Re: Loss of Body Hair


Voted # 1 for 4 consecutive years. Richard Farrell redefining non-surgical hair replacement !!

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Topic F198 - AGA - Androgenetic Alopecia (forum # 1)

From: Michelle D.
Date: 21 Jun 2001
Time: 05:03:33
Remote Name: 152.163.207.199

Comments

Hi Tig. Well, I don't think you are "evil". I think your style of speaking is blunt and that throws people off. But I don't want to get involved in that. Your viewpoints are yours and I respect that.

As for not believing 40% of the women will get AGA, I don't know. I do know that since this has started I have noticed A LOT of women with thinning hair, right down to my coworkers. I have seen severe cases and minor thinning. But I do notice SO MANY women every day. I live in NYC, so the population is high and every day on the street I see at least five women with a hair loss problem. My dear friend at work has thinning hair. I could see her scalp in the sun the other day. She knows my problem. I would NEVER tell her what I observed though. So, without knowing percentages I would say I SEE a lot of it.

I think that your participating in Locks of Love is wonderful. I cannot imagine being a child with the condition of AA, AU, AT. It has to be so devastating. They are so brave those little ones.

It sounds like your hair is coming back again. Do you think it is the high frequency current that is helping? Have you tried other methods in the past? You said you are taking iron. Is your ferritin low or your iron? You said you are not working because of the hair loss. I can understand how that could be hard being around "hair" all day. Do you have total recovery for periods of time? Or is it just one spot fills in and then another spot comes through. You said AD/alopecia difusa, does that mean that you have shedding at the same time all over your scalp? Just a thought, I wonder if CTE can be confused with AD. I am sure they can since the lines between all this hair loss stuff is thin.

Have you had your cortisol levels checked? Just curious because I have been readiing a lot about how important it is in the functioning of the body.

What did the doctors tell me I have? Good question. It started as TE. Years passed and it was "I don't know." Test after test after test. All normal. My hair shed for five years diffusly of a count of 200 plus a day. This past November increased again to 400 hairs a day. Started treatment with spiron. and bcps and I am seeing "Normal" shedding. The very most 100 hairs. Most times much less. So, the last thing a doctor said to me, my endo, after retesting the thyroids..."You have PCOS." I said "Impossible." But he explained that the term is broadened and includes problems with the ovaries, as in excessive androgen production. Now my blood work is fine in this area, so I guess I am just sensitive to androgens and he believes it is coming from my ovaries and not my adrenal gland. (I think the only way to truely know is to do a special test to see.) It doesn't really matter since things are working "RIGHT NOW" for me. So, I guess I have AGA. But I have to remind you that I was told TE. That is why I worry about people with TE for years and years and they do not do anything. So many of us are told TE and then it turns out down the road it is not true. (So I guess that issue can go both ways, don't you think?) I don't want to start up any controversy over this though. It's just my humble opinion and only that.

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