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Comment by Katelyn Mariie on January 30, 2012 at 10:57pm

Mine started right after i lost my 2 grandperents. i lost my grandmother from my mothers side and i lost my grandfather from my fathers side. it was very stressful because they were 18 days apart in death. i figured it would grow back when life strightened out but it didnt and i have finally accepeted it 4 years later

Comment by Joy on March 16, 2011 at 7:57pm

my hair loss started 4 yrs ago. it shed really bad at the beginning and i was diagnosed with TE but no stressor..the only thing found later..a year or so..
was low iron and progesterone..i continued to lose hair..adjusted my iron, hormones etc and nothing has stopped it. i still lose a bit every day and am diagnosed with Chronic TE...i know my hair is not coming back after this amount of time. i feel it has progressed form Chronic TE to AGA or female pattern baldness ..whatever they call it..its still falling out although has slowed quite a bit lately. it is what it is and try my best to deal with it by getting the best hair i can afford and keep some colored hats for around the house.

Comment by Chefpam on March 16, 2011 at 1:27pm

I have had hairloss for over 20 years. NEVER had a patch though. It just comes out in handfuls all over. I am 40 now and it hasn't stopped. No one has ever really diagnosed me other than Telogen Effluvium, which means hairloss that stops....mine never did.

Comment by Lili Añel (aka Eulalia) on March 14, 2011 at 6:33pm

From what I read here, the final falling out of most hair sounds stress-related. I'm connecting most of my hair falling out as a result of the stress I felt after a friend died in late January. It was overwhelming. I recall one night getting so upset and actually feeling my blood pressure rise. Not long after which most of my hair finally went. Bottom line, its still Alopecia, but no doubt stress accelerates it. If it were just "stress" the hair should just go back when you're un-stressed, but it doesn't.

Comment by George Ortiz on March 14, 2011 at 6:22pm

for me personally I have always been a stressed out individual, very cautious, careful.
i first noticed alopecia when i was about eleven or twelve, a bald patch on eyebrow it went away with cortico-steroid cream and never returned until 2006 ,in 2006 i was under imense stress i lost all my hair symptons included extreme itching were hair was falling out and numbness on temple of forehead I now have alopecia universalis . i believe are problem is viral or bacterial and stress, or seriuos accidents is just one of the many ways the body is weakened allowing for otherwise tame bacteria,vireses to proliferate ,colonize in our systems causing havok,iflamation. Stressors weaken the body.I believe this explains why kids who are young with no mental stresses young people and old alike are effected the same by this desease. did you know hemroids are caused by the pyoily virus not stress as suspected for countless years in the past? What do you think?

Comment by Tamera on March 13, 2011 at 2:52pm

My mom noticed a quarter size bald spot on the bottom of my hairline on my second day of kindergarden, 25 + years ago. I have had varying degrees of AA ever since . I am a full believer that it goes with stress for me, when my husband would be gone on deployments I could go from a full head of hair to no hair in a matter of weeks, and I can connect other major hair loss times to dramatic times in my life, deaths, new schools, deployments, pregnancies, anything that was high stress. I am trying new stress management technigues, if not for my hair for my well-being.

Comment by Becka on March 12, 2011 at 11:47pm

Outta the blue..... no stressful event

Comment by Angie P on March 12, 2011 at 2:50pm

What sent me to the dermatologist was such an intense itching/burning that I wanted to chop my head off. I had some thinning, but hadn't yet discovered the spots. I didn't process my hair, so it was thick and bushy, which hid the beginning small spots very well. The alopecia was officially confirmed by a biopsy. Hmmm, so I guess the alopecia was kind of "out of the blue" at the time of diagnosis. However, in hindsight, when I think back on all the skin and scalp problems I've had all my life, I probably had the lichen planopilaris for years. I was always told that the problems with my scalp were dandruff or dry scalp. I have chosen not to dwell on the "what-ifs" of receiving an earlier diagnosis of the lichen planopilaris. Meh. Can't make the world spin backward. :)

Comment by Ani Harvey on March 12, 2011 at 2:31pm

I first noticed a thin patch on the side of my head, then a patch at the nape of my neck whilst on hols, great, that has all grown back but i keep my hair really short because after years of being tied to long hair a new more confident mehas emerged. I have had no leg hair for a few weeks so welle see what happens next, but im starting to see it as part of me.xx

Comment by Henry on March 12, 2011 at 1:23pm

My first time with AA was in 2005 january in 10th grade and it was only 3-4 months(maybe 3 patches). 2nd time was 2006 january-07 march and one patch never gone (5 patches). 3 happy years with no problem with hairs. Third time was 2009 october, day when i must go to Afghanistan to war, i shaved my head with machine like soldiers do and i see 3 very small patches. I suspected my alopecia come back and i maintain my kenalog injections and needle from my alopecia old days and my mother inject me but needle didnt work :D:D. So there i was with alopecia in helmand desert fighting with taliban, sometimes i forgeted i have alopecia because hair loss was my small problem i hoped it extend 3-4 months like first time but no, after 8-9 months i discover my right eyebrow is smaller then my left eyebrow and here i am now with no hairs and eyebrows and lashes. I love my bald head but i want my eyebrows back so f....ing badly. I inject myself with kenalog to eyebrows only because i dont want my hairs back only eyebrows, it was 8 days ago and now must wait and hope.I hope my hairs never grow back it was 3rd time i dont want 4th and 5th time to go through hair loss.

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