Recently I was diagnosed with deficiency of iron so it’s been a week I am taking iron supplements along with biotin and I have seen new growth in a week, no kidding!! Plus I’m regularly putting minoxidil 5% for a month now.

Hope this helps you too

It’s pooja again…. Just wanted to update on my situation with alopecia. I haven’t lost the hair I grew back last year…. But I have had new patches -over 2. My dad is a positive guy he says may be this is how you will heal completely, well, that’s my dad just not wanting me to lose hope. Well also last week I saw a couple of hair strands on the patches I developed in 2012. I hope I slowly recover from alopecia soon. Also I am using q sera serum for the last 4 weeks, will tell u if it’s helping me. I have started taking biotin capsules as well for a week now. Will tell you if it helps.

i’m Erin a 19 year old female… I started to have these bald spots on back of my head since 2009, when i was 14 year old.. I didn’t suspect anything at first but it became bigger as time passed by and my friends at school noticed it, so I told my father and he drove me to the hospital, the medical assistant gave me some kind of medicines, I forgot their names and my hair grew back. I was really happy then but it came back the next year, the medical assistant consulted me to the doctor because i had Thyroid back then, But the doctors didn’t prescribe me any medicines and said that it was due to oftenly hair styling e.g hair dye and rebonding which I’m not that often as they thought! yea I got scolded by the doctor..

Later on, my Thyroid just disappear without taking any medicine, so I guess it was not a Thyroid and my hair grew back within a year! But at a slower rate than before. Guess what, it came back again.. you know what hair means to girls, I have to change my hairstyle and the most devastating thing is, I cannot do anything other than waiting patiently for my precious hair to grow back.

In a nutshell, my bald spot never go on back of my head now, the hair grew back but at a very slow rate and another bald spot occur… I’m trying to keep calm but now that its been 7 years, I started crying at nights and hoping that someone can find it cure. I envy the people around me, so that’s why I hate if someone touch my hair or walk behind me, cause they’ll definitely see it! But I’m not letting this matter to affect me. I’m going to be as positive and cheerful as I am right now! <_<

But still, just reading and thinking the fact that I'm likely going to completely bald someday makes me scared, terrified and upset cause I'm still young! I'd rather diagnosed with Thyroid than having these bald spots that has no cure! Honestly, my confident level goes down. Please someone find it cure soon…

Prior to hair loss I had a lung infection which persisted since 2012 July when I first had it until April last year. Amoxillin(antibiotic) injections and tablets form the hospital were useless, until I went to a private doctor for treatment. He then prescribed some medication which relieved me of pain. Today I still somehow feel a poky pain on the left lung were the infection initially started from time to time when I am tired.

The infection started I believe because I was working in a clothing factory rich in fabric dust and dust itself. I stopped exercising when I was 18 years old. I have noticed that my wife has developed Trachyonychia which is sort of unhealthy nails for about 5 months.

After going through alot of reading and understanding I now think that the cause of it is as specified in sites and book, immune disorders and body reactions. I read somewhere that our body uses oxidative stress to curb infections pathogens. Another word for oxidative stress would be free radicals. To put the final piece of the puzzle i read today that, our immune system uses oxidative stress to manage with foreign beings in our body, but at a certain level, when it is high, it actually causes problems of auto immunity. Alopecia areata(what i suffer from) and Trachyonychia are forms of auto-immune diseases . To curb free radicals we need to detox, exercise and so on. Now I am yet to get a checkup form a dermatologist, but I will have to get a detox,consider strength excercise and other health eating tips. I will keep you guys posted if I come right.
I encourage you guys to keep your mind strong. Remember the greatest power is willpower. Do not lose hope.

I was diagnosed with alopecia in 2012, it began with a loss of hair in a small batch and because I didn’t care much abt it, it slowly grew and soon I lost the complete hair line from the back, I consulted a dermatoligist last year in 2013 and she suggested me to go for steroids injection at the affected area and I regained 20% of my hair loss in the first month itself,I was also given an oral medicine called Zempred which is to be taken 2 time twice in a week ( pls take thi medicine only after consulting with a doctor) along wit this she also gave me some anti depressants, I took the steroid shots in a gap of 1 month, minoxidil did not suit me at all, it gave me rashes so I didn’t put it frequently, it’s Feb 2014 and I have regained 60% of my hairloss. I’m focussing on eating right , having a healthier diet and avoiding fried food or junk food, it is also very important for us to do some yoga or walk for atleast 20 to 25 minutes or do some form of exercise. Also I’m doing hair massage with mustard oil once in a week, don’t use chemicals at all. Eat handful of nuts everyday. Rest be positive because this phase will pass by, don’t lose ur confidence ????

jessica from tucson az

Thank you kindly,

Amy

I have been diagnosed with alopecia areata in 2008, though I can remember I had a tiny bald spot in the back of my head and another one in the right wrist since 2005, which were not very relevant, so I did not asked for a medical opinion. But suddenly, and in a very aggressive way, they started to expand, and new patches appeared in my head, beard and eyebrows. Eventually, I had no hair at all in my arms, legs and chest, and I started to think that i should do something. Then I went to a dermatologist. Blood analyses were completely ok, and she prescribed a topic steroid ointment that didn’t work at all, and made me lost a precious time. Then I visited another dermatologist, who was quite dedicated to this condition (and also vitiligo), and he prescribed intramuscular steroid shots. The results were quick and very satisfactory, though I was always reluctant to be administered this kind of drugs due to the side effects they have on the bones and the calcium absorption. Anyway, I unerwent the treatment and soon my eyebrows got repoblated, my eyelashes regrown, my beard looked normal again and the patches in my head were also regrowing. Doctor considered I was nearly cured, so i started withdrawing treatment following his instructions spacing out the frequency of the shots, since it could not be abruptly withdrawed. But unfortunately, i could see that, one month and half after i was given my last shot, I started to lose all the regained hair… Now i’m on my second cycle of steroids, and now i am even more reluctant than i was before this experience, because i guess my hair may fall again when i finished the treatment.

I have searching on the pubmed, forums, and other sources for an alternative treatment, and I have found out some trials pointing out that there might be a connection between celiac disease and alopecia areata. I also read the testimony of some people telling their own experience, in which, after some months of a gluten and dairy free diet, alopecia areata symptoms totally disappeared. This means that alopecia areata can has some alimentary basis, and thus, we must reorganize our daily diet.

Just to put me to the test (to see if could carry out a diet like that), I’m currently avoiding any food containing gluten, and trying to reduce the ingestion of dairy. I’ve been doing like this for 2 months, and my hair is regrowing, but i suppose it’s because of the shots. Anyway, I have noticed my skin looks much healthier. My skin tends to be oily, and my back had always little red spots, like a microacne. Now all these little marks have nearly disappeared. I often had slow digestion (and that used to make me feel tired), but i could never relate it to a certain type of food, and now this problem is also gone.

I cannot assure that alopecia areata can be cured by following a dairy and gluten free diet, but I have realized that some dermatologist are prescribing this instructions. So I can only highlight that there could be a relationship on what we eat and what it is happening to us.

Hope all this can be useful to you somehow.

Take care everyone.
Mike