SearchingGirl
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I'm new on here, I've come looking for people to chat with and a bit of support with what's happening to me. My fine, blonde hair used to be full and bouncy and long and (sounds vain) but it was lovely! Over the past few years, I noticed that my hair used to be a lot thicker in my high school photos, but I didn't know why, except that I have had a very depressing and stressful life. Now, over the last few months I have has massive amounts of shedding, and the hair just floats out all day and comes out in my hands and brush. The texture of my hair changed just before it started shedding - it went very brittle and ssooo tangled. Since I started panicking a couple of weeks ago, I've lost about a quarter of my hair and an inch of my ponytail thickness. I also have a bald/very very thin patch forming at the front. My head also feels very sensitive and painful, like a bruised or "tugging" sensation in spots which seem to appear and disappear randomly. I've had blood tests, which were normal except for borderline low ferritin and iron (have been taking supplements for a month or so with no improvement). The doctor said there is nothing else to do. I have a trichologist appointment next week and no diagnosis yet, but it seems it will take months to sort out, and I am starting to accept that , if it carries on as it is in that I will have lost most of my hair. I'm assuming that this will get worse before it gets better and I'd just like some comfort than life can go on. I'm trying to tell myself that okay, I have hair loss which may get better or worse, but I can still be productive and get on with life. I am in a time in my life when I have just moved after graduating and need to make new friends, I am worried about the effect of my hair loss on people's views of me and my confidence and ability to make friends. I just pray I can make friends (I was hoping to find a boyfriend too - what bad timing!) that are accepting and non-judgemental.. Sometimes it feels like there aren't many people left like that in the world. Thank you for reading
I'm new on here, I've come looking for people to chat with and a bit of support with what's happening to me. My fine, blonde hair used to be full and bouncy and long and (sounds vain) but it was lovely! Over the past few years, I noticed that my hair used to be a lot thicker in my high school photos, but I didn't know why, except that I have had a very depressing and stressful life. Now, over the last few months I have has massive amounts of shedding, and the hair just floats out all day and comes out in my hands and brush. The texture of my hair changed just before it started shedding - it went very brittle and ssooo tangled. Since I started panicking a couple of weeks ago, I've lost about a quarter of my hair and an inch of my ponytail thickness. I also have a bald/very very thin patch forming at the front. My head also feels very sensitive and painful, like a bruised or "tugging" sensation in spots which seem to appear and disappear randomly. I've had blood tests, which were normal except for borderline low ferritin and iron (have been taking supplements for a month or so with no improvement). The doctor said there is nothing else to do. I have a trichologist appointment next week and no diagnosis yet, but it seems it will take months to sort out, and I am starting to accept that , if it carries on as it is in that I will have lost most of my hair. I'm assuming that this will get worse before it gets better and I'd just like some comfort than life can go on. I'm trying to tell myself that okay, I have hair loss which may get better or worse, but I can still be productive and get on with life. I am in a time in my life when I have just moved after graduating and need to make new friends, I am worried about the effect of my hair loss on people's views of me and my confidence and ability to make friends. I just pray I can make friends (I was hoping to find a boyfriend too - what bad timing!) that are accepting and non-judgemental.. Sometimes it feels like there aren't many people left like that in the world. Thank you for reading