I'm losing my leg hair

[recboi]

is it possible it's from socks and them rubbing against my legs. I have areas where hair is missing, and my legs generally are very hairy.. I don't have this anywhere else on my body of course other than on my head.

 

[metalheaddude]

Sounds like alopecia areata to me. Sock friction on leg hair would never cause that in one million years. Leg hair is very strong and resisiant, alot more so than scalp hair.

 

[bubka]

is it possible it's from socks and them rubbing against my legs. I have areas where hair is missing, and my legs generally are very hairy.. I don't have this anywhere else on my body of course other than on my head.

oh yeah, I notice hair loss in the winter on my calves and thighs which will thicken up a tad in the summer, some type of traction alopecia i am sure, check out old men

 

[beaner]

I've got bald patches on my calves from where my jeans rub against them. It happens to a lot of people. It almost certainly isn't alopecia areata.

 

[bubka]

I know beaner, just make stuff up and post it, like you know what you are talking about :whistle:

 

[Deaner]

If you're losing it down around your ankles then it can easily be socks. If you're randomly losing it all over your legs that's weird.

 

[recboi]

If you're losing it down around your ankles then it can easily be socks. If you're randomly losing it all over your legs that's weird.

It's just the sock/calves area. Could very well be the pants I'm wearing. I've just never noticed this in the past. And it's nowhere else on my body.

 

[chancer]

a long time ago a mate of mine broke his leg...

after 4 months the plaster cast came off his leg was has hairy as that of a gorrilla!!

he had to shave it... the leg having no sunlight or fresh air to it for 4 months made him produce a load of hair their... yet experts say light is key to producing hair... hens all these light combs...