Founded in 2007, The Women’s Hair Loss Project unites women dealing with hair loss and has been providing help, hope and understanding to women dealing with hair loss for over a decade. Join the founder “Y” as she chats with women who share their own hair loss journeys, struggles and triumphs, as well as invites medical and alternative hair professionals to join the discussion to provide greater hair loss education/awareness and understanding, to both women dealing with hair loss and to anyone who is seeking to learn more about this often very misunderstood and isolating disorder.
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Founded in 2007, The Women’s Hair Loss Project unites women dealing with hair loss and has been providing help, hope and understanding to women dealing with hair loss for over a decade. Join the founder “Y” as she chats with women who share their own hair loss journeys, struggles and triumphs, as well as invites medical and alternative hair professionals to join the discussion to provide greater hair loss education/awareness and understanding, to both women dealing with hair loss and to anyone who is seeking to learn more about this often very misunderstood and isolating disorder.
Life Update & A New Hair Loss - Diffuse Alopecia Areata (Incognita)
The Women’s Hair Loss Project
26 minutes 3 seconds
2 years ago
Life Update & A New Hair Loss - Diffuse Alopecia Areata (Incognita)
This episode focuses on recapping the last year of my life. This is my life and hair loss update, they tie together. I now have a new type of hair loss in addition to the one I’ve had 24 years - female pattern baldness. The events of last year triggered this new hair loss, and so, here we are. I share about discovering I now also have diffuse alopecia areata (Incognita).
I feel like this update is messy and all over the place, but my life is messy and all over the place, so it works perfectly.
I had no idea it was possible to get more than one type of hair loss, but it is.
I vacillated over the last month on how I would treat it, if I would treat it. After a lot of reflection, I have made the decision I can live with, and I’m declining the use oral minoxidil, (and Dupixent, and Olumiant for that matter). I had previously refused oral minoxidil for my androgenetic alopecia, and I stopped systemically treating my female pattern baldness in 2013. I have only utilized PRP hair loss treatments since 2009 (done every 4-5 months).
This is new, and it is different, but the reasons I’m choosing to not treat it with medication are the very same as I made for my androgenetic alopecia, I am however trying a round of steroid injections, and I’ve already done those two times.
This podcast is a lengthy deep dive into how this came to be, and my thought process behind all of it. This is my life and hair loss update.Reference links to the things discussed in this podcast can be found at the bottom of this post:
https://www.womenshairlossproject.com/alopecia-areata/life-update-and-a-new-hair-loss-diffuse-alopecia-areata-incognita/
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The Women’s Hair Loss Project
Founded in 2007, The Women’s Hair Loss Project unites women dealing with hair loss and has been providing help, hope and understanding to women dealing with hair loss for over a decade. Join the founder “Y” as she chats with women who share their own hair loss journeys, struggles and triumphs, as well as invites medical and alternative hair professionals to join the discussion to provide greater hair loss education/awareness and understanding, to both women dealing with hair loss and to anyone who is seeking to learn more about this often very misunderstood and isolating disorder.
