Hair loss ?

[Annielass]

Hi I am 68 and I am losing lots of hair and I don`t know why, I have tried the usual tablets that I think most people try when you see them on line can anyone Help !!!

[Gadget1943]

Hello Annielass

I'm almost 70 and for the past 6 months my hair has been rapidly thinning. I am currently using the time-tested method of hiding bald patches with the 'comb-over' look.

It's the second time I've had Alopecia, the first, a couple of years ago, the small bald patches grew back my normal colour but this time the patches which cover nearly half my head are still growing rapidly and the re-growth of very fine, sparse hair is white!

I haven't taken any drugs at all. Since nobody really knows the cause I think I would be wasting my money. My doctor confessed he has no knowledge of cause or treatment! I guess it's not life-threatening, just self esteem threatening.

An 'Alopecia Specialist' [aka wig seller] I saw yesterday didn't know that you can get the VAT off a wig if you have the condition, nor did she know about the itching we experience. She wanted me to use some special 'product' that would help. I doubt it.

I've decided to buy hair clippers to keep my hair short and a good wig - maybe two.

It cost me £50 to have my hair dyed and the white hairs didn't take the colour so I'm definitely not going back to have them re-touched. I can get a wig for about £80.00 so I shall feel better about my self and just try to get on with life.

I hope you get some more helpful answers from others on here. Good luck.

Shirley

[Beejayz]

The cause of alopecia is unknown. We usually get a standard set of blood tests to rule out that the hairloss isn't caused by another condition, because things like thyroid or iron levels can have hairloss as a symptom. Alopecia tends to be diagnosed because its NOT any of these other things - it doesn't have a test specifically for it. So first step is general health check and blood tests to get a proper diagnosis.

So apart from it being known to be an auto immune condition, little by way of the Why is known. The issue is not with your hair at all - its internal, with the instruction being sent to grow hair. This is what auto immune means, the body attacking itself, in this case the hair.

There is also no known cure. That sounds scary, but what it means is the treatments available are hit and miss, might help one person but not another. So no one from anywhere can say, take this, do that and your hair will grow - if they do make such promises, they are lying.

And nothing from your doctor has a better cure rate, than natural recovery. That's another quirk of this condition, it can recover all by itself, without any interference of any kind. Its this self recovery which often is used as "proof" that some hocus pocus product works.

White hair is a normal new growth with alopecia, because its all to do with alopecia atacking pigments in hair. After time though its possible that the white hair can return to its normal colour - unless of course that's white!

Don't waste money on treatments - doctors have available all that there is to help - its personal decision if you want to try or not, because it may help or may not.

Unfortunately this is a condition with many questions, but actualy very few concrete proven answers.

[rachelsjulia]

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