Body Hair Will Not Grow Back, Balding Head...

[Sickandsad]

Hi everyone. I have been losing clumps of hair for years now. Was deficient in vit d iron etc. I went to the derm and she told me its chronic telogen effluvium. I have had extreme stress all my life and nutrient deficiencies so I thought now that I'm kind of getting better it will all work out. Then I read how a stuffed up thyroid can cause you to lose hair. My leg hair has not grown back completely. I was a very hairy girl. Well I shaved my body at the start of the year and my hair is so thin. Patchy arms and legs. One whole side of my leg is bald. Pubes and armpit are still hairy but I think a little less hairy than before. Has anyone experienced this? I just don't know what to do... I have a bald spot at the back of my head I use to have crazy thick hair now its so thin. Its making me so sad. Please help!! I just want to know if anyone is in the same boat and what their condition is. My eyebrows and eyelashes are the only part of my body that have remained thick.

 

[hairblues]

Hi everyone. I have been losing clumps of hair for years now. Was deficient in vit d iron etc. I went to the derm and she told me its chronic telogen effluvium. I have had extreme stress all my life and nutrient deficiencies so I thought now that I'm kind of getting better it will all work out. Then I read how a stuffed up thyroid can cause you to lose hair. My leg hair has not grown back completely. I was a very hairy girl. Well I shaved my body at the start of the year and my hair is so thin. Patchy arms and legs. One whole side of my leg is bald. Pubes and armpit are still hairy but I think a little less hairy than before. Has anyone experienced this? I just don't know what to do... I have a bald spot at the back of my head I use to have crazy thick hair now its so thin. Its making me so sad. Please help!! I just want to know if anyone is in the same boat and what their condition is. My eyebrows and eyelashes are the only part of my body that have remained thick.

I am iron and Vitamin D deficient..really my ferritin it was 12 for few years at least.
But it does sound like maybe thyroid. My Mother had loss of most of her brows and her body hair..but she was never hairy. I 'was' hairy but had laser almost everywhere..
i dont really have any advice except maybe go to an endochronolgist and check you thyroid.
I had read someone where their is a correlation between thyroid function and low iron.
Best to see a specialist.

 

[hairblues]

Opps meant to say my mother had thyroid since her 20s. and this caused what you described. Not that you have same thing but worth getting tested.