I am a 19 year old guy presently residing in Pakistan ( A small country in Asia ) and here goes my story.
Ever since I was a child , I would always get complimented on my hair. People would tell me how lucky I am to have such straight silky hair. As I started high-school , I decided to grow my hair longer and oh man did it look great hair or what... I mean people would always say how much they liked my hair and girls I didn't even know would come to me and ask which shampoo and conditioner I used and how good I looked with my hairstyle. Obviously, life was great. During this time , I would use hair mousse on a daily basis as it gave my hair a really good shine and even more volume.
Then a couple of weeks after turning 18, my hair started shedding (or maybe that's when I first noticed it ). I would lose a lot when I would shower or even when I would brush my hair. I also noticed that I had dandruff. I stopped using hair products after that and at the recommendation of my hairdresser started using a good anti-dandruff shampoo. The shedding reduced greatly and I again got on with life. My hair still looked as good as ever but yeah I could see a reduction in the volume my hair possessed. A couple of old friends even commented how my hair had lost it's thickness and looked pretty thin. I didn't pay much attention to this as I thought it could have been a result of my hairdresser " thinning out " my hair too much.
However last December I noticed a pretty bad shed. I had shoulder-length hair at this point of time and my hair still looked amazing. I mean I would see hair everywhere. On my shoulders, in the shower, on my pillow.. I couple of weeks into this shed , my scalp started itching really badly and everytime I would itch I would see hair fall out. Now I was really worried. I went to see my hairdresser if he could help coz I thought this was again just bad dandruff and he could probably suggest me some good shampoo or conditioner. However my hairdresser told me that my hair was falling out pretty badly and this wasn't just dandruff but my scalp was red all over and I would be better off seeing a doctor.
I rushed to a dermatologist for examination and she told me that I had pretty bad dandruff all over my scalp and told me to wash my hair daily with Nizoral Shampoo and apply some scalp lotion all over my scalp daily. With the long hair it was pretty difficult to apply the lotion , so I got my hair cut into a faux-hawk style. I really liked it at first but it made the " dandruff " much more visible and people kept asking me what was wrong with my hair. Now this was really embarrasing. Since it was winters, I just thought it would go away but it kept getting worse and by now I had all these yellowish crustly flakes all over my scalp which if I would try to take out would come off with a few strands of hair attached. Sometimes the flakes would just get caught up in my hair after a shower and it would get real embarrasing infront of people who kept telling me I had lice !! A friend of mine suggested my another dermatologist , whom I visited in mid-February. He carefully examined my scalp and told my I had pretty severe Seborrheic Dermatitis. This was the first time I heard the name. He gave me an injection to reduce the inflammation. He then prescribed some anti-allergic capsules , a scalp lotion and Poly Tar shampoo with which I was supposed to shampoo my hair three times daily. During this period I lost so much hair that I would literally cry everytime I saw a fallen hair.
So I got on with the suggested regime, swallowing tablets everyday & rubbing lotion into my scalp and then washing my hair with the Poly Tar shampoo. To my amazement the treatment did work , the flakes mostly disappeared and my hair started feeling good again. However now my hair was thinner than ever before and I had to apply some sort of products to give my hair some life. I grew out my bangs over to my eyes and would mess up the hair at the top and it did look good. However , my hair would like crap when when wet and I could never go out with my hair wet. Also as soon as I would wake up, my hair would again look like crap .. really greasy and without any life whatsoever. However , one positive which came out was that I was hardly " shedding " any hair. The only time I would lose hair would be when I would shower. I would also get a hair or two on my hands when applying styling products but would hardly ever lose more than 5-7 hairs a day. The fact that I had stopped using a comb/brush and only used my hands to style my hair may have contributed to this.
To be continued....
Ever since I was a child , I would always get complimented on my hair. People would tell me how lucky I am to have such straight silky hair. As I started high-school , I decided to grow my hair longer and oh man did it look great hair or what... I mean people would always say how much they liked my hair and girls I didn't even know would come to me and ask which shampoo and conditioner I used and how good I looked with my hairstyle. Obviously, life was great. During this time , I would use hair mousse on a daily basis as it gave my hair a really good shine and even more volume.
Then a couple of weeks after turning 18, my hair started shedding (or maybe that's when I first noticed it ). I would lose a lot when I would shower or even when I would brush my hair. I also noticed that I had dandruff. I stopped using hair products after that and at the recommendation of my hairdresser started using a good anti-dandruff shampoo. The shedding reduced greatly and I again got on with life. My hair still looked as good as ever but yeah I could see a reduction in the volume my hair possessed. A couple of old friends even commented how my hair had lost it's thickness and looked pretty thin. I didn't pay much attention to this as I thought it could have been a result of my hairdresser " thinning out " my hair too much.
However last December I noticed a pretty bad shed. I had shoulder-length hair at this point of time and my hair still looked amazing. I mean I would see hair everywhere. On my shoulders, in the shower, on my pillow.. I couple of weeks into this shed , my scalp started itching really badly and everytime I would itch I would see hair fall out. Now I was really worried. I went to see my hairdresser if he could help coz I thought this was again just bad dandruff and he could probably suggest me some good shampoo or conditioner. However my hairdresser told me that my hair was falling out pretty badly and this wasn't just dandruff but my scalp was red all over and I would be better off seeing a doctor.
I rushed to a dermatologist for examination and she told me that I had pretty bad dandruff all over my scalp and told me to wash my hair daily with Nizoral Shampoo and apply some scalp lotion all over my scalp daily. With the long hair it was pretty difficult to apply the lotion , so I got my hair cut into a faux-hawk style. I really liked it at first but it made the " dandruff " much more visible and people kept asking me what was wrong with my hair. Now this was really embarrasing. Since it was winters, I just thought it would go away but it kept getting worse and by now I had all these yellowish crustly flakes all over my scalp which if I would try to take out would come off with a few strands of hair attached. Sometimes the flakes would just get caught up in my hair after a shower and it would get real embarrasing infront of people who kept telling me I had lice !! A friend of mine suggested my another dermatologist , whom I visited in mid-February. He carefully examined my scalp and told my I had pretty severe Seborrheic Dermatitis. This was the first time I heard the name. He gave me an injection to reduce the inflammation. He then prescribed some anti-allergic capsules , a scalp lotion and Poly Tar shampoo with which I was supposed to shampoo my hair three times daily. During this period I lost so much hair that I would literally cry everytime I saw a fallen hair.
So I got on with the suggested regime, swallowing tablets everyday & rubbing lotion into my scalp and then washing my hair with the Poly Tar shampoo. To my amazement the treatment did work , the flakes mostly disappeared and my hair started feeling good again. However now my hair was thinner than ever before and I had to apply some sort of products to give my hair some life. I grew out my bangs over to my eyes and would mess up the hair at the top and it did look good. However , my hair would like crap when when wet and I could never go out with my hair wet. Also as soon as I would wake up, my hair would again look like crap .. really greasy and without any life whatsoever. However , one positive which came out was that I was hardly " shedding " any hair. The only time I would lose hair would be when I would shower. I would also get a hair or two on my hands when applying styling products but would hardly ever lose more than 5-7 hairs a day. The fact that I had stopped using a comb/brush and only used my hands to style my hair may have contributed to this.
To be continued....
