Did your white hair stay white? - Alopecia World2024-03-29T14:03:09Zhttps://alopeciaworld.com/forum/topics/did-your-white-hair-stay-white?feed=yes&xn_auth=noI may have more than one type…tag:alopeciaworld.com,2015-01-04:2022678:Comment:12358342015-01-04T18:26:41.440ZGardenJesshttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/GardenJess
<p>I may have more than one type of white hair, but most of mine is sturdy white hair that has been growing for months and must be terminal hairs. My sparsely growing hairs are finer than the thickly growing patches, but seem to be growing rather than falling out.</p>
<p>I may have more than one type of white hair, but most of mine is sturdy white hair that has been growing for months and must be terminal hairs. My sparsely growing hairs are finer than the thickly growing patches, but seem to be growing rather than falling out.</p> What hair I do have (sparsely…tag:alopeciaworld.com,2015-01-04:2022678:Comment:12360502015-01-04T18:10:51.254ZT (Rock Chick)https://alopeciaworld.com/profile/RockChick
<p>What hair I do have (sparsely growing) is also white (except for some patches that are practically black!) I have heard that when/if hair grows back it is typically white or can grow back entirely different from the hair you used to have (like curly if it was straight or color-wise differently). My hair was always a light/golden brown... now it's either dark dark brown/black or white. Crazy!</p>
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<p>What hair I do have (sparsely growing) is also white (except for some patches that are practically black!) I have heard that when/if hair grows back it is typically white or can grow back entirely different from the hair you used to have (like curly if it was straight or color-wise differently). My hair was always a light/golden brown... now it's either dark dark brown/black or white. Crazy!</p>
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Mine were temporary cle…tag:alopeciaworld.com,2014-12-29:2022678:Comment:12346152014-12-29T14:47:01.396ZPamFitros@boldlybaldwomen.comhttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/PamFitrosboldlybaldwomencom
<p>ADML,</p>
<p>Mine were <em>temporary</em> clear hair - gone a few days after they grew in.</p>
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<p>Mine were <em>temporary</em> clear hair - gone a few days after they grew in.</p>
<p>Pam</p> These "white hairs" are they…tag:alopeciaworld.com,2014-12-27:2022678:Comment:12345592014-12-27T21:31:17.500ZAlopeciaDestroyedMyLifehttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/AlopeciaDestroyedMyLife
<p>These "white hairs" are they terminal white hairs or vellus hairs?</p>
<p>These "white hairs" are they terminal white hairs or vellus hairs?</p> This is an excerpt from Boldl…tag:alopeciaworld.com,2014-12-27:2022678:Comment:12344822014-12-27T19:25:41.998ZPamFitros@boldlybaldwomen.comhttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/PamFitrosboldlybaldwomencom
<p style="text-align: left;">This is an excerpt from Boldly Bald Women that I wrote when I was experiencing some regrowth. I noticed it seemed to come in the winter months, never the summer months. Has anybody else noticed a seasonal connection to regrowth?</p>
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<p>This morning I made a cup of coffee, padded to the bathroom to shower, and…</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This is an excerpt from Boldly Bald Women that I wrote when I was experiencing some regrowth. I noticed it seemed to come in the winter months, never the summer months. Has anybody else noticed a seasonal connection to regrowth?</p>
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<p>This morning I made a cup of coffee, padded to the bathroom to shower, and sang happily as the water bounced off my bald head. When I’d finished showering, while brushing my teeth, I noticed a few blemishes on my face.</p>
<p>Looking closer, the front lighting of the mirror and the back lighting of the sun through the outside window merged, catching patches of colorless strands on my face where the breakouts were. HAIR! Not the fine, short, downy hair that used to cover my face, but straggly goat beard hairs—the ones that had you grabbing for the tweezers back when hair was not a novelty. But these hairs look confused. They were the color of fishing line and had no sense of uniformity at all!</p>
<p>The more I looked the more astounded I became. Nope, no nose hair, but there were ridges growing along the outside edges of my ears like transparent pine trees storming the heights of a barren mountainside. No eyebrows, but a patch of hair wannabes at the nape of my neck.</p>
<p>This has happened before. In the past all the new hair quickly fell out again leaving me once more smooth as a baby’s butt and blemish free. What will happen this time?</p>
<p>Alopecia is fickle. If you let it, it will indifferently drive you crazy. Just when you’ve given up all hope, hair will grow back, stay for a while, or maybe forever, and fall out someplace else―or not. And when you’ve finally dared to breathe a sigh of relief because it’s all grown back and taken up permanent residence, whole communities just disappear, leaving bare patches of scalp behind like abandoned camp sites. Or it may <i>all</i> leave en mass, and you stand looking in the mirror at a totally new personal landscape, trying to see if <i>you</i> are still in there somewhere.</p>
<p>One of the difficult aspects of alopecia is that you don’t get to grieve a loss, adjust to a change in your self-concept and physical appearance, and then move on with your life. It keeps you off balance and feeds both false hope and unfounded despair again, and again, and again, until the only thing you know for sure is nothing is for sure. And that certainty of uncertainty is called acceptance. It’s a good place to be, and it’s a hard place to remain centered.</p>
<p>For today, I feel okay about this new development, although honestly, I hope the little buggers decide to leave sooner rather than later. I’ve grown fond of my smooth skin and shining head.</p> Yes. The white are tougher an…tag:alopeciaworld.com,2014-12-24:2022678:Comment:12341952014-12-24T16:31:48.966ZTallgirlhttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/Tallgirl
<p>Yes. The white are tougher and last where the alopecia hairs did not.</p>
<p>Yes. The white are tougher and last where the alopecia hairs did not.</p> I had the same pattern of reg…tag:alopeciaworld.com,2014-12-24:2022678:Comment:12342772014-12-24T09:04:03.097ZPathttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/Pat
<p>I had the same pattern of regrowth. I let it grow for a while but eventually shaved it off. It was also a different texture to normal hair, quite coarse and thick and it stuck straight up. If it had regrown like that all over my scalp I would have still been delighted but nothing else happened in the regrowth department. I also had vitiligo when I was in my 20s but it went away quite a few years before I had alopecia.</p>
<p>I had the same pattern of regrowth. I let it grow for a while but eventually shaved it off. It was also a different texture to normal hair, quite coarse and thick and it stuck straight up. If it had regrown like that all over my scalp I would have still been delighted but nothing else happened in the regrowth department. I also had vitiligo when I was in my 20s but it went away quite a few years before I had alopecia.</p> I have not yet noticed it but…tag:alopeciaworld.com,2014-12-23:2022678:Comment:12341342014-12-23T17:58:53.899ZGeorgia Stephenshttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/GeorgiaStephens
<p>I have not yet noticed it but after using colors you can change them to black.</p>
<p>I have not yet noticed it but after using colors you can change them to black.</p> Dear GardenJess, and others..…tag:alopeciaworld.com,2014-12-23:2022678:Comment:12340942014-12-23T15:23:04.084ZInezhttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/Inez
<p>Dear GardenJess, and others... It is said its common and typical for alopecia areata that regrowing hairs is white. The white has nothing to do with vitiligo. The reason why hair grows back white, is because the pigmented hairs are more likely to be attacked by our immune system. That is what specialists say.</p>
<p>I myself do not have vitiligo or any other auto immune disorder. I lost all of my hair in a few weeks time, age 47. It grew back after 2 years, entirely. And never fell out…</p>
<p>Dear GardenJess, and others... It is said its common and typical for alopecia areata that regrowing hairs is white. The white has nothing to do with vitiligo. The reason why hair grows back white, is because the pigmented hairs are more likely to be attacked by our immune system. That is what specialists say.</p>
<p>I myself do not have vitiligo or any other auto immune disorder. I lost all of my hair in a few weeks time, age 47. It grew back after 2 years, entirely. And never fell out again, until this day (11 years later).</p>
<p>At first it was really really white, like santa's beard and a few months later, the pigmented hair showed up. Funny to see how it grew in spots juist like the spots that lead to baldness. When I do not dye my hair, I look like a dalmation dog. Thank God for hairdressers and colour-rinses. Love from the Netherlands</p> Although I don't have massive…tag:alopeciaworld.com,2014-12-23:2022678:Comment:12339322014-12-23T14:21:00.464ZLori Powershttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/ReeHotfessional
<p>Although I don't have massive regrowth with this bout (which started in 2008), back in 1996 when I was originally diagnosed, I had 100% regrowth and it was all white and very coarse. The only other Auto Immune disorder I have is psoriasis, but it seems to be in 'remission' right now.</p>
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<p>Although I don't have massive regrowth with this bout (which started in 2008), back in 1996 when I was originally diagnosed, I had 100% regrowth and it was all white and very coarse. The only other Auto Immune disorder I have is psoriasis, but it seems to be in 'remission' right now.</p>
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