Just pulled out a handful of hair

[willplay4food]

I've been on Propecia and rogaine for about a month now. I know all about the shedding. We shed a ton before it starts to get better and that it takes months, etc. etc.

That said...I was shampooing my hair in the shower and I felt a "rip" in my scalp. I looked at my hands and my right hand had a huge clump full of hair.

I looked in the mirror afterwards and the right side of my hairline, which has always been the higher one, is now even higher, almost to the mid-point of my scalp.

What the hell is going on? Is this normal? Shedding single hairs is one thing but thick clumps at a time???........

 

[Dinzy]

I think a lot of this is in your head. I don't mean to belittle you in any way I just think you need to look at your situation a little more objectively in order to preserve your sanity.

Is it possible that you are actually pulling your hair out? Shedding hair just falls out w/o resistance so if you felt a rip then you must have been applying some force to the hairs. I developed somewhat of an OCD habbit of gently tugging on my own hair. And beleive me some days I feel like the sh*t is just falling out like mad. But when I actually am calm about it I realize I have not lost too much ground over the last 11 months. Sure I receded some and thinned out, but it has been much slower than my mind tends to imagine it.

Also most hair shed in the first 3+ months was already dead and waiting to fall out anyway. Just do your best to keep things like this from effecting you too much, with practice you can get yoursel to worry a lot less.