Reliability!

Just as you start to get used to your current form of alopecia it changes.

I have had nearly twelve months now with AU. Not a hair anywhere other than the fact that I still have to shave my chin now and then. Even then the hair on my chin is now much finer than it used to be. I’ve had no eyebrows, no eyelashes not anything.

The last couple of weeks though I’ve noticed that I’ve got a few eyelashes come back and the front section of my head has started to have hairs grow back. What a pain in the ****!!!!!!!!!!

Just as I’ve got used to being totally bald I start to get a few hairs again. Now I need to shave them off every morning in order to maintain my bald image. It really is bad news as I have accepted being hair less and love the image, the lack of maintenance and the feeling of being hairless. I just don’t want hair anymore.

The real problem with alopecia is that it is so unreliable. You simply cannot rely upon it to do one thing properly. I’m not interested in treatments to try and bring my hair back but I might consider taking a pill to ensure that it stays away!!!!

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Comment by Jacquie C on November 4, 2009 at 9:37am
I have had AU for 30 years and I agree. It does seem to come and go. Not enough to make to much of a difference I find. It used to give me false hope but now I just enjoy the few eyelashes I get every now and then.
Comment by Ray on November 4, 2009 at 11:17am
I don't have any false hope with the re growth just a simple feeling that life is so much better an easier without any hair at all!!!!!!!!

It's the coming and going that is a pain not the actual hair loss.

It's gtreat though that you can enjoy the few eyelashes every now and then.
Comment by Carol on November 4, 2009 at 2:50pm
I know how you feel Ray! I didn't have a lick of hair for 15 years even though I've had alopecia for 30 but my recent growth is irritating. I have to shave all the time to maintain my look and there's no point in letting the patches grow which I can't even do cause it drives me nuts (the itching just off of a few days growth). I'd take a pill to keep it all away too! Maybe instead of trying to find a cure they should just find something to give some stability to those that deal with unpredictability and the roller coaster of emotions some people undergo (false hopes).
Comment by Mary on November 4, 2009 at 3:06pm
You said it, Ray! I'm experiencing almost the same pattern: almost a year of being AU, and now I have partial eyebrows, lashes and miscellaneous facial hair. It's so weird to have to pluck eyebrow hair I don't want on one side, while having only a tiny patch on the other brow! I'm trying not to get too attached to my regrowth, and I keep reminding myself it's probably going to go away sometime soon. I agree it's better to just be smooth all over!

I'm reminded of an old "Burma Shave" sign I saw along the highway as a child (if you're not in the U.S., or are younger than about 55, you won't know what these are. It was an advertising gimmick for a men's shaving cream that consisted of humorous rhyming poems on small, sequential highway billboard signs.)

For some reason, this one stuck in my mind:

"Says farmer John who's bald on top,
I wish I could rotate the crop."
Comment by Ray on November 5, 2009 at 4:54am
Many thanks for all of the comments. It does seem to be that the most frustrating thing about Alopecia is that lack of stability with the whole thing. The “magic” pill for stability would be great.

I understand that eyebrows and eyelashes are so very important and I would be quite happy if they came back permanently but the growth I have had in this area is like the growth elsewhere, it comes and goes and that is what is frustrating. It’s not a big deal for me really as the growth has been minimal but I would not like it very much if it was more growth without it being permanent.

As for the men’s shaving cream advertisements, I am 54 but I live in the UK and so I’ve not seen the shaving adds. I do think that that farmer John has a good point only I would leave my fields fallow.
Comment by Mary on November 5, 2009 at 10:35am
The Burma Shave signs were a big part of the highway landscape in the US up until about 1963. On long car trips with the family, it provided something fun - especially for the bored kids in the back seat!
Comment by sandy on April 14, 2013 at 3:50pm
Ray..inspiring to read your post. my first day on the site and I have never really spoken to anyone with AU for the 25 years I have had of hair gone, come back, gone again in patches all over. I am married and my wife has tolerated it but she does feel unhappy about it. I am also in the UK and notice you are one of the few ones in the UK. I will now consider shaving off my head too...Sandy
Comment by Ray on April 15, 2013 at 4:02am

Hi Sandy,

Good luck with the shaving!!!

I'm am gald that you found my post helpfull. Since that post I have been though several periods of havign no hair at all and then some periods with a litel growth. To most people though I just look hairless. I still love my new image and wouldn't want hair to come back. Accpetance is the best way forwards.

Where in the Uk are you? I am in Cheshire.

Keep in touch

Ray

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