A local doctor is doing a study on thinning hair and alopecia with the low level laser. I have a consult today. Was wondering if anyone has any experience with this??????

Hi. I'm Shelly. I am 45 years old and live in the middle of the United States. I love to travel. I like to make stuff. My favorite thing is to sit outside and read in the sun.

I started losing my hair in my early 30s when my daughter was young. I started thinking the hair around my temples was getting really thin. Then I found a blad spot. After a while there were more bald spots than hair and I couldn't really pretend it was normal anymore. I kind of felt like I had the…

Hey AW!

I've been absent for awhile, but I'm back and wanted to share with you all, and to meet all of the newcomers since I've been gone! I graduated from college last March with a double major in literary journalism and global cultures, and was chosen to be the commencement speaker at my university in June. After leaving Irvine, I moved to the east coast in Aug for my first post-grad internship. Since then, I've interned at NPR and am now currently interning at MSNBC in New…

Here's mine. What's yours?

Okay. I have had to finally admit to myself, my mirror, my family, my friends and any loved ones that I am an alopecian. Now, it is known. It was always in my genes, waiting to be triggered. It doesn't matter if it is one small spot or over my whole body; it IS THERE, and I will always have these genes. So, until/unless a remedy is found in my lifetime, I am free to do what an alopecian needs to do, including:

AVOID wind, swimming and some activities…

im 14 and i have lost all of my hair. it was all a shock at first, it only took a month for it to come out and not long after all my eyelashes and eyebrows came out. it was hard to hide it from everyone at school, it wasnt long before people started to ask questions and call me names, it use to bother me at first but now im coming to terms with the fact that im me and i like the way i am,i use to wear a hat to school untill a week ago when i disided it was time for me to wear a wig. When…

Is there ANYWAY the wonderful creators of this site could add a flag that lets you know that before your comments will be posted to a certain blog that the author has to approve them?

Frankly I would not spend my time responding to such blogs and I get ticked when I have taken the time to write and THEN find out I must be 'approved'

THere Rant over :)

Definitions from my Dermatologist

Alopecia Areata - Circles on Head

Marginal Alopecia - Hair Line

Alopecia Totalis - Hair on head and face

Alopecia Universalis - All Over Body

alright soo... Seen the dermatologist today and she said I circle them all... My hair lines gone all over, yet ive got circles through my head as well. Ive got no body hair except a little bit in arm pits and pubic (just in case you needed to know that) and Ive got none of my face…

I don't even care about hair anymore! Im planning a fundraiser right now to save for a Freedom wig and its the most amazing thing. Its only been a week and so many people want to get involved and help and donate Its RIDICULOUS!!!!!! :D :D :D but i still want my wig haha!!

There are people lives that I believe I have touched because I was not afraid to show my “scars”.

Below is a song that the words ring so true to me and I wanted to share the lyrics with you.

Don’t Hide the Scars

(Michael Puryear/Cheryl Rogers/Jeff Silvey)

From CD: Sisters–The Story Goes On -1995

Vocals: Beverly Crawford/Cindy Morgan

I wept alone

Suffered on my own

I didn’t think that anyone would understand

Until…

Boy, did the person who took over for Dear Abby ever get it wrong today! I read this in the paper while having my oil changed, and was shocked at how misinformed the advice writer was/is. How shall we put her and the poor military wife right on alopecia? Obviously, the steroids are the shots...right? Read on. You can respond to www.DearAbby.com

DEAR ABBY: I'm a 40-year-old female in the military who has been married for a few years. When I got…

I've never really wore a wig in public, always have gone to school without one. Normally the blogs and discussions on here are to help people go without one but I find myself scared to actually wear one! I think it will be weird to go to school one day without a wig and the next, BOOM, i have hair LOL. I don't know how to tell my family I'm considering wigs now either since they are very materialistic and will be TOO happy that i want to and make me not want to wear them again. I just don't…

I feel like sharing - I just got my offer to Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne studying a Bachelor of Film and Television!!!! Moving to Melbourne!!! Woop!!!! So so happy!!!! :D

Hey guys,

Sooo,, I have had alopecia ever since 2007. AT first it was just a spot ( which i named oscar) which went away. Then I started getting more spots, and then my left eyelashes went and then my right eyebrow disappeared ( i know thanks for the symmetry ... NOT).. Well my last 6 months in college which was February 2011- July 2011 I lost 60% of my hair. AND I know it was not bc of stress, bc on Feb 13 I met my first love, and we had 6 amazing months, moments i never thought…

Hair, relationships, jobs, a perfect life. But sometimes, instead, you get what you need.

For Anyone else who want's to know,
Yes, I'm bald so what! Hair does not make a person , if you have not noticed a personality does. Yeah , I wear a wig does that make me any better of a person no, So anyone else who want's to know just read this i have kidney and liver problems that's why it fell out && anyone who want's to tease me for it i'll pray for you and almost died in June i'd rather have no hair then be dead with beautiful hair (:
Bald is Beautiful ♥

If anyone know my story i had a bf that had au but now as time go by i got very agresive seborheic dermatitis with scaly eyebrows scalp and painful ear swollen red bit itchy as that went away now i have dry scalp still ,face .But weird part is my eyebrows and pubic area have this pink skin look itchy painful a bit if i pressure it next day whatever this is from my eyebrow it went down my eye making it red and swollen itchy to now is spreading on my nose is pink and itches also i noticed bit…

My name is Brittany Peterson, I am nineteen years old and I have Alopecia Universalis. As I sit in my dorm room floor, I struggle to find the words to talk to you about my disease because it is such an emotional, and frustrating matter for me. No piece of paper will accurately capture or express to you what I've been through, but for every other child that has to deal with this disease, I will try and make this paper as good as I can, and speak for all the voices that can't find the words to…

Hello Everyone! Please check out this link. I was obsessed with Barbies as a little girl. I got my AU as an adult but I can only imagine how great it would help a little girl with Alopecia to have a Barbie that resembles her. She is one of the many faces of beauty and would be so awesome to have her represent not only the cancer patients of the world but the alopecians too.…

The holidays just won't stop! For me tonight is the final party for the year. Thank goodness.

And I am in a quandary. It's over my wigs. Is anyone on here surprised? I am sure I am the ONLY person to ponder their wig dilemma on Alopecia World. ha ha. Right.

Here's the deal. No one at work has seen me in my wigs yet. My hair is still passable enough to get away with it when I go to work. But let's face it, there is nothing by way of styling that I can do with it. It's too thin…