Here's something interesting... before I shaved my head, I had thought that the moment that I finally did it, I would come scurrying over to Alopecia World and post pictures and try to get support from everyone. But something strange happened... I found I didn't need the support.



With the advice of my mom, I did the head shave in steps. First, I got my mom to cut off my pony tail (I saved it so I could match my wig to it) and lived with that short hair for a week or so. I went to… Continue

My life has been finally calm and I have been using the time to just relax. University is done until my exchange and I passed all of my classes. The other day I took a huge leap and cut off my 30cm long pony tail of hair. I'm saving it to see what wig color will match best. So right now I have a really funny haircut... as all my mom did was cut the pony tail off from the highest part of my head.



But I have a real dilemma... I play soccer competitively and I do not know how to cover… Continue

I was just wondering if there's any connection between alopecia ophiasis pattern and alopecia totalis or universalis. Is there anyone who had alopecia ophiasis and then became totalis or universalis? Or, anybody who had wonderful regrowth?

Btw, my head looks like a pineapple! I can't believe I'm saying this but it looks really funny. Lots of hair on top and hardly anything on the sides! I will take pictures soon and show before I shave my head.

Thanks everybody!

I'm going to try a new treatment that I've been wanting to try for a while. NOTHING. Well, not exactly true. I will do pretty much nothing so far as treatments, but I will try to stop obsessing about my alopecia and thinking about it every minute. I don't think it's healthy. I see some hair fall out, I get super upset, and then more hair falls out, and it continues in a cycle. I noticed I wasn't losing a lot of hair when I wasn't stressed out.



So lets see how this goes. I'm not going… Continue

I first discovered my bald spot during Christmas break while I was at my boyfriend's house. I was playing with my hair... I felt a bald spot at the back of my head but I had known it was there about 6 months prior. It didn't bother me because when I was in high school I had a small bald spot near my upper hairline, and it grew in. I just thought this other spot would grow in too. But that day I asked my boyfriend to check how big the spot was, and he told me it not loonie sized... more like a 6… Continue