Ever since I had my second child in 2001 I have told my family and doctors that my hair is thinner on the right side. It is a lot thinner around the hair line on that side. My family and doctor always told me that my hair was fine and I was imagining things. Well this summer I went through a little shedding period. Of course the shedding was mainly from the right side. How strange. Anyway I went to a derm who said that the hair was thinner on that side but it wasn' t bad. She said it was probably a mild breakout of alopecia areata. She gave me some injections in that area and sent me on my way. She said that would reduce the inflammation and stop it from shedding. Well a couple months later I went for my check up. I had not noticed my hair shedding. I still thought it was thinner like always but it wasn't coming out. Just normal shedding. She noticed a few bare spots. They are tiny. Not even the size of my pinky finger nail. The thing is I have a bunch of them and they are all in the same area on the right side of my head. They are not noticeable unless I point them out to others. It just really bothers me. I'm so scared that I am going to loose all the hair on one side of my head. How dumb would that look. I have been taking vitamins for a year or so and if anything the left side has gotten thicker and fuller. Not one flaw. Pretty pretty hair and even a little bit of a different texture than the right side. This is just killing me. The spots that I have are not responding to the injections. I have had injections 4 times now and still same spots, same size. The derm was just shocked that my hair wasn't growing back and encouraged me to get a biopsy since it is only in one area of my head, it is more diffuse than patchy, and my scalp gets real pink and irritated in that area. Well biopsy came back inconclusive. It did say that it MAY be consistent with alopecia areata. What does that mean? My derm said we could do another one but I decided against it. I am just so confused. Do I keep getting these painful injections that aren't doing anything or do I leave it alone. I'm just afraid that maybe the only reason it hasn't gotten worse is because i have been taking the shots. I just find it so strange that it is only on one side of my head and it is very diffuse. One area around the temple is really thin but I have always kind of had a thin spot there. I don't know what to do. I just don't want to loose my hair, but who does. Has anyone else ever had anything like this. I'm so aggravated. I'm just tired of no one being able to tell me what the heck is wrong. I'm thinking of bringing my biopsy results to a different dermatologist just to see. Oh and if it is caused by stress then I have no hope. LOL.