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Hair Again
I am now experiencing a really weird feeling. I now have hair again.
I cannot believe that it has all come back. I have not shaved my head for a month now and I have more hair than I would have thought possible in such a short period of time.
The last time I shaved was on the Saturday evening of the August bank holiday. I shaved at about 1800 hours as I was going to our friends’ 25th Wedding Anniversary party. As always with a big night out I wanted a really close shave and a really shiny head to make me feel good for the evening. The next day I didn’t have a lot to do so I left it and I did the same on the Monday as it was a bank holiday. On the Tuesday morning my wife suggested that I leave it another day as the stubble on my head looked pretty much all over and she said it didn’t look as though there were any patches left. I knew that the hair was re-growing but in most of the patches it had come back white. The patches were reducing as the hair around the edges changed back to my natural colour. Now the patches were gone.
My wife then asked me to leave it for a week to see what it looked like with a weeks growth and the next thing you know is that I am a month down the line and have a full head of very short hair.
My colleagues at work have said that I now look like Action Man, the toy soldier as my head looks like it has a Velcro hair style as Action Man does.
It really is weird having hair.
In many ways I just want to shave it off but my wife seems to like that fact that it has come back. She says that I now have the choice but do I? I feel under pressure to leave to it bit longer. I feel that perhaps I should have hair but keep it really short in which case I now need a hair cut. How weird is that. One month I am bald and the next I am talking about having a hair cut.
My hair is short but I now have to use shampoo again every day.
My main problem about this whole thing though is that I feel guilty!!!!!!!
Here am I, a 53 year old man who is happy at being bald. I have no fear now of the implications of Alopecia and my hair has come back. There are so many women and children out there who are in such pain with Alopecia but it just doesn’t grown back and yet my hair has returned.
I many ways I am really happy that I now have that choice. I can let my hair grow, keep it short or shave it all off. I just wish that we could all have that same choice.
I cannot believe that it has all come back. I have not shaved my head for a month now and I have more hair than I would have thought possible in such a short period of time.
The last time I shaved was on the Saturday evening of the August bank holiday. I shaved at about 1800 hours as I was going to our friends’ 25th Wedding Anniversary party. As always with a big night out I wanted a really close shave and a really shiny head to make me feel good for the evening. The next day I didn’t have a lot to do so I left it and I did the same on the Monday as it was a bank holiday. On the Tuesday morning my wife suggested that I leave it another day as the stubble on my head looked pretty much all over and she said it didn’t look as though there were any patches left. I knew that the hair was re-growing but in most of the patches it had come back white. The patches were reducing as the hair around the edges changed back to my natural colour. Now the patches were gone.
My wife then asked me to leave it for a week to see what it looked like with a weeks growth and the next thing you know is that I am a month down the line and have a full head of very short hair.
My colleagues at work have said that I now look like Action Man, the toy soldier as my head looks like it has a Velcro hair style as Action Man does.
It really is weird having hair.
In many ways I just want to shave it off but my wife seems to like that fact that it has come back. She says that I now have the choice but do I? I feel under pressure to leave to it bit longer. I feel that perhaps I should have hair but keep it really short in which case I now need a hair cut. How weird is that. One month I am bald and the next I am talking about having a hair cut.
My hair is short but I now have to use shampoo again every day.
My main problem about this whole thing though is that I feel guilty!!!!!!!
Here am I, a 53 year old man who is happy at being bald. I have no fear now of the implications of Alopecia and my hair has come back. There are so many women and children out there who are in such pain with Alopecia but it just doesn’t grown back and yet my hair has returned.
I many ways I am really happy that I now have that choice. I can let my hair grow, keep it short or shave it all off. I just wish that we could all have that same choice.
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Comment by Chelsea McGee on September 26, 2008 at 1:57pm
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I really enjoyed your blog. Im so happy for you! Knowing that some people's hair do grow back, gives me the hope that mine may do the same someday! Take care! :)
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Comment by Margie on September 26, 2008 at 2:17pm
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Hi Ray, I think it is absolutely wonderful that you have had regrowth!!! Like Chelsea said, don't feel guilty, you give us hope. I have been at a point now with my son where I have lost all hope. OK, we see a couple of hairs growing in but he lost so much in the last 2 months (particularly the last two weeks) that we are looking at going to the shaven look very soon. I love to know that at some point he may regrow the hair that he wants back so badly!!! This is fantastic for you and great news for all the rest of us.
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Comment by JeffreySF on September 26, 2008 at 6:55pm
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Congrats on the regrowth Ray.
Go with whatever feels right!!!
Jeff
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Comment by Dave on September 27, 2008 at 7:23am
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MIne does the same thing.. And I guess I have had the same guilt feelings as well, since mine would happen a LOT. Fall out, grow back in white patches everywhere, fall out-repeat, repeat, repeat... So the last time I got a haircut, the barber showed me the back of my head after the haircut and the hole lower half was all white and the rest had patches all over. That was it for me, I shaved it all off. I get more good comments than bad, so I have left it, but with winter coming, I may grow it back.. Who knows. But the wierd thing? I heard a Doctor say alopecia is connected to allergies. And that nakes sense since all my bald spots were on the back of my head and dust mites love pillows and thats one of the things Im allergic to. Hmm. We will see. Congrats!
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Comment by Amber Lounder on September 27, 2008 at 12:13pm
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Thats great news that your hair grew back. I can understand the guilt It's funny, you have to accept the Alopecia and then it says Pshyc . Just a joke you don't have it anymore hehe I just lost my hair and I don't think I'm ready to get it back yet:))
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Comment by Lori Powers on September 27, 2008 at 10:00pm
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Ah, hugs honey! Enjoy it. Really - it IS your choice. And maybe tomorrow it will be gone.
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Comment by Ray on September 29, 2008 at 5:43am
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I starte3d to loose my hair in June 2007. I shaved it all off on 12 December 2007 adn it has now grown back.
Regards
Ray
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Comment by Che on November 1, 2008 at 10:48am
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Hi Ray! How are you? I read that you have your hair back again, congrats! how long did it take to come back and how long did you have alopecia and what type of alopecia was it?
Sorry for all the questions but I'm very interested.
I signed up because of your post: "After the course of steroids I was given various blood tests which showed that I had a thyroid problem and I was therefore prescribed Thyroxin tablets to resolve the situation."
I think I have the same problem as you and I have Alopecia Universalis I wounder what the name of the Thyroxin tablets is? and how long did you take it ? and how much?
I'm going to visit a dcctor soon and I will ask him about these Thyroxin tablets that you used.
Thank you,
Che
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