yeah, that's how it is for us girls. I'm sorry that you feel that way, for I was always happy to save at least a little bit of something a little bit everywhere, but you're right, once the skin shines through the hair it looks pretty awful and I know about all the "bald from a distance look
good luck!
good luck!
I suffer from postpartum alopecia. I've been pregnant 3 times and it became worse with every birth, started earlier each time, lasted longer and I lose more hair each time. I was told the 1. time not to worry, that it would all grow back. Well, it didn't and the hairlosses of the 3 shedding periods added together make me look almost bald. My husband says it's my badge of honor as a mom and I don't regret anything of course but I don't understand why I have to go through this. I met a lot of women who lost hair after having given birth to their children but never someone who lost her hair for good. I don't have any excessive hairloss in between. Shedding started 4 months after birth the 1. time (3 months, the 2. time and 6 weeks this time) and it lasted for 3, 5 and 8 months. I have more or less 20% of my hair left. Anyone else going through this ordeal?
I suffer from postpartum alopecia. I've been pregnant 3 times and it became worse with every birth, started earlier each time, lasted longer and I lose more hair each time. I was told the 1. time not to worry, that it would all grow back. Well, it didn't and the hairlosses of the 3 shedding periods added together make me look almost bald. My husband says it's my badge of honor as a mom and I don't regret anything of course but I don't understand why I have to go through this. I met a lot of women who lost hair after having given birth to their children but never someone who lost her hair for good. I don't have any excessive hairloss in between. Shedding started 4 months after birth the 1. time (3 months, the 2. time and 6 weeks this time) and it lasted for 3, 5 and 8 months. I have more or less 20% of my hair left. Anyone else going through this ordeal?
hi, guest, this sounds pretty awful and I feel with you. I mean I'm not in your situation but my sister is and I'm losing hair also. We both have very fair and very thin hair from the beginning and for both of us it started getting even thinner in our early 20ies. I'm 23 so it only started for me but I can notice it already. Simone is 32 she's gone a long way already. After having her child she suffered from severe postpartum alopecia and it didn't all grow back and afterwards the "normal" hair thinning resumed for her. I feel it's a good thing that we women don't get a real bald spot like men and even with less hair my sister is still feminine and beautiful. She can still do ponytails etc. even if her skin shows . She usually wears her hair loose and then it's only like a large parting and no volume but since she's very fair almost white you don't notice it that much. It's worst when it's wet anyway. So good luck to you.
hi, guest
i've only had one kid, no history of alopecia before, but serious shedding starting 2 months after end of pregnancy and only very little growing back
I'd say I've lost 25% of my hair to my kid
that was 4 years ago, I was 35
it was last minute because 1 year later premature menopause set in
I started losing hair again
i've only had one kid, no history of alopecia before, but serious shedding starting 2 months after end of pregnancy and only very little growing back
I'd say I've lost 25% of my hair to my kid
that was 4 years ago, I was 35
it was last minute because 1 year later premature menopause set in
I started losing hair again
I've never had very full and strong hair but I feel that it's getting thinner in the front. Also I find a lot of hairs on my pillow and in my shower. I don't dare tell anyone least of all my boyfriend. He told me the other day jokingly that I looked like I was balding when he saw me come out of the shower with my hair all wet and hanging down. I tried to laugh it off not daring to say that he might actually be right. I checked with a mirror and you see a lot of my skin up to the center of my head through my hair. My front hairs are short and won't grow long anymore and there's a spot where the hairline has clearly a hole. In the evening of the same day my boyfriend stroked my hair and said that he actually believed my front hairline has receded then he checked all of my head I tried to stop him but he wouldn't be and he seemed very moved and kissed me and hugged me. I know he's very selfconscious about his own premature hairloss and it might comfort him that I follow suit I don't know. Anyway I'm desperate what to do.
Never could anyone explain this to me either. They call it "male pattern" and yet it follows a very different pattern except eventually for the remaining crown. I would have preferred to lose hair the way a man does and to be able to comb the front hair over the bald spot on top. Instead of that like yours it's thinning everywhere. I don't even believe I'll get really bald I think it's just going to stop at some time and I will have this thin and short hair everywhere. Mine aren't even growing really long anymore. I cannot tie them together because it looks awful and if I let them loose (what I do) you see skin everywhere. Being blonde doesn't help of course. This is such a nightmare.
My hair is not exactly thinning but I have very little hair. Well at one point after puberty it was also thinning for a couple of years but then it stopped again. I have also very little body hair, which is the best part of my condition of course. But I can completely relate to what you're going through. For one my front hairline is not well defined and you can completely see through as if I was actually balding and also my parting is wide however I comb my hair. My mum was the same but she lost hair after pregnancy and again after menopause and at 48 is practically bald on top of her head. I am afraid this is what it will be like for me too.
you seem to have that time bomb set just like everyone of us here but in a different way only
how old are you? did you always have little hair, even as a child?
I used to have a high forehead but that's just the way my hair was, my mother's frontline also was kind of remote, beyond where the head already gets round, and my hair seemed full because it was very curly, I always knew it was not that thick but it looked like thick
towards the end of puberty I lost hair on my temples and my frontline receded and I thought of course I was going to lose it like a man, I witnessed that in my brother who is only 3 years older than me but an early bald, I checked the top of my head were my brother was developing a bald spot and also my parting all the time but except for the front nothing seemed to change and than that also stopped and I relaxed. But when I was 17 my front line became uncertain, you could see a lot of skin under the hairs and I noticed that I was developing a whole triangle, from the front to the middle of my head were my hair was thinning. My hairstylist told me about the Christmas tree pattern and that this was probably not going to stop but that it could drag out for years on end he was right. But by the age of 24 I had reached a point were I felt it was impossible to go on like that, I had not much hair left on top of my head, I had cut it short already 2 years before because it looked fuller that way but the trick didn't work anymore. My brother was bald for a year already and he had started to shave the remaining crown of hairs and one day I decided do to the same. I did it for over a year but I never could get used to my bald head, so I let my hair grow again. I then noticed that I had practically no hair left on top. Today I wear my hair as long as possible. The hairs on top of my head wouldn't grow long anymore but I've still got a high crown, especially on the back of my head, even if that's thinning too. It looks weird of course but it would anyway.
how old are you? did you always have little hair, even as a child?
I used to have a high forehead but that's just the way my hair was, my mother's frontline also was kind of remote, beyond where the head already gets round, and my hair seemed full because it was very curly, I always knew it was not that thick but it looked like thick
towards the end of puberty I lost hair on my temples and my frontline receded and I thought of course I was going to lose it like a man, I witnessed that in my brother who is only 3 years older than me but an early bald, I checked the top of my head were my brother was developing a bald spot and also my parting all the time but except for the front nothing seemed to change and than that also stopped and I relaxed. But when I was 17 my front line became uncertain, you could see a lot of skin under the hairs and I noticed that I was developing a whole triangle, from the front to the middle of my head were my hair was thinning. My hairstylist told me about the Christmas tree pattern and that this was probably not going to stop but that it could drag out for years on end he was right. But by the age of 24 I had reached a point were I felt it was impossible to go on like that, I had not much hair left on top of my head, I had cut it short already 2 years before because it looked fuller that way but the trick didn't work anymore. My brother was bald for a year already and he had started to shave the remaining crown of hairs and one day I decided do to the same. I did it for over a year but I never could get used to my bald head, so I let my hair grow again. I then noticed that I had practically no hair left on top. Today I wear my hair as long as possible. The hairs on top of my head wouldn't grow long anymore but I've still got a high crown, especially on the back of my head, even if that's thinning too. It looks weird of course but it would anyway.
Long before my sister started to lose hair, her hair stopped growing, I mean that her front hair line and than a whole patch of hair in the middle of her forehead wouldn't grow anymore as long as the others. That was well before she noticed that her hairline was receding and then she lost hair also in the middle where it was short and it stopped not growing anymore along her parting backwards and the process continued in this way. She lost her hair starting from the front in a triangular shape towards the top of her head. It still goes on for more and more hair stays short and will certainly also fall out. Now I notice that I have also hairs in front which are way shorter than the rest and I'm afraid that I will go bald also. Is there a relation? Is that really how it starts?
my hair has always been on the thin side and because it is fair it seemed all the more scarce. now for a couple of years I notice that I'm actually losing it. My hairdresser says these things may come and go but he also told me that he hadn't seen often a pattern like mine and that he didn't know what to make of it. My hairline is receding, it is v-shaped and on my temples I have lost all my hair and the rest is thinning all over except for a crown around my head. It actually follows the pattern of a male getting bald except that I don't have the bald spot on top. Nobody else in my family has hair problems (I mean no other woman, for my father and my brother are both bald and have been so at an early age, my father in his mid-30ies, my brother by the end of his 20ies), I don't have any other hair related problem, I'm not hirsute or anything (actually I'm more on the other side with only very little body hair). I(m afraid that my hairloss won't stop.
I'm a girl, 17 years old, and I shed a lot of hair as of recently. Who's had the same problem? What can I do?
Unlike most of you I am dark haired, I grew a lot of body hair and I grew it quite early and towards the end of puberty I also grew some face and chest hair. Later in my 20ies I started losing hair on my head, no tree pattern, no ill defined front hairline but a general thinning on a very large spot on top of my head. Minoxidil kind of slowed it down but it's still progressing slowly and except for a high crown all around my head (not like a man's, because it's really higher on the rear) and a 1-2 cm front line I have very few hairs left on my head and most of these won't grow long anymore, so I'm probably one step away from bald. It's really weird to experience this, I feel like it's not really me, like I'm an exterior witness to it all. I've got a brother and a sister, my sister who's 25 (5 years younger than me) still has a full head of hair and no body hair problem either whereas my brother has grown hair everywhere even on his back and started balding when he was 19, to be fully bald at 23.