Alopecia

OXR60W · 30-04-2006, 10:43 PM

Anyone know anyone that has Alopecia ? My wife suffers from it. Just wondering how common it is.

**Polyal** · 30-04-2006, 10:46 PM

Can you explain? Ive never heard of it.

davocol · 30-04-2006, 10:51 PM

Is that baldness? I would think it would be uncommon in women.

Wokkas · 30-04-2006, 10:56 PM

Peter Garret's got it. Apart from that, never heard of anyone who has it. I would have thought it would be pretty rare.

ronwest · 30-04-2006, 10:58 PM

http://www.niams.nih.gov/hi/topics/a...a/alopecia.htm

I know a specialist in Sydney who's whole practice revolves around alopecia so it's probably more common than we think.

OXR60W · 30-04-2006, 11:11 PM

Yeah is hair loss. Its nasty for a women,especially a good looking woman like my wife. She has had the worst form of Alopecia for near 2 years.

I didn't think Garret had it. I know Dean Canto has it.

BPXR6T · 30-04-2006, 11:57 PM

Yep, women at work has it.

banarcus · 01-05-2006, 12:15 AM

I have had it now for about 3 years now. It comes and goes from time to time. I got it on my scon where it looked like I pulled chunks of hair out. It grew back slowly, very fine white hair at first and then after a while, back to normality. Now it has attacked my eyebrows and I've got to say that people reckon a mate or someone has shaved chunks out of them. They're growing back slowly thank goodness.

Get a steriod injection in the affected area. It worked with a fella at work and his hair grew back in a matter of weeks rather than months or years.

OXR60W · 01-05-2006, 12:44 AM

My wife is a tuff as nails,as in pain resilliance ( she cut half her finger off trying to catch lawn mower blades ) she had injections in her scalp and i think they were steroids or something. She said it was unbelievable pain. She has tried near everything on the market, herbal,accupuncture,roids,rogaine,new trial stuff,phycologists etc.

Hopefully the anti depressants will relax her a bit. She has been told by most " experts " that it was probably triggered by stress. So hopefully in time it will come back.

the_scotsman · 01-05-2006, 06:57 AM

Ive got s small patches. One on my neck that is very prominant when I dont shave. its about twice the size of a 50c piece. And a small one about the size of a 10 c piece on the back of my head, on the edge of my hair so it isnt really noticable.
DOctor said it was a fungal infection and to rub canestan cream on it......bull****....they're still there...I guess I'm lucky its not moved to my scalp. I'm getting married in August so it better stay where it is!

From what I've read on the internet, it should grow back in around 6 months or so, but they've been there for 12 months. Im not TOO worried about it, and its not bad enough to think about getting injections or anything...

GOLDIE · 01-05-2006, 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by OXR60W

My wife is a tuff as nails,as in pain resilliance ( she cut half her finger off trying to catch lawn mower blades ) she had injections in her scalp and i think they were steroids or something. She said it was unbelievable pain. She has tried near everything on the market, herbal,accupuncture,roids,rogaine,new trial stuff,phycologists etc.

Hopefully the anti depressants will relax her a bit. She has been told by most " experts " that it was probably triggered by stress. So hopefully in time it will come back.

I know your wife has tried lots of things but i you could get hold of some pure emu oil and try that it may help as it helps a lot off different things.

Ian

Gimmers55 · 01-05-2006, 09:38 AM

It is a quite common condition amongst women. Estimates are that it affects anywhere from 20 to 50 percent of women to some degree. Apart from the physical affects of alopecia (or hair thinning), there can be very significant phsychological affects.

Regaine (the female equivalent of Rogaine) has been released recently. For more information, go see a dermatologist. A book was also released late last year. It's called:

'Bad hair day: A guide to female hair loss' by Francesca Collins, Seba Biondo & Rod Sinclair. Publisher is Lothian Books, Melbourne.

Feathers · 01-05-2006, 05:14 PM

Yeah I know a girl who has had it from birth.

She has no hair anywhere. No eyelashes, nothing.
Thats kind of off-putting at first. It made my eyes water while I was trying to hold a conversation with her.

As much as she would love to have her own hair, she actually quite likes the fact she can have a differect wig for each day of the week, and totally change the way she looks.

nugget378 · 01-05-2006, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by OXR60W

My wife is a tuff as nails,as in pain resilliance ( she cut half her finger off trying to catch lawn mower blades ) she had injections in her scalp and i think they were steroids or something. She said it was unbelievable pain. She has tried near everything on the market, herbal,accupuncture,roids,rogaine,new trial stuff,phycologists etc.

Hopefully the anti depressants will relax her a bit. She has been told by most " experts " that it was probably triggered by stress. So hopefully in time it will come back.

Yep it was stress for me, I lost exactly half the hair above my lip, it was weird as I had to keep shaving all the time.came about when a building company ripped me off, after a change of lifestyle it went away about 6 months later without any medication or treatment.

Funtime25 · 01-05-2006, 08:03 PM

I have a mate who has it.
He has had it most of his life and he is in his 50's, we call him "curly"
he lives with it and it doesnt bother him at all

Gimmers55 · 01-05-2006, 08:42 PM

Alopecia is simply hair loss, complete or partial. It is a general term applied to all sorts of hair loss. Male pattern baldness is a common form of alopecia, however in some cases it involves complete loss of all bodily hair. In other words many, if not most men will experience some form of alopecia. I'm thinning just forward of the crown of my head. This is not uncommon.

Serious cases amongst women, however, can be very distressing psychologically, probably because society does not recognise baldness as a female issue. When a serious case of alopecia does develop in a women she and others may be quite distressed. Accordingly treatment needs to involve more than just specialist medical intervention.

Mrs Coyote · 01-05-2006, 09:07 PM

I coached a girl some years ago in a junior softball team who had alopecia. She was only 9 and wore a different wig all the time and decided that this way when she eventually had hair she would know how to tell the hairdresser how she wanted it.

I know there are support groups across Australia and found a website www.alopecia-sydney.com this site also has information about other groups across Australia. I hope this helps.

Good luck to your wife in controlling stress if this is what is causing it, I hope that it all settles down and the alopecia in itself is not to stressful and depressing as I am sure that it could be.

rob_liss_lms10 · 02-05-2006, 09:54 AM

When I was 15 I had a serious bout of Glandular fever..I had an extremely high temp for about 3 days....After full recovery my waist length hair started to fall out, It was a very distressing time and My Mum and Dad spent a fortune taking me to different specialists to try and solve the problem most times the doctors where sadly verly unsympathetic(this was 16 yrs ago mind you), eventually we found a trichologist who was very helpful and although in the end I lost my hair, eventually after much pain and heartache it grew back (about 12 months) and i havent had a problem since....
I truley know how demoralising and painful this can be, the most frustrating part is people trying to be helpful by saying you look beautiful anyway, and how free and liberated you must feel...The truth is you feel like crap and no matter what anyone says you feel you look like crap....The only thing i can suggest is a great wig, and lots of cuddles! lol ...also when her hair does start to grow back try SebaMed Shampoo you can get it from almost all Chemists it makes your appear thicker than it really is it worked wonders for me in the early stages of my hair growing back....best of luck and although it happened a long time ago to me I've cried the same tears I would be more than happy to have a chat to your wife if she feels she needs to too...
Lissa