All about hair loss, baldness, alopecia, types of alopecia, symptoms and causes, methods of treatment, useful advises

I know there are many reasons for hair loss and alopecia is just one of them. I see clients weekly who are losing their hair due to alopecia (AA, AT, and AU), chemo, radiation, cancer, other dermatological causes, other auto immune deficiencies, and other reasons beyond medical labeling. Some will say they have been told stress caused it, some will say a traumatic experience caused it, and others simply don’t know but begin looking into genetics. I still don’t know what really caused mine. What I do know is that it happened. I know that after I went through many many tests and no results came from those tests I was told I had alopecia. When it was diagnosed in me (33 years ago) they still related my condition to male pattern baldness which today they classify as different things. The Doctors felt that the many drugs I had to take to keep me alive as a very sick child didn’t show all their effects in my body until my teens which some medications do. The Doctors also felt that since my Mother and Grandmother had “male patterned baldness” that it was something I was genetically predisposed to getting. My condition was just stimulated earlier than theirs. However, the Doctors did not have any “solutions”. I felt very alone, filled with shame, and frightened. Read More »