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.

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.

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.

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.


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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

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.

actually its neither---its a tea that you drink---you can do a google search on it. its wonderful stuff.

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...

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}

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.

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.