Comments on: Will I Ever Have The Strength To Just Shave My Head? http://www.womenshairlossproject.com/hair-loss/shave-head-hair-loss/ A Community For Women Dealing With Hair Loss - Help, Hope and Understanding Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:11:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Kewpie http://www.womenshairlossproject.com/hair-loss/shave-head-hair-loss/#comment-4307 Kewpie Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:31:40 +0000 http://74.53.155.19/?p=41#comment-4307 Hello Y, I read this blog a lot, so I've read your posts. Do you still consider shaving your head? I'm at the beginning of the "hair loss adventure" as you call it. I think I can attribute it to birth control pills, which I'm on right now (ortho tri but I've been on a variety over the years). Looking back on your experience, what would you do differently? I've lived by the quote, "Twenty years from now, you will regret the things you didn't do rather than the things you did do" (Mark Twain!), so I wonder if I should just go off the pills and see if my shedding problem doesn't correct itselve. Hello Y,
I read this blog a lot, so I’ve read your posts. Do you still consider shaving your head?

I’m at the beginning of the “hair loss adventure” as you call it. I think I can attribute it to birth control pills, which I’m on right now (ortho tri but I’ve been on a variety over the years).

Looking back on your experience, what would you do differently? I’ve lived by the quote, “Twenty years from now, you will regret the things you didn’t do rather than the things you did do” (Mark Twain!), so I wonder if I should just go off the pills and see if my shedding problem doesn’t correct itselve.

]]> By: admin http://www.womenshairlossproject.com/hair-loss/shave-head-hair-loss/#comment-141 admin Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:41:48 +0000 http://74.53.155.19/?p=41#comment-141 Hi Julie - How much does reprieve cost? Hi Julie - How much does reprieve cost?

]]> By: julie http://www.womenshairlossproject.com/hair-loss/shave-head-hair-loss/#comment-140 julie Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:48:57 +0000 http://74.53.155.19/?p=41#comment-140 Why not try a wig? Reprieve is similar to a topper! It pulls your own hair through the piece (integration) and is taped together. You can do anything with this thing, its amazing! Its human hair! Why not try a wig? Reprieve is similar to a topper! It pulls your own hair through the piece (integration) and is taped together. You can do anything with this thing, its amazing! Its human hair!

]]> By: admin http://www.womenshairlossproject.com/hair-loss/shave-head-hair-loss/#comment-139 admin Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:08:05 +0000 http://74.53.155.19/?p=41#comment-139 The more I talk about it, the more I find myself thinking about it all day and in a really positive way. My mind is getting more comfortable with the idea. I actually think about how I would tell my family. I'd have to gather them all together and let them know what I was planning on doing, just appearing to a family dinner one night with a shaved head wouldn't go over well :) I prefer my days being filled with these type of thoughts than the days I just get so depressed about my hair loss and feel trapped. I also have thought a little about maybe getting a "topper" to conceal my hair loss, I go back and forth about thinking what I should do. But what does make me happy is that either of these choices and thoughts are very functionally proactive. They can happen. Its not a drug treatment where you hope and then get disappointed or have side effects etc. Drug treatments work sometimes, sometimes they don't, and in my case they don't anymore. But these choices "shaving" or "topper" have definitive outcomes. There is certainty, something I haven't had in so long. Talking about it has helped me tremendously in clearly out a lot of the negative thoughts (although they still creep in now and then) and allowing my mind to make way for new possibility. The more I talk about it, the more I find myself thinking about it all day and in a really positive way. My mind is getting more comfortable with the idea. I actually think about how I would tell my family. I’d have to gather them all together and let them know what I was planning on doing, just appearing to a family dinner one night with a shaved head wouldn’t go over well :)
I prefer my days being filled with these type of thoughts than the days I just get so depressed about my hair loss and feel trapped. I also have thought a little about maybe getting a “topper” to conceal my hair loss, I go back and forth about thinking what I should do. But what does make me happy is that either of these choices and thoughts are very functionally proactive. They can happen. Its not a drug treatment where you hope and then get disappointed or have side effects etc. Drug treatments work sometimes, sometimes they don’t, and in my case they don’t anymore. But these choices “shaving” or “topper” have definitive outcomes. There is certainty, something I haven’t had in so long. Talking about it has helped me tremendously in clearly out a lot of the negative thoughts (although they still creep in now and then) and allowing my mind to make way for new possibility.

]]> By: Elle http://www.womenshairlossproject.com/hair-loss/shave-head-hair-loss/#comment-138 Elle Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:18:25 +0000 http://74.53.155.19/?p=41#comment-138 Just do it, you're a strong woman, I know you can. Stop torturing yourself by putting it off. If you think it'll make you feel better and you want to do it, then do it! :) Elle. Just do it, you’re a strong woman, I know you can. Stop torturing yourself by putting it off. If you think it’ll make you feel better and you want to do it, then do it! :)
Elle.

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