by Dame
(parts unknown)
Hair Falling Out
Hi.
I first noticed that my hair line will start to recede when I was 19 years old. Today I'm almost 23 and in the 4 year since I noticed it has only receded a bit on both sides of the forehead. Every year I noticed a bit of change but really not much.
But.
This summer I went to the US to work a summer job. Before I left for the US, I had some exams I had to pass for college. They put a lot of weight on me, I had to study like 1000 pages in 2 weeks. Then my teachers lied to me about taking the exams and so on. So I was stressed out about that. Then during the summer I worked 90 days with no days off, every day I would get up at 5 am and I would work 12-13 hours a day. During which mid July I got very sick, and worked with a fever and heavy back pain for 10 days. It was hell. I got better by the 1st of August.
Then all was fine until mid Sept, when I noticed that there was a slight change in volume of my hair. I wasn't as dense as before. When I got back home at the 20th of Sept. The first shower I took my bath tub was filled with hair.
I've never lost so much hair in the shower. But I thought ok, this might be something like a change of a climate or something. Then I would style my hair one way. The next week I had trouble styling it the same way. Then I would style it another way, two weeks after that I would have trouble styling that way too.
Then took a bath one day and noticed my tub was filled with hair. I have never seen so much hair in my life in a bath tub. Now you could see my scalp through my hair this was never the case before. I was very paranoid about my hair because of the slight recession and would have my fingers through it all the time. I knew the volume and such. I was shedding like crazy I would run my fingers through my head I would have like 10-15 hairs in it.
The shedding stopped at the very end of Oct. But I lost so much hair in such a short time. Every one that sees me asks me what happened to my hair. Am I losing my hair?
The hairs do have the white bulbs, those are quite visible. My problem is that the hair has thinned on top the most, the sides have thinned too, but the back not so much. But it has thinned too. Hair falls out when I run my fingers there too.
I spend a lot of time looking at photos. This has happened in such a short time I'm freaked out. My local dermatologist told me it?s MPB it must have been going on for quite some time. I tried to tell her this has happened so sudden. She said that is not so, I just didn't notice it. I went to a hair specialist he did a trichogram and said a lot of hair are in a telogenized state, from the top and the back too. But he didn't offer much advice, just said he thinks things are gonna stabilize.
I'm thinking this is TE, but I'm not sure because I had a very slight recession. But there is no chance I had been thinning so bad for so long because I had my hair cut short 4 months ago, shorter than now and used hair gel to style it and I didn't notice anything like this. Nor did anyone say something to me. Nor did anyone say something to me about hair loss a month ago. Now everyone is asking me.
The hair line has not changed at all it has thinned the same as the rest of the scalp. I even see short hairs all over the scalp. Along the hair line I see some very small hairs here and there, and some slightly bigger ones.
Someone offer some advice if you can please. Thank you
Editor?s Comments,
Hi there, like most cases of sudden hair loss, it?s often related to an abrupt change of your hair growth cycle. There are many reasons for that and it could be related to stress that you are facing in college or probably due to you falling ill all the way back in July.
Usually the sudden hair loss will only occur after 2-3 months after the period of ?shock? and for your case, it does fit with the time that you fall sick. During that time, large amounts of hair will shut down and enter the Telogen phase and will rest until they are ready to fall out 2-3 months later. The hair loss can be tremendous if you are having serious acute Telogen Effluvium and you can notice many hairs falling about.
In most cases, the extreme hair loss will cease and return to the normal rate and if everything is well, you should notice the parts that you lost your hair slowly grow back up again. It will take some time for the hair to grow but you should feel consoled that it?s highly unlikely a permanent situation. Just keep calm and try to relax more. Do some routine scalp massage and keep a healthy lifestyle and that will help improve hair growth.
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