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  • Alison H.
    WHI Lead Administrator
    • Aug 2019
    • 312

    Originally posted by Wednesday L.F.
    I really hate it. It just makes me feel self-conscious and ugly—which is the part I’d most like to get over. I’m sort of a hat person now.
    For what it's worth, you look great in a hat! (Seriously, your hats are adorable.)

    I get what you mean though. It really does make you self-conscious. I don't know if it's this notion that as women we're supposed to have thick, luxurious hair or what, but at the same time, your hair is one of the first things people see when they look at you.

    I've gotten crafty at the use of little butterfly clips (to craftily pin sections of hair just so, covering any thin spots that poke out if I pull my hair back) and I've sort of resigned myself to the fact that my current hair length (shoulder length) is about as long as I'm going to be able to let it grow.

    I have dreams of wearing long hair again, but with my curls, when it is shorter, it covers better. I cut off about 10 inches of hair at the start of this year because I realized that when my hair was pulled into a ponytail, the bottom six inches were about the width of my pinkie finger.

    I have been sticking with taking my stupid horse vitamins though.

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    • amy40
      Veteran Member
      • Nov 2016
      • 2732


      for me I think it could be stress unless it's low thyroid
      I look back at pics from 10 years ago & my hair was so lovely & now it's so sad to see what's happened to it

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      • helenamich87
        Junior Member
        • Jul 2022
        • 3

        I'm not sure what dermaroller I used.

        I know I don't come by often. It's because there really STILL isn't that much I can do with my hair due to the taper. The taper is STILL quite huge because, YES, my hair is STILL getting thicker! It's not been a little more than 2 years that I have been treating my hairloss. My hair has now reached 4.5" thickness. It was at 2.5" when I began measuring, after I noticed that it was thickening up. I literally have 3.24 times more hair than when I began treatment!


        My rate of hairfall has increased from the abnormally low rate that it fell to about 6 months after I began treatment of under 10 hairs a day to a normal and healthy sort of rate of 25-30 hairs per day. I still do have young hairs that fall more than they should in ratio to the older/longer hairs, so it's obviously a medicated head that's growing hair! lol


        Every so often people ask if it's still working. Yes, it is. You can still see where I started to use treatments almost as a line on my braid.


        Yes, I'm continuing to grow new hair. No, I don't know when it will peter out. The drugs can't stimulate new follicles to be created. It can only tell sleeping follicles to make terminal hair!

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        • Anouarbarack
          Junior Member
          • Sep 2022
          • 5

          I had problems with hair and skin rashes and didn't pay attention to them for a long time. As a result, when I did an ultrasound of the thyroid gland, I had multiple thyroid cysts, which caused many aesthetic and physiological problems.

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          • Anouarbarack
            Junior Member
            • Sep 2022
            • 5

            Originally posted by Anouarbarack
            I had problems with hair and skin rashes and didn't pay attention to them for a long time. As a result, when I did an ultrasound of the thyroid gland, I had multiple thyroid cysts, which caused many aesthetic and physiological problems.
            As a result, when I did an ultrasound of the thyroid gland, I had multiple thyroid cysts, which caused many aesthetic and physiological problems. I underwent a long hormone therapy process and it thinned my hair. I recently went through a hair transplant to feel more confident. I am very sorry that I did not go to the doctor immediately when the problems appeared.
            Last edited by Alison H.; 09-07-2022, 08:35 AM. Reason: Outbound links not permitted.

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            • Guest

              Well it's a natural phenomenon that everyone loss hair during as they getting old or that might be due the genetically or might be due the diet but you don't be worry too much about it you can have hair loss treatment that recover your hair naturally.

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              • Guest

                Yes as you are growing old with the passage of time your hair starts to receding and you feel like receding hair line that cause of hair loss but it can be prevent by herbal and medicated stuff..

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                • Felicity
                  Junior Member
                  • Dec 2022
                  • 1

                  when I've had bloodwork done, my vitamin D levels were practically nonexistent (severely deficient). From the studies I've read, they're not sure if thyroid issues worsen vitamin D absorption or if a lack of vitamin D worsens thyroid issues. They are related, but the connection is unclear. In my case, the supplement really helps when my hair starts thinning. (And man, sometimes it REALLY thins... right now I seem to be on an upswing; lots of baby hairs growing back in LOL)

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                  • amy40
                    Veteran Member
                    • Nov 2016
                    • 2732

                    saw a specialist in Dec
                    medicine will arrive in the mail this week
                    hoping it will bring some hair back
                    (the Dr asked about my hair as I was wearing a hat)
                    I also qualify for medical marijuana which I plan to get for pain relief

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                    • eliananelson
                      Junior Member
                      • Jul 2021
                      • 5

                      Low thyroid is one of the most common causes of hair thinning. Since balance and proper amounts of both male and female hormones are needed for healthy hair growth and maintenance, it is important to have your thyroid checked by a doctor if you notice any changes in your scalp.

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