Rozzy252
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Well, I first noticed my hair was coming out a little over 2 years ago. I was getting ready for a friends wedding and a girlfriend of mine was doing my hair. She pulled out my roll brush and commented on how full of hair it was... and asked me if I cleaned it out withing the last 6 months. I was oblivous at that point until I looked at the brush and realized that I cleaned it out about 4 weeks before and it was already full.
I tinkered at the idea over the next few days....could I really be losing a lot of hair??? The day it hit me...I was sitting in my chair at home, I had just started dating Richard (my future husband) and I was loosely running my hands through my hair. 1 hair here, 2 hairs there, Oh my god...my hair is coming out!!!!! I went to my family doctor in tears and demanded that I switch to a stronger birth control. I knew I had PCOS at that point and now the side effect was my hair coming out. So throughout 2002 I was on Cyclen and my hair shed slowed down dramatically.
In February of this year, I quit the pill for a month and my hair shed dramatically again. I panicked and started up on the pill again until May. At this point I had a dermatologist consult and saw him in April. I was in the middle of a shed... he grabbed my hair (gently) and pulled out 5 hairs. He said that I had T.E. and checked my ferritin level.... it was low. My regimen was to take iron pills and start Rogaine 2% (5% is not available here in Canada). So I did what I was told...although the Rogaine made me shed quite a lot....nothing seem to improve. I saw the Dr. again in July. My ferritin level was normal and I was still shedding. He was questioning whether I had a chronic T.E. I asked him if it was possibly Androgenetic Alopecia and he said he couldn't rule it out but my shedding is quite rapid so he leaned towards the scalp biopsy for a direct answer. In August, I quit the Rogaine... my wedding was coming up in October and I was soooo scared that I wouldn't be able to have enough hair by then.... I also postponed my scalp bx. until 3 days after the wedding.
In the mean time , the past 6 months we've been trying to get pregnant without any luck....
I had my scalp bx done on October 28th. I went in to see him last week for the results.....this is what the report said.... non scarring, non inflammatory miniturization of hair follicles...with preservation of the # of follicles. There is NO... T.E. process... more likely to be Androgenic related....ahhh...Androgenetic Alopecia.
I looked at my derm as he told me about the anti-androgenic medications I can go on...but not until I have a baby. I sat there and looked at him... (I have to wait). Then he said if I don't do anything about this then it will be noticable in a few years. IF I do go on the medication then it will help save my hair but the side effect is weight gain. So I have to make an appt to see him the minute I have a baby and quit breast feeding....which could be years... I told him I felt like I was getting chemo with all my shedding...and he looked at me with a sad look on his face and said I know.
Okay. On my way home, my mind was racing, my gut was sick. I HAVE TO GET PREGNANT!!! NOW!!!! Oh my god, I'm either going to be fat or bald or both. I walked in the door with tears streaming down my face and told my husband that he was going to be a widower in 10-15years because I refuse to live with this. I had it all planned for myself where I would lock myself in the garage and run the car... and fall asleep...sometime in my 40's. I sat in the bathroom all day...shaking and crying....I can't believe this. What a kick in the gut.
That night, I talked to my mother. I always knew my biological father was apparently bald....and since menopause, my mother has been thinning too. I asked her if anyone else in her family we're bald...and she was like yes... her grandmother, all her aunts....although her mother was spared(yes my Grandma has a full head of hair). I was sooo upset.I told her that I was going to die sometime in my 40's from low self esteem... she was trying to make me feel better by playing the game... "well if you had the choice between losing your hair or your left arm...which would you choose??? " I was shaking my head on the phone at this stupid game and answered my arm. Of course if the game of life told me I had a choice between cancer or losing my hair...I'd lose my hair. So my mom didn't make me feel better. My husband said I could go for transplantation.... Ahhhh what a week.... so this is my story in a nutshell....I'm trying to get pregnant right now....so I can go on medications when I'm done.....
talk to you soon,
Rozzy :x
I tinkered at the idea over the next few days....could I really be losing a lot of hair??? The day it hit me...I was sitting in my chair at home, I had just started dating Richard (my future husband) and I was loosely running my hands through my hair. 1 hair here, 2 hairs there, Oh my god...my hair is coming out!!!!! I went to my family doctor in tears and demanded that I switch to a stronger birth control. I knew I had PCOS at that point and now the side effect was my hair coming out. So throughout 2002 I was on Cyclen and my hair shed slowed down dramatically.
In February of this year, I quit the pill for a month and my hair shed dramatically again. I panicked and started up on the pill again until May. At this point I had a dermatologist consult and saw him in April. I was in the middle of a shed... he grabbed my hair (gently) and pulled out 5 hairs. He said that I had T.E. and checked my ferritin level.... it was low. My regimen was to take iron pills and start Rogaine 2% (5% is not available here in Canada). So I did what I was told...although the Rogaine made me shed quite a lot....nothing seem to improve. I saw the Dr. again in July. My ferritin level was normal and I was still shedding. He was questioning whether I had a chronic T.E. I asked him if it was possibly Androgenetic Alopecia and he said he couldn't rule it out but my shedding is quite rapid so he leaned towards the scalp biopsy for a direct answer. In August, I quit the Rogaine... my wedding was coming up in October and I was soooo scared that I wouldn't be able to have enough hair by then.... I also postponed my scalp bx. until 3 days after the wedding.
In the mean time , the past 6 months we've been trying to get pregnant without any luck....
I had my scalp bx done on October 28th. I went in to see him last week for the results.....this is what the report said.... non scarring, non inflammatory miniturization of hair follicles...with preservation of the # of follicles. There is NO... T.E. process... more likely to be Androgenic related....ahhh...Androgenetic Alopecia.
I looked at my derm as he told me about the anti-androgenic medications I can go on...but not until I have a baby. I sat there and looked at him... (I have to wait). Then he said if I don't do anything about this then it will be noticable in a few years. IF I do go on the medication then it will help save my hair but the side effect is weight gain. So I have to make an appt to see him the minute I have a baby and quit breast feeding....which could be years... I told him I felt like I was getting chemo with all my shedding...and he looked at me with a sad look on his face and said I know.
Okay. On my way home, my mind was racing, my gut was sick. I HAVE TO GET PREGNANT!!! NOW!!!! Oh my god, I'm either going to be fat or bald or both. I walked in the door with tears streaming down my face and told my husband that he was going to be a widower in 10-15years because I refuse to live with this. I had it all planned for myself where I would lock myself in the garage and run the car... and fall asleep...sometime in my 40's. I sat in the bathroom all day...shaking and crying....I can't believe this. What a kick in the gut.
That night, I talked to my mother. I always knew my biological father was apparently bald....and since menopause, my mother has been thinning too. I asked her if anyone else in her family we're bald...and she was like yes... her grandmother, all her aunts....although her mother was spared(yes my Grandma has a full head of hair). I was sooo upset.I told her that I was going to die sometime in my 40's from low self esteem... she was trying to make me feel better by playing the game... "well if you had the choice between losing your hair or your left arm...which would you choose??? " I was shaking my head on the phone at this stupid game and answered my arm. Of course if the game of life told me I had a choice between cancer or losing my hair...I'd lose my hair. So my mom didn't make me feel better. My husband said I could go for transplantation.... Ahhhh what a week.... so this is my story in a nutshell....I'm trying to get pregnant right now....so I can go on medications when I'm done.....
talk to you soon,
Rozzy :x