Hi All,

This is my story.How I started out with long, dark, luscious hair and ended up wearing hats to cover my thinning hair.Here goes..
When I was 16 I had this long healthy hair that fell till my hips.And the volume was fantastic.I got compliments where ever I went.Then suddenly my hair started falling out in chunks.At around the same time I started going swimming,so people I knew told me that I was having a reaction to the chlorine water.My hair was very long and I found it very hard to wash it after every swim.The hair fall just kept getting worse and I panicked so bad that I ended up chopping it off till my shoulders.I wept and wept that day coz all my life, as far as I can remember I had long beautiful hair.And from that day on my downhill journey started.
I went to a lot of docs and they did my hormones and told me that I had PCOD and that might be the reason for my hairfall and I was put on pills for 6 months.Still it did me no good.I never got a diagnosis .Some said that it was alopecia areata and some others said that it was male pattern baldness.But after reading a lot of literature, I finally learnt that what I have is female pattern hair loss triggered by stress.Now as I recall , at around the same time that I started swimming , on an emotional front I was going through a turmoil.My parents were getting a divorce and I was preparing for my premed exams.
So anyway my hair fall continued and finally what was left of my once beautiful hair was just one third of the volume and my scalp showing through my thinning hair.Then med school and a long and stressful break up with my childhood sweetheart just made it worse.My relatives and friends started making mean jokes about it.I used to look at my siblings hair and wonder why me??? Every one in my family had beautiful hair,I was the only one who had this mysterious condition for which I dint have a name.
My hair got so bad that the only time I ever felt comfortable was when I just washed it and the rest of the days it was either hats or hours before the mirror combing and adjusting my hair in such a way as to cover up the visible scalp areas.Then one day as always I was googling for magic lotions that perhaps would make this nightmare go away , that I came across alopecia world.Till then I used to feel all alone,I used to look around and think to myself "Jeez every one around me has such beautiful hair,but me".I dint know anyone with this problem,no one I could relate to.I thought that it was a very rare condition and that I was one of the few unlucky people who had it.
It was here that I found a lot of answers.I realized that I was not the only one battling this condition and that there were so many wonderful people here that were doing a marvelous job at beating it in there own brave and bold ways.Reading all their stories had a profound effect on me.It all gave me a new perspective and courage.I finally found my INNER PEACE.I have never been more at peace with myself than I am now.After all hair is the crowning glory and losing it can cripple you,but knowing that your not alone makes it less difficult to accept.Im truely happy now.My concern level about what people may think has vanished over night and Im delighted with this newer and bigger person that I have become.Thanks to all you wonderful wonderful people.
I created this blog so that I can do my part helping people like me.So feel free to write any thing here.Il try my best to help and make a difference.