Been Losing Hair For Past 2-3 Days At Kinda Crazy Rate? Posted: 03-26-06 22:24pm
Ok, im 19 years old. And for past 3-5
days ive been seeing that im losin hair,
especially on sides. Like sometimes when
I brush my hands through it, a piece will
come out, with the bulb attached to it.
My hair is gettin incredibly thin on top
too. Use to be thick like a week or so
ago, and like a few days ago it justs got
thinner. Now i'm beginning to think this.
I always wear a hat, have been for a few
months and possibly few years. I also
always use hair gel, and well I kinda use
hair gel and then put hat on.
I'm thinkin that ive put pressure onto it
too much. But would it go out at this
kinda rate. Its not too quickly. But I
fear in a month, i'll have a buzz
cut(which is fine, as long as it does look
retarded) or be bald. Which worries me,
but hey, dont have to shampoo much..Lolz)
anyways, would like to know idea's, ive
literally cried over it today :(
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ggloser
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Posts: 2 Location: Belleville
Posted: 03-28-06 11:11am
C'mon someone please answer me, I need
some help. All the stress is causin me to
have a flu...I think.
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bigman08
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Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 1
I Don't Know Posted: 09-05-06 07:34am
ggloser
wrote:
c'mon someone please answer
me, I need some help. All the stress is
causin me to have a flu...I
think.
does your scalp itch also? Because I
think I might be having the same problem
as you. My hair has been shedding and
itching like crazy and I don't know what
to do to stop it.
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Ash3r
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 3
Posted: 09-06-06 21:56pm
Im not sure if you two want to consider
hair treatment in asia, singapore, where
it is relatively cheap compared to us.
There's a hospital in singapore that
specialises in hair treatment/hair loss -
changi general hospital. Really effective
so I think you guys may want to consider
it.
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jheller
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Joined: 30 Sep 2006 Posts: 3
Hair Falling Out Posted: 09-30-06 11:39am
My hair started falling out 3 months ago.
I have lost at least two thirds of my
hair. It took 2 months to get an
appointment with a dermatologist so in the
meantime I tried every over the counter
product, although they did stop my scalp
from itching they did not stop the hair
loss. It ends up that in a biopsy I had
two things, telogen effluvium and
seborrheic dermatitis. The te is what is
causing the hair loss and can be caused by
hormones, change in diet, vitamin
defficency, surgury, stress or any major
or physical occurances in your life. I
could only trace mine to stress but stress
can cause vitamin b and other vitamin
defficiencies. When you go on a search
for te (telogen effluvium) it states that
if you pull at several strands of hair and
they come out with a bulb at the end it is
te. It also states that the hair loss is
sudden. If you can find out what is
causing it you can correct it and the hair
will stop falling out. The seborrheic
dermatitis is often caused by biotin
defficiency, another b vitamin, and it is
the cause of the scalp itching. I am now
trying a more natural route with golden
seal and comprey. My hair loss has
stopped but it has not started to grow
back yet. I will continue to research and
take my vitamins. My dermatologist
suggested rogain for women which I am
going to pass on.
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Joshua
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Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 9
Same Experience Posted: 01-12-07 10:57am
Hi,
i wanted to say I know how hard it is to
go through this. You are not the only
one. I have been through the same
period. I started losing hair when I was
17, and now I am 22. Mental depression,
dissatisfaction with everything. You
name it...
Just wanted to tell you how I have been
able to stop my hair loss and start some
growth. I have started using provillus
it has changed my life. It is an herbal
product and in one month stopped the hair
loss and a little after 2 months I started
to see the hair growth.
*edited by admin* ~ **** do not adverstise
***
joshua
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spectermonkey
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Dec 2006 Posts: 59 Location: Somewhere
K... Posted: 03-13-07 19:34pm
K, first...a few of those replies that
came before were spam. Just to put that
out there...
Okay back to my reply:
You said you started seeing major hair
loss over a few days?
K, noboody goes bald in a few days..or
even a few weeks.
It takes months for the hair to start to
heavily fall out.
Balding is very much a slow eventual
process... unless you're on chemotherapy.
But I'll assume you aren't, since you
didn't mention anything regarding cancer
or chemotherapy.
K, so...
you said you saw "pieces" of hair falling
out.
what in the flaming hell is a piece of
hair? Single hairs with bulbs attached?
Several hairs?
If it's single hairs, you're getting
yourself sick with worry over nothing.
Everybody loses hair! The average person
(this is ANY human being with hair on
their head), loses about 50-150 hairs a
day.
Unless you're able to pull out large thick
chunks of hair out of your head with
minimal effort or discomfort, you're not
going bald.
And as for the thin on the top and front,
I have the same thing as you.
Sometimes people just have thinner hair on
the top and front of their heads.
It varies for each person. It's a very bad
idea to wear a hat a lot. that could be
part of the problem. Another thing is the
umm...what else..hmm
Well, that's it, basically.
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Abnomaly
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Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 11
Re: K... Posted: 07-01-07 13:30pm
spectermonkey
wrote:
K, first...a few of those
replies that came before were spam. Just
to put that out there...
Okay back to my reply:
You said you started seeing major hair
loss over a few days?
K, noboody goes bald in a few days..or
even a few weeks.
It takes months for the hair to start to
heavily fall out.
Balding is very much a slow eventual
process... unless you're on chemotherapy.
But I'll assume you aren't, since you
didn't mention anything regarding cancer
or chemotherapy.
K, so...
you said you saw "pieces" of hair falling
out.
what in the flaming hell is a piece of
hair? Single hairs with bulbs attached?
Several hairs?
If it's single hairs, you're getting
yourself sick with worry over nothing.
Everybody loses hair! The average person
(this is ANY human being with hair on
their head), loses about 50-150 hairs a
day.
Unless you're able to pull out large thick
chunks of hair out of your head with
minimal effort or discomfort, you're not
going bald.
And as for the thin on the top and front,
I have the same thing as you.
Sometimes people just have thinner hair on
the top and front of their heads.
It varies for each person. It's a very bad
idea to wear a hat a lot. that could be
part of the problem. Another thing is the
umm...what else..hmm
Well, that's it,
basically.
I think im having the same problem. Like,
when i brush my hair with my fingers, and
clamp it with my fist (not very hard) and
i pull (not very hard) i see like 3-5
strands of hair between my fingers. On
average, if you lose more than 50 strands
a day your going bald, and i notice i lose
that much and more. Also, i notice that my
head is also itchy. Can a dermatologist
actually help wtih the balding and hair
loss issues? and because a persons head is
itchy, would it be possible that the
person has lice?
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spectermonkey
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Dec 2006 Posts: 59 Location: Somewhere
Re: K... Posted: 07-01-07 13:48pm
Abnomaly
wrote:
spectermonkey
wrote:
K, first...a few of those
replies that came before were spam. Just
to put that out there...
Okay back to my reply:
You said you started seeing major hair
loss over a few days?
K, noboody goes bald in a few days..or
even a few weeks.
It takes months for the hair to start to
heavily fall out.
Balding is very much a slow eventual
process... unless you're on chemotherapy.
But I'll assume you aren't, since you
didn't mention anything regarding cancer
or chemotherapy.
K, so...
you said you saw "pieces" of hair falling
out.
what in the flaming hell is a piece of
hair? Single hairs with bulbs attached?
Several hairs?
If it's single hairs, you're getting
yourself sick with worry over nothing.
Everybody loses hair! The average person
(this is ANY human being with hair on
their head), loses about 50-150 hairs a
day.
Unless you're able to pull out large thick
chunks of hair out of your head with
minimal effort or discomfort, you're not
going bald.
And as for the thin on the top and front,
I have the same thing as you.
Sometimes people just have thinner hair on
the top and front of their heads.
It varies for each person. It's a very bad
idea to wear a hat a lot. that could be
part of the problem. Another thing is the
umm...what else..hmm
Well, that's it,
basically.
I think im having the same problem. Like,
when i brush my hair with my fingers, and
clamp it with my fist (not very hard) and
i pull (not very hard) i see like 3-5
strands of hair between my fingers. On
average, if you lose more than 50 strands
a day your going bald, and i notice i lose
that much and more. Also, i notice that my
head is also itchy. Can a dermatologist
actually help wtih the balding and hair
loss issues? and because a persons head is
itchy, would it be possible that the
person has
lice?
Well, as far as I know there's not much of
a relation.
but I'd like to think there might be?
Not really.
I have an extremely itchy scalp.
Very thin hair on the top and front and
have similar problems when I comb mine
back and grasp it.
What I think though, is that my problem is
just htat my hair sucks.
I was completely bald as a child up until
I was almost 2 years old. I've always had
it cut very short and off my forehead
until about 11th grade, when it started to
grow and I left it.
Even then it looked thin and bad, and I
was embarrassed to have it so long.
I grew it somewhat long afterwards, and
still it looked bad.
I also went through my chilldhood thinking
that it looked bad to shampoo my hair...so
often I didn't wash it and it go
especially oily looking.
Then, in grade 12, i tried to dye it
black. 4 times with store-bought dye,
which it didn't take.
Then I went to th hairdresser, got a
haircut and dyed it completely black for
the 5th time, and I noticed the rate at
which it fell out was beginning to
accelerate.
It really started to come out in the first
year of university and the summer that
preceeded it.
Mostly since then my worries of going bald
have dissipated, but it's still thinner
and less robust and all-there, than it
used to be.
It's grown back somewhat since my first
year of university ended, but that doesn't
help much.
It's still thin and the suffering I
endured when I thought it was falling out
was enough to make it a miserable
troublesome year, in which I was probablby
the most self-conscious in years. Probably
the most self-conscious ever.
I used to plan my day around making sure
my hair didn't look indicative of a
blading person.
I used to skip working out and running
because I was too afraid of what the
result of all the sweating would do to my
hair...I was afraid that might expose some
of the veins of scalp that were visible
under my hair line.
It's not going to be nearly as thick as it
was before.
And I'll admit...with the way I treated
it, I probably deserve to go bald.
It's a doing it bad idea to not wash it
more than once every couple of weeks when
you're a child...and then dye it black
(when it's naturally brown...light brown)
to begin with. Not to mention how i
straightened it every day for aesthetic
purposes, because it's curly.
And then when it seemed like it was going
to fall out, I started stuffing it under a
hat...Another real bad idea.
And now?
Well I just comb it over my forehead and
keep it short.
Every once in a while someone will take a
picture from a bad angle, or I'll see
myself in strong fluorescent light from
directly above or all aorund, that'll
remind me that it's never gonna be the way
it was before...
But I don't let that get me down much.
It's still there, and peopple assure me
that as long as I don't do something
stupid like start smoking weed or trying
to dye it or modify it in some unnatural
way, again, it's not going to end up
falling out any faster than it should.
What I reecommend you do is wash your hair
every day.
that's what I do. Even every second day.
Don't dye it.
NEVER dye it.
Permanent or impermanent dyes, no matter
what the company claims, that sells them
are homicide for your hair.
Comb it every morning.
I had itchy scalp problems that dissipated
significantly once I started combing my
hair before I shower every morning.
Dont' wear hats too long or too often.
And don't go around grasping hair often.
that's a bad idea...clinching your hair in
your hands or whatever it was that you
described yourself doing.
Aside from those tips, that's about all
the ideas i can give you.
Maybe get a nice short haircut too.
Chicks aren't into guys with really long
hair.
I learned that that hard way.
Hehehehhe.
anyways, good luck, bud
-peace
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Tmddyan
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Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 4349 Location: post falls, id usa
Thanks: 93
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Hey Posted: 07-01-07 13:56pm
try kombucha---it made my hair thick
again. and it made my mothers grow back
she has thinning hair.
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Abnomaly
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 11
Re: Hey Posted: 07-01-07 14:04pm
dyanmatteson
wrote:
try kombucha---it made my
hair thick again. and it made my mothers
grow back she has thinning
hair.
Is that a shampoo, or conditioner?
Thanks spectormonkey for the advice. A
couple of my friends also experienced
hairloss, and they said that some
conditioners actually treat hair loss..
Nissim or nioxin. those are conditioners.
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Tmddyan
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Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 4349 Location: post falls, id usa
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Hey Posted: 07-01-07 14:09pm
actually its neither---its a tea that you
drink---you can do a google search on it.
its wonderful stuff.
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teanswers
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Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2
Te Confusion Posted: 07-02-07 09:34am
Hoping someone can help me out with this.
Starting around February or March, my hair
began thinning out rather drastically. In
the shower, there were just a ton more
hairs coming out in the shampoo than
normal. My hair loss has been pretty
constant since.
I went vegetarian in February, so I just
assumed that caused my hair loss. I went
to two dermatologists - one said it was
telogen effluvium and things would go back
to normal in 6 months, and another said
that it wasn't (but he barely even looked
at my head at all).
I know the timing may not work out
perfectly, but I am still assuming it is
TE because EVERY hair that falls out,
whether it be a thick, long one, or a
thin, short one, has the white bulb on the
end.
My two questions are: if all the hairs
that are falling out are telogen, then is
it definitely TE? And, around a month or
more ago, I started eating a better
balanced diet, and taking iron, biotin,
and multi-vitamins, but my hair loss
hasn't subsided at all. Does that mean
anything?
Thanks for any help...
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Ombranymous
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Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 4
Same Problrm Posted: 07-14-07 20:58pm
I'm having the exact same issue...white
bulbs and all. I can pinch any small
section of hair on my head and without any
force easily end up with two to five
strands of hair falling out. It's been
going on for about a week and I'm
extremely concerned - I'm losing almost
200, 250 strands a day. Does this end or
fix itself? I don't need this...{sad sigh}
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usernameisme
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Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 4
Help! Posted: 10-01-07 03:53am
oh man, reading these makes me feel
somewhat relieved. For the past week or
so, my hair has excessively been falling
out. Whenever I grasp it, 2-3 hairs will
come out, usually with the bulb. I've
noticed at the top of my head.... My part
looks bigger. But, I can't decided if I am
just being paranoid.... I don't take real
good care of my hair... I
shampoo/condition it 2-3 times a week, and
never brush it. Usually i'll straighten my
bangs, and lightly run through some
strands... But I can't imagine that doing
any harm. Also I went on a healthy
nutritional diet last month, and lost 5
pounds... could the weight loss be a
factor of my hair falling out?
I'm afraid I am going bald, but my hair
still seems thick, except for my part...
(maybe i've never noticed it before)
What do you think?
It's really freaking me out.
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blissfulriver
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Joined: 04 Nov 2007 Posts: 1
Re: Losing Hair At Crazy Rate Posted: 11-04-07 16:15pm
Have you had your thyroid checked?
Sometimes a low functioning thyroid can
lead to hair loss. Also, the adrenal
glands can cause hair loss. High stress
for prolonged periods of time is also a
major culprit. Have you been under
anesthesia for any surgeries in the past
few months?? These are some of the areas
I would be exploring. If the hair loss is
being caused by an underlying medical
condition, you need to address the medical
condition.
