fear of heights has just signed up to jump from an aeroplane at 12,000 feet.

Twenty years-old Joe Slack from Westleigh is doing a sponsored skydive on May 11 to raise fund for the support group (Bebold.org.uk) that has done such a lot to help his younger sister, Kim, who…

Today I signed up for a gym membership and the only reason Im saying anything about it is because something funny happened. I was changing directions of the machine to do the other side of my body and this guy comes running over to help me. I had it under control and he said to me "How long have you been fighting the good fight." It took me a couple of seconds to figure out he thought I had Cancer. I responded but saying I don't have Cancer it's Alopecia and it fell out about a year and a…

Changes are part of life. Instead of fighting it, embrace it. Sometimes, it can be the best thing that ever happened. Just breathe, and keep moving forward.

It's been a long while since I've been on here last.

I just find myself on here when I need to talk about something no one else could understand. Now a days I've been writing in a journal but sometimes I wish I could get a response to what I write in it.

So I came back here. Here is the most comfortable place, the place I can be who I really am and people understand me. Dealing with this for such a long period of time you figure I'd be use to this by now. I mean I am but there are…

Fill in the blank. Get creative. I'll post the ones most appropriate and fun for this site. Sometimes, ya just gotta laugh when you are tired of the tears.

Mine: ...the reverse of parasitic mistletoe clumps that attack bare winter trees.

Hi Alopecia Friends:

For a long time, I have been searching for exercise hats to wear to cardio karate and yoga classes. Yesterday, I tested the CoolMax exercise hat and the Madison exercise hat. Both stayed on during my classes, including jumping jacks, bending down to touch my toes, and the downward dog yoga pose. I am not sure how well the hats will stay on when I do martial arts falls yet.

Basically, there are two kinds of exercise hats: beanies/turbans and bandana wraps.…