My most recent Blog - an update to my daughter's condition.



I paid almost a million dollars for my daughter’s new hair – well maybe not quite a million, but close!



TIMELINE:

August 2010



I first noticed her eyelashes were missing and assumed that because I have alopecia that so did she.…

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My daughter's trich continues and her hairline continues to get higher and higher. As you can see from these pictures, there is not much left of the back of her hair - it's strip about 1 inch wide at the back. The top of her hair - if I bunch it together - is about 2.5 inches wide.



Her hair is getting to the point where it's starting to look awkward.



Side of Head

Back of Head with hair pulled up just to show how thin… Continue

So it's been about 3 months since I first noticed my daughter's hair coming out/thinning. Her pony tail is getting higher and higher. It now begins about 4" above the nape of her neck and about 2" above her ears on both sides. Dr. said it is probably good that she wears a pony tail and a hair band every day or she'd probably be pulling from the top of her head too. Right now if she wears her hair down you can't really tell that there's hair missing. I think trich is so interesting...the pulling… Continue

When I say that things happen for a reason, I honestly believe it.



In my last post(s) I mention how my daughter has alopecia too...turns out, she most likely has trichotillomania (trich for short) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichotillomania) instead.



My beautiful girl is pulling her hair out by the handfulls - think of the width of a pencil - that's how much comes out with each tug. We are finding it behind the… Continue

...Now to continue with my previous post, No big deal - hair is just an accessory in life



I took my daughter to the doctor last week and she confirmed that the thinning on the back of her head is too symetrical to be anything other than alopecia. She has a 1.5 inch band of hair missing at the nape of her neck, which looks like it might extend up towards her temple area on both sides of her head - this would be similar to when I had this stage and the dermatologist called it 'ophasis'… Continue

So for years i dealt with my own hair loss - no big deal.



It went like this:



When I was 24 my hair came out in little round circles that my mom who is a hairdresser discovered - no big deal.



Over the next couple of years the circles would come and go - no big deal.



Then my eyelashes and eyebrows fell out - okay, still no big deal, I think.



Then all of the hair around my hairline fell out - the dermatologist told me this was called… Continue