My Experience with Alopecia

Description: Alopecia areata (al-oh-PEE-shah air-ee-AH-tah) is a highly unpredictable, autoimmune skin disease resulting in the ... more

My Experience with Alopecia ... loss of hair on the scalp and elsewhere on the body. In alopecia areata, the affected hair follicles are mistakenly attacked by a person's own immune system (white blood cells), resulting in the arrest of the hair growth stage. Alopecia areata usually starts with one or more small, round, smooth bald patches on the scalp and can progress to total scalp hair loss (alopecia totalis) or complete body hair loss (alopecia universalis).

Newest Review: ... to me, he spent time discussing it all with me. He took blood tests and arranged for a skin scraping just to make sure I hadn't got ringworm which can also cause hairloss - more often in children. When I came out I didn't feel any better about it but I knew that my body was trying to tell me something. My Doc is used to me diagnosing myself before I come in and used to me refusing ... more

... conventional treatments unless it's abs olutely necessary. In this case AA is treated by a steroid cream or injection into the bald spot. I said no thankyou. I came ...more

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My Experience with Alopecia: Rapunzel, Rapunzel (2637 words)
by - written on 28/06/03 (Very useful, 3350 readings)
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I mentioned having Alopecia Areata in my A-Z a couple of weeks back but I thought I'd write something a little bit more comprehensive - especially as there's only one other opinion here. Despite going through the usual things some women experience - sensitive about body image etc. etc. my hair has literally always been my crownng glory. Up to the age of 5 my hair was down to my waist and I loved it. Then one day my Mum announced she was cutting my hair. I was due to go on a weeks holiday with my Gran (to Clacton no less!) and somehow she thought that it would be easier for my Gran to cope with if my hair was short. I cried. And then I cried ... Read the complete review

I'm the lost dalmation!! (1757 words)
by - written on 27/09/01 (Very useful, 700 readings)
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It all began just after my 14th birthday when I went along for my haircut, I didn't go to the hairdressers very often as my hair was quite long and I wanted it to stay that way, having it cut, even trimmed, was not high on my agenda of things to do but it was high time I went. So there I found myself sat in the hairdressers chair, quietly humming away to something on the radio when my hairdresser stopped what she was doing and grabbed the hand mirror from in front of me, after blunty holding it at the back of my head she faced me through the mirror and asked "How long has this been here Kerry?" I looked up quickly to be faced with a small bald patch on the ... Read the complete review

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