Hello everyone,
I am a 28 yr old with hairloss that keeps getting worse. I guess my hair started falling out when I was about 14 or 15. It was nothing drastic, but I had started noticing more hairs in the shower when I was done and a few more in my hair brush. So, my mother had taken me to a dermatologist to see what he thought. The first thing he said was,"If you think you are losing more hair than normal, we should do a hair count for one week." So everyday for 7 days I would take all the hairs from the brush and the shower and put them in a baggie. I dropped them off to his office, and a day later he called me back in. He said that there was a considerable larger amount of hair then he would have hoped, so the next step was blood work. About a week later I went back and he told me the results seemed fine, so he just said it may be stress related, or it may be because I was on birth control a while back. He told me to try Rogaine (for men, they didnt have womens yet). I used it for a while, but it was useless and expensive. My hair was still falling out. It wasn't really that bad, so I let it go for a little while. Obviously that was a mistake, because as time passed, more and more people would tell me about the "bald" spot that seemed to be growing. Fortunately it was pretty easily hidden by the rest of my hair, I just had to watch how I wore it. I guess I was really in disbelief. As time passed and I graduated high school, it became worse. So did the level of stress in my life. My parents divorced after a long drawn out battle, I started college, I worked, and I wound up having a nervouse breakdown. I was put on anti depressants and anti anxiety meds, and one of the side effects was possible hairloss. So, after about a year of this, my boyfriend (now hubby) said that he thought my hair was really bad. So, back to the dermatologist I went. He did more blood work and said that if the results were normal, I should try getting injections in my scalp. Well, that was out of the question ( I have a zero tolerance for pain). He was all out of ideas. I went on vacation in May of 2002 to Florida(lived in NY at that time) and my boyfriend pruposed. I was so thrilled, but then when I went to my cousin's hair salon to tell him and became really sad. It occurred to me that I was going to be in a ton of photos and my hair was horrible. My cousin suggested Nioxin, and after 6 months, I couldnt afford it anymore. No great loss, it wasn't doing anything. Well, after the wedding (right after) I got pregnant. I was having twins and was very very sick. On top of the hairloss I had, my hair fell out from being sick. So here I am now, 28 and my hair is sooo thin, even little kids point it out. My hairdresser said to use Nioxin, so I have been, and it is not doing a thing
I am a 28 yr old with hairloss that keeps getting worse. I guess my hair started falling out when I was about 14 or 15. It was nothing drastic, but I had started noticing more hairs in the shower when I was done and a few more in my hair brush. So, my mother had taken me to a dermatologist to see what he thought. The first thing he said was,"If you think you are losing more hair than normal, we should do a hair count for one week." So everyday for 7 days I would take all the hairs from the brush and the shower and put them in a baggie. I dropped them off to his office, and a day later he called me back in. He said that there was a considerable larger amount of hair then he would have hoped, so the next step was blood work. About a week later I went back and he told me the results seemed fine, so he just said it may be stress related, or it may be because I was on birth control a while back. He told me to try Rogaine (for men, they didnt have womens yet). I used it for a while, but it was useless and expensive. My hair was still falling out. It wasn't really that bad, so I let it go for a little while. Obviously that was a mistake, because as time passed, more and more people would tell me about the "bald" spot that seemed to be growing. Fortunately it was pretty easily hidden by the rest of my hair, I just had to watch how I wore it. I guess I was really in disbelief. As time passed and I graduated high school, it became worse. So did the level of stress in my life. My parents divorced after a long drawn out battle, I started college, I worked, and I wound up having a nervouse breakdown. I was put on anti depressants and anti anxiety meds, and one of the side effects was possible hairloss. So, after about a year of this, my boyfriend (now hubby) said that he thought my hair was really bad. So, back to the dermatologist I went. He did more blood work and said that if the results were normal, I should try getting injections in my scalp. Well, that was out of the question ( I have a zero tolerance for pain). He was all out of ideas. I went on vacation in May of 2002 to Florida(lived in NY at that time) and my boyfriend pruposed. I was so thrilled, but then when I went to my cousin's hair salon to tell him and became really sad. It occurred to me that I was going to be in a ton of photos and my hair was horrible. My cousin suggested Nioxin, and after 6 months, I couldnt afford it anymore. No great loss, it wasn't doing anything. Well, after the wedding (right after) I got pregnant. I was having twins and was very very sick. On top of the hairloss I had, my hair fell out from being sick. So here I am now, 28 and my hair is sooo thin, even little kids point it out. My hairdresser said to use Nioxin, so I have been, and it is not doing a thing