Comments on: What Women Can Do To Stop Hair Loss – Dr. Judith Reichman

By: DreaMeR

DreaMeR — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:28:44 +0000

Im 31 years old, happy, moody, energetic blob of person. I have noticed the middle parting is thinning (visible to me each time I see my reflection, than to others), but most of the people around me things im going psychotic, stressing about it so much.

I’ve had lush black silky hair & still have hair all the way up to my butt & I’ve always been obsessed with my hair since I was a little girl. Been nice to it, loved it, been thankful for it, and haven’t abused it much (except for tying a bun for longer hours).

So I cover my head at work which sums up to about 11 hours, but for about a year I’ve started having migraine headaches, period+cluster+tension headaches as per my doctor. The left temple is the epicentre of my migraines & interestingly (for me at least) the left hemisphere is also tingly at random times.

My doctor also boils down all my symptoms to stress, stress & stress. For the past 6 months, give or take, I’ve felt like the side parting seems to have expanded slightly closer to the hairline, after a month or two felt the middle parting seems to be doing a better split than the hair further down my scalp.

I worry easily & this has been taking a toll on me emotionally 🙁 Its very traumatizing & Im usually envied for my hair.

I’ve started oiling every week, started vitamin e tablets, had blood work done, plan on getting bangs so tying up my had doesn’t pull on the frontal hair, try to stress less… what can I do?!?! what else can be done 🙁 Im so afraid of loosing hair & before had any of this, I seriously sympathized with men who loose hair around their 30’s …so, cant be karma

Please helppp

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 03:40:18 +0000

I’ve been gradually shedding hair for over a year. It’s very very thin n the bang area. I can see my scalp big time. I’ve gone to my regular doctor several times a two different dermitologist. I hate washing and blow drying my hair because it causes me sooo much anxiety. I took anti depressants for years and I’ve been off of them for 2 years. I don’t know if that has anything to do with it or not. Doctors say it’s either stress or just age. All my blood tests are normal. They say try rogain, but I’m scared because there is a warning on the box that says u could possibly lose more hair before it starts to grow back. I know stressing over it makes it worse. I’ve use Nioxin, but that stuff makes my hair feel even thinner. I message my scalp a lot and take biotin everyday for a yr and see nothing. I can’t afford a transplant. Anyone else having these same issues?

By: KDC

KDC — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:30:43 +0000

You know, everywhere, I see people say, essentially, it takes 6 months from the stressor and then everything will be okay. Which stressor? my parents being diagnosed simultaneously with cancer, my pnuemonia, my adult onset asthma, the pulmonary emboli, the warfarin, the menstrual hemmohrages, or the eventual blood loss anemia, or my father’s death, or my stepmother’s abuse of me after his death. Or maybe from when my depression got really bad. Where do I count the months from? The first or the last, or does each one reset the clock? Or has the stress lasted so long that this is it, I should cut my hair short so that I don’t have to fucking look at it.

I am so sick of hearing give it six months. My hair was 41 inches long. I lost 50-70% of it in a couple of months. 6 months won’t make everything okay. It will take 6 FREAKING YEARS, if at all. And if we count from the blood transfusion, it’s been 8 months. I don’t see real growth. I can still see my scalp at my crown. and even if it had grown six inches, my hair would still look thin and pathetic.

I’d cut it off, but then I would be stuck looking at it more often.

By: Earnestine

Earnestine — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:01:29 +0000

I am a fifty year old young lady, my hair has been sheading alot it seems to
me for a year now. I am a black lady and I shampoo it every week, if not it
really starts to shead. Can you help me, I stop taking hormone therapy some
years ago. Its really thinning on the sides, bottom back and in top. any suggestion for hair expert in Augusta, Ga.

By: veronica

veronica — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:54:10 +0000

Looking for expert in women hair loss in Miami area, any recommendations?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:10:01 +0000

Could telogen effluvium be caused by a reaction to hair dye? For some silly reason, I dyed my hair 2 times in one month with permanent hair color, had never dyed it before, and now I am shedding a lot. Everyone-hairdressers, doctors, dermatologists, all tell me that dyeing hair will not make the hair come out from the root/follicle, and that this must be related to stress. I have been really anxious about why I dyed my hair in the first place, do you think this could be telogen effluvium?

By: Kay

Kay — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:27:11 +0000

I have “old lady” hair where it’s so thinned that you can see through it on top and it has a dry brittle texture. It has been like this since I was in my 20’s and just gets more hideous every year. It’s especially bad for me because I have a naturally large forehead like Christina Ricci and have to wear bangs. My bangs are so thin that I have to pull hair down from the top to make bangs which makes my top look flat and creates a hole that people notice. No doctor has an answer for me other than to laugh and say just be glad you don’t have cancer. I have never taken birth control and my iron levels are fine. Anyone else in the same boat?

By: amanda

amanda — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:24:03 +0000

My hair is thinning some but not that bad, but I dye my hair every 6 months and always have and I got a perm and then all the dead ends started to come till I had to get my hair cut up to the new began at and I had hair to my waist and now it is at my shoulder line and I’m very upset with this. Is their a treatment I can use that will help my hair to grow back healthier and longer and faster?
Enjoyed your article.

By: ellen

ellen — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:32:58 +0000

I am looking for a physician in the San Fernando Valley/ Los Angeles area specializing in female hair loss. Any suggestions?

By: sherry vannorstran

sherry vannorstran — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:16:19 +0000

what kind of hair loss is it when you are loosing it all around the middle of your head (sides and back are worse than the hair loss on top of head)?