returnoftheshedi said:
I have always shed WELL over 100 hairs a day.
Everyone sheds over 100 hairs a day, whether or not they're losing hair. Counting hairs is a phrase used to describe obsessive compulsiveness for a reason ... and in this case its not advised either.
returnoftheshedi, our regiments are exactly alike except that I use 5% rogaine. HairlossTalk, I completely disagree with you on these two points. One does not just loose 100 hairs a day. I can't believe I'm seeing this statement appear all over the hairloss forums as something that is ok and should be accepted. Unless you're going through a shed, you do not loose over 100 hairs a day period that is an absolutely false statement. I've been loosing my hair for over 6 years now... I have a long history of sheds and I know exactly how much hair I loose when I go through them, and how detrimental they can be on one's overall well being. My worst shed took place when I started using rogaine. I would loose 35-45 hairs over the sink in the morning comb through, 50-60 hairs in the shower, and 15-25 hairs during the application of a thickening serum after the shower. This went on for 2 months and 1 and ½ weeks… I know, because I counted each one of them every single day, and I kept track of it through the entire duration of the shed on an excel spreadsheet. It had nothing to do with me obsessing over it, but only out of curiosity of finding out exactly how much hair I would loose in the shed and how long, exactly, it would last. Most people are simply just that, curious. Because of my experimental approach, my curiosity was satisfied… I lost at least 8000 hairs in the course of just over 2 months – at least, because those were the hairs I was able to count. Most would not care to take such meticulous approach; yet, everyone always wonders “how much will I loose, and how long will it last?†During the course of the shed, at the slightest blow of wind, I could feel individual hairs fall out as they would tickle my nose or my cheeks as they would drop down my face. Following the shed, I would loose no more than 5 hairs in the sink, 3-5 in the shower, and absolutely none as I would apply the thickening serum through my hair. Also, I would, over and over, as a sanity check, run my hand through my hair throughout the day, and none would come out. So where these people get “over 100 hairs lost daily is a normal thing†I do not understand and I refuse to believe it.