Oh Dom you're the best thank you!!! I started this Smoking Weed discussion and it's amazing how many people hve had regrowth afterwards - not everyone but a really decent number!! There wre a few people who were just trying to make t about I'm encouraging kids to try it, It all starts with pot then leads to blah blah bah it got really nasty and really really upset me!!! Can't stop thinking about it! Like I needed another reason to hate men! I've been thinking about your starkles brows had a look on their site but not listed might have to take a trip into the cit and check out. How much were they?

Hi Dominique,
How are you?
Tracy

Thanks for the support!!! that means the world to me!!! : )

Dom!! Hi there stranger! Gareth and I are back in the USA and we have a baby daughter. I've missed seeing you, Angela and the others back in Brisbane so it was such a nice surprise to find you here. How are you doing? How is your mum? I hope everyone is well! Lots of love, Courtney

dominique, heres a link to a book and the thing about twins
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=shP_ZfPRrUkC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=alopecia+twins&source=web&ots=61rrO6bf7G&sig=C_t9P7RGNmID3UaVwYv4IV0BdUM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

Di Dominique,

Thanks for thr reply. I am looking forward to reading your advice.

Karen

Hi,

I have been reading your page for the past few months and have wanted to message you to ask a few questions. If you read my page you would see that I have a daughter who is turning five in three weeks and she has alopecia. She is now in the shedding phase and what will happen....who knows...

I have come to terms with the fact that she may have to live with this for the rest of her life and now I am pretty much OK. I still have my days but on the most part, I am content.

What I am concern is the school matters and what would it be like for her when I am not around. I feel like you would be the perfect person to ask since you have grown up with this condition and have bloomed into a beautiful woman.

Was it hard for you? How did you deal with the issues (especially the teen years)? What about wigs? Were you bullied? Did your parents talk to the school about your condition? Did you go to a private or public school? Was it easy for you to make friends? I guess you would now what I am leaning towards. I really want to know firsthand what it may be like so that I can help her steer her life through it.

Any guidance from you will be worth more than money.


Karen

Yeah, looking younger really isn't all that bad. In many ways, I'm a late starter at this "life" thing, so being able to pass for someone younger is a real advantage. :)

I'm really tired of being carded at bars, though. :P

Hi Dominique,

I think getting a Freedom wig was definitely the best solution for me. My first wig was synthetic and I found that very hot and the hair kept getting matted - not nice. The next wig I had was a human hair but obviously very processed hair because it tended to mat as well. My Freedom wig can be a little hot - I sweat a bit under the cap on hot days but if I have the hair up off my neck in a ponytail it's not unbearable. After all, on 30+ degree days, my own hair used to feel hot as well!

I find it very comfortable, it did feel a little weird at first but it didn't take that long to get used to it. Another thing that I had to get used to is getting it in the right place when you put it on. When I first got it, it would take me 3 or 4 tries to get it on right.

It definitely won't come off at the wrong moment - I've been swimming with it on (although I prefer to swim bald or in a bandana because the hair gets quite heavy when wet) and I've been on a 'slingshot' ride wearing it (where you get flung way up in the air & turn upside down etc.)

I can't think of anything else to tell you at the moment, but if you have anymore questions at all, I'd be only too happy to answer them.

I love my hair colour too! It's so close to what my own hair was. Funny to think that growing up, I didn't like my red hair and now when getting wigs, I won't settle for anything but red! I just don't look right any other colour.

Karina.

thx. and he did answer. hes still me fren. and idk if i could just bring it up if i wanted to. austin like told the whole school. hes an ass.

Hi Dominique, thanks for the add. Great photos, especially the one in the dress from above!

Your reply to kaykeyn was so touching, I admire your positive outlook on what it's like living with alopecia. I have yet to reach that point.

Hi! I'ts nice to meet you! Yeah i'm getting there with the whole hair loss thing. I try and stay positive if not for me, my boyfriend. He's such a softy. Another aussie, yay! That photo is gorgeous. You're a brissy girl are you? Must be happy about the state of origin then. I was so cranky haha. Bloody QLD lol. How you been? Liesl xx

Hi.

Hows life back in Australia?

Roger.

Hi Dominique, fellow aussie! My name's Liesl and I'm from Wollongong. That is a gorgeous picture.

Hi Dominique - you have a great picture (the one seated looking down). When I shave my head I might have to copy the idea. I have a photographer friend that is counting down the days until I shave so he can start taking pics. :-)

Just happened upon your page. Love your perspective!

Hey Dominique....I just read your reply on Signe's forum question about passing along aa to her baby. I just wanted to tell you I totally agree about the trigger thing. I've got aa, hashimoto's thyroiditis, excema and rheumatoid arthritis. Nothing came out until I was in college. No one in my family -- and I mean no one (I've gone back generations) - had anything like what I've got. I think my family all carried this gene and it just took a trigger to set it off. I had that trigger and the rest of my family, thank goodness, did not. My doctor seems to think it was an infection or injury that happened to me in college...but that was 15 years ago and I cant' remember that far back. Hell, I can barely remember what I ate for breakfast yesterday!!!! Take care....Daria

so what do you do for a living?