Lynne thanb you so much for your kind words in frustrated you will never know what they & you met. I am sorry it took me so long to get back with you I had the last of 3 procedures & was in the hospital for 5 days but doing so much better now. I am so sorry what your going through, I amm starting back seeing my counslor again, need more tools on how to deal with these feelings. I wish you all the best my Alopecian Sister hang in there you will find your are much stronger then you ever thought you were & could be.
hey bellissima
don't worry about it ,,, it happens 2 me n 2003 start growing then falls back don't let that mack u feel sad the beauty inside not outside
lots of love
Hi Lynne! I'd love to chat sometime. Yeah I've been bald for basically my whole life but I had never seriously tried to deal with it emotionally until like the last year or so (I've spent most of my teen years so far trying to forget about alopecia or pretend it wasn't there and somewhat succeeding). It was very hard at first to deal with all the feelings I had stored up but these days I'm pretty happy and actually am starting to like the way I look with or without hair. It is still very hard for me to tell people about it or go without a wig and I really wish I could get past this. Anyway enough about me...Hope you are doing alright, anytime you want to talk just let me know!
Hello Lynne, everything's fine, thank you! You know, i hate alopecia too!!! :-(
Thanks for the nice comments, your pictures are fab too!!!
It's very nice to meet you!
hello lynne. I just joined. what a pain in the bum aa is, turnede my life upside down and nearly ruined my career. my dermatologist said shaving would make look worse due to apteern as i have dark hair. Utter rubbish, it took a whole vodka bottle but last night i shaved it all off and altough it doesnt suit me i cant even remeber feeling so liberated and free.
Hi don't worry I'm not on here a lot eva lol nd I hope u have a really good time I luv going 2 weddings nd I've got ict course work tec maths and English lol so alot :D ohh well it will be worth it at the end of it all I hope
Hi sorry thia is late, iv been away!
try not to feel too down hun, i know it's hard and it's your hair, but try and stay positive because it can't get better over night i remember when mine was comin back and it was really slow up until it reached an inch or two, but after that growth sped up a lot.
i have it all coming back now. the thing was, i saw numerous dermatologists and i was given steroid creams etc. and nothing work. eventually i think i had some sort of change in my mind where i had kind of got used to living with aa, and had little faith in anything to help growth. but a woman who went to the same wig shop as me said she tried Nourkrin and all her hair came back. after i took them for a few months more of my hair came back, so i don't know, i think you have to keep a broad mind with things than that. i only had to take 2 a day aswell, so its not difficult to keep track of, however im terrible with taking things too and didnt always take them and it still seemed to have a positive effect :) hope this helps anyway hun xxx
Hi Lynne :D how are you?
I've had alopecia areata since i was 17, so for about 4 and a half years now. at first i lost a couple of patches but after about a year 1/3 of my hair was gone. at ifirst i really didn't deal with it well and was presvribedlots of steroid based medication, but they didn't work. eventally i bought extensions and began to take Nourkrin (which you can get from holland & barratt). i don't know whether it worked or whether it was my different attitude but it has been growing back for almost a year.
to cope, i told my frineds etc. which i found really hard to do. the worst thing for me was not quite knowing what caused my aloecia etc. and thats why im writing my dissertation on it :D xxx
Hi Lynne,
My friend in Ratho is a bloke so don't think his baldness worries him too much - he suits it.
There is an alopecia group in Scotland that has meetings in Edinburgh sometimes. I'm on their mailing list - they do a nice newsletter and sometimes have some helpful advice. They've recently been looking into whether you can get human hair wigs on your NHS prescription. They have a website - www.alopeciascotland.co.uk. The website is quite basic but if you get the newsletter sent to you, you can find out about when the next meeting will be.
That's great about getting some dark hair regrowth. I've got quite a lot of white baby hair at the moment but it doesn't seem to be coming to much. Fingers crossed though.
Hey Lynne, things are great with me....my eyelashes and eyebrows finally decided to fall out, which really sucks, but it's just one of those things I guess...how ling did it take for yours to grow back? Also, I read your blog. It's great you have some regrowth, you must be over the moon! xo
So chuffed to hear that your hair is coming back. Don't worry about the white hairs - as long as there's something there. I can't believe that I'm posting this on a public forum but some of my hair came back white so I have to "help" it with it's colour ;0)
Thanks for your comment. I'm doing good thanks. All of my original spots have filled in. I've got a couple of small spots at one side but I'm trying not to think about them too much. I've stopped all of my treatments apart from putting some steroid cream on the spots that are still there. I'm still conscious that this can reoccur but I'm enjoying the lack of a need for a combover right now! ;0)
I'm back living in Glasgow just now but who knows where the future will take me. Had an ill-fated couple of months working at the Capital so that's how I recognised your do was there - figured there couldn't be that many other places having a Caribbean Christmas!
I've not long been wearing wigs either so don't order mine online. I'm a student just now so can't afford to buy extras - making do with my four a year from the NHS. I think the next ones I get (in June - yay not long to go) will be other ones that I tried on last time I was in Turvey's but I think I'll go to their new(ish) Glasgow salon to get them this time around. First problem will be to get my prescription again from Stobhill. Seriously, getting one from the Royal in Edinburgh was really easy compared to Stobhill but hopefully it will be easier this time around when it's just a repeat.
I used to tuck my hair behind my ears all the time but with a wig, it doesn't seem to matter how long it is because I always end up looking like Gary Linekar.
Do you ever have dreams where you've got your full head of hair in them? I had one not that long ago and I couldn't stop running my hands over my head. I woke up so happy only to be disappointed...
Got a friend who lives in Ratho - who's nearly as bald as us!
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This is bertha. I am doing well. I hope that I have blogged this message corrctly this time. How are you.
don't worry about it ,,, it happens 2 me n 2003 start growing then falls back don't let that mack u feel sad the beauty inside not outside
lots of love
Tom
Thanks for the nice comments, your pictures are fab too!!!
It's very nice to meet you!
Love, Saskia
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try not to feel too down hun, i know it's hard and it's your hair, but try and stay positive because it can't get better over night i remember when mine was comin back and it was really slow up until it reached an inch or two, but after that growth sped up a lot.
i have it all coming back now. the thing was, i saw numerous dermatologists and i was given steroid creams etc. and nothing work. eventually i think i had some sort of change in my mind where i had kind of got used to living with aa, and had little faith in anything to help growth. but a woman who went to the same wig shop as me said she tried Nourkrin and all her hair came back. after i took them for a few months more of my hair came back, so i don't know, i think you have to keep a broad mind with things than that. i only had to take 2 a day aswell, so its not difficult to keep track of, however im terrible with taking things too and didnt always take them and it still seemed to have a positive effect :) hope this helps anyway hun xxx
I've had alopecia areata since i was 17, so for about 4 and a half years now. at first i lost a couple of patches but after about a year 1/3 of my hair was gone. at ifirst i really didn't deal with it well and was presvribedlots of steroid based medication, but they didn't work. eventally i bought extensions and began to take Nourkrin (which you can get from holland & barratt). i don't know whether it worked or whether it was my different attitude but it has been growing back for almost a year.
to cope, i told my frineds etc. which i found really hard to do. the worst thing for me was not quite knowing what caused my aloecia etc. and thats why im writing my dissertation on it :D xxx
yes im keeping well thank you (:
how are you ? x
My friend in Ratho is a bloke so don't think his baldness worries him too much - he suits it.
There is an alopecia group in Scotland that has meetings in Edinburgh sometimes. I'm on their mailing list - they do a nice newsletter and sometimes have some helpful advice. They've recently been looking into whether you can get human hair wigs on your NHS prescription. They have a website - www.alopeciascotland.co.uk. The website is quite basic but if you get the newsletter sent to you, you can find out about when the next meeting will be.
That's great about getting some dark hair regrowth. I've got quite a lot of white baby hair at the moment but it doesn't seem to be coming to much. Fingers crossed though.
Thanks for your comment. I'm doing good thanks. All of my original spots have filled in. I've got a couple of small spots at one side but I'm trying not to think about them too much. I've stopped all of my treatments apart from putting some steroid cream on the spots that are still there. I'm still conscious that this can reoccur but I'm enjoying the lack of a need for a combover right now! ;0)
How are things with you?
I'm back living in Glasgow just now but who knows where the future will take me. Had an ill-fated couple of months working at the Capital so that's how I recognised your do was there - figured there couldn't be that many other places having a Caribbean Christmas!
I've not long been wearing wigs either so don't order mine online. I'm a student just now so can't afford to buy extras - making do with my four a year from the NHS. I think the next ones I get (in June - yay not long to go) will be other ones that I tried on last time I was in Turvey's but I think I'll go to their new(ish) Glasgow salon to get them this time around. First problem will be to get my prescription again from Stobhill. Seriously, getting one from the Royal in Edinburgh was really easy compared to Stobhill but hopefully it will be easier this time around when it's just a repeat.
I used to tuck my hair behind my ears all the time but with a wig, it doesn't seem to matter how long it is because I always end up looking like Gary Linekar.
Do you ever have dreams where you've got your full head of hair in them? I had one not that long ago and I couldn't stop running my hands over my head. I woke up so happy only to be disappointed...
Got a friend who lives in Ratho - who's nearly as bald as us!
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