Hair loss is traumatic #dermatologist @DrDrayzday

#hairloss #hairlosstreatment #hairgrowth #alopecia

[starlight]

When my hair started falling out I went to the doctor and his response was “ you only care because it’s cosmetic”. I will never forget those words. These are the professionals they want you to see in time of need. It’s extremely traumatic. Unless Uve gone through it ull never knw the feeling. Smh. I had bald patches on my head in my 20s something was clearly wrong. Shame on him

[rkaur]

True, and my dermatologist never took it seriously 😐

[ILovHelloKitty]

It’s not always about how we look… it’s how we feel about the hair loss. That’s why those comments bother us so much! Even if we haven’t lost more than the normal amount- it can feel distressing!! I agree with you 100%

[Essie_K]

I have androgenetic alopecia and my ex boyfriend laughed at me a few years ago and said I had more bald spots than him. I will never forget that and my hair loss got even worse in the last years. I lost about a quarter of my hair now. I cry every time I wash it. I am so insecure and I don't feel good leaving my house.

[piki]

I have nightmares about loose teeth or losing teeth.

[irisk]

When my hair started falling out after I gave birth to my child, it definitely added to my postpartum depression. It is definitely a traumatic experience to lose your hair

[emarose_]

My boyfriend has a form of scarring alopecia. I can’t remember the exact diagnosis because he’s extremely sensitive about it. He has always had the thickest most dense black hair but now he’s developing severe hair loss in the middle of his scalp and it’s made worse by the scarring and inflammation and sores and he doesn’t even want to go out in public anymore. Be kind to each other.

[cateharding]

my hair volume is 1/2 what it was. I have curly hair and therefore looks fuller than what it is. I am not happy about it.

[chanelljackson]

I lost my hair doing chemo but it's growing back slowly but surely.

[sundown]

Yes I had telegen effluvium and lost most all of my hair. It was a horrible experience and extremely traumatic. But most everyone rolled eyes and acted like no big deal. But it didn’t happen to them and until it does they really wouldn’t understand.

I take nutrafol, vital proteins and use pur’dor shampoo and conditioner. And now a year later my hair is growing the fullest of my life.

I am sorry if this happens to you. It is incredibly hard.

[Username]

I lost 30-40% of my hair when I got Covid 2.5 years ago. It took about a year for it start growing back. It was very tramatic, especially for someone still in college at the time.

[AetherealGirl]

Even something as "simple" as a bad hair cut can be extremely distressing as well. People love to say "oh it's just hair! Get over it! It will grow back!" but they don't realize that for a lot of us, our hair is a huge part of our identity and for some, it's the only thing we like about our physical appearance. It also takes YEARS to grow back, that's a long time to go without feeling like yourself.

[asimweruganyoisa]

I've had several dermatologists make those comments. So unprofessional and insensitive. I'm at the point where I'm just self treating now because of they refuse to listen.

[vanbriannemodel]

I was just diagnosed with breast cancer several months ago and I freaked out more over losing my hair than losing my breasts. It's very individual. I've been a professional Model since I was a teen and my hair has been waist length for 15 years, it's been one of my biggest identifying qualities in my career and I'm just so used to it, that I've also had nightmares of it falling out. And I definitely can relate to people being dismissive... one of my biggest pet peeves since being diagnosed is someone just blurting out "you'll be fine!" It's so disrespectful. Like "you're right, just chop my boobs off and on with life, no biggie!" 🤣

[schoolwerk]

My dermatologist and therapist both told me my hair looked good to them when I finally got up the courage to tell them about my significant hair shedding. My primary care physician also dismissed my concerns with “well, some people just lose a lot of hair at different times of their lives” and proceeded to show me how she’s losing hair postpartum (Note: I was not and never have pregnant, so her demonstration was totally irrelevant). I literally collected my shed hairs and took them into a different dermatologist who insisted it just looked like a lot because my hair was long. The first and only time I saw a rheumatologist about my shedding and abnormal labwork, she dismissed it with “Oh, you would have many more bald patches [if something was wrong internally]. Trust me, it would be noticeable”…Well, it was noticeable. My temples were thinning then and they’re definitely noticeable now 😣 I used to have very thick hair, but now I’ve lost half of my density and front perimeter of my hair is very thin. Turns out that I have an autoimmune condition that could’ve and should’ve been caught much sooner had any of the above “professionals” taken me seriously 🙃 So yeah, hair loss sucks, and so do incompetent providers.

[Severin]

It's so heartening to have this language used around the experience of hairloss.

[Justaregularoldplumbus]

“Looks good to me” is very reassuring to me lol

[macaqqpf]

I’m struggling with hair loss right now, my mom too and i didn’t really understand back then how much of a distress this can be. Be thoughtful and kind to people around you, they can be suffering from things you can’t even see❤

[paulaj]

I was having a huge problem with hair loss years ago and thats what my (GP) doctor told me. Every morning I would cry looking at all the hair I lost and she just dismissed me. The whole experience (which lasted about 5 weeks or so) was so, so traumatic. I finally saw my dermatologist and she told me my scalp was scaly. She suggested Nioxin. It worked! To this day I switch in a bottle of Nioxin once or twice a year for shampoo.

[elizabethwilk]

Thank you for confirming what those of us who have thinning hair go through. I even have nightmares about it.