Category: Female Hair Loss

Hello,
I was wondering if i could get some advice on my hair loss. Over the past 8 months I have lost over half of my hair. I originally thought it was from dying it, so i stopped doing that all together. I’m 21 years old, and have always had a thick head of hair. We went to the doctors and we found out that i have an underactive thyroid, not by much, but for a 21 year old he said it should be higher, so now I have officially been on the medication for over a month now. My scalp is itchy, and I’m not sure if its from regrowth or loss of hair.

What is the deal with an itchy scalp? How long does it actually take for new hair to regrow? If it does, when will I see signs of it? Are there any other things that it could be?

thanks in advance! your site is very helpful!

If the cause of your hair loss and skin changes are from a thyroid condition, the hair loss may regrow in a year or so, but it may never recover to the point before the disease appeared. Unfortunately, all you can do is really just wait it out and keep following up with your doctors.

The skin condition needs to be looked at by a dermatologist. I couldn’t say if its due to your hair falling out (some people report that their scalp itches before losing hair, though that hasn’t been officially linked), but you wouldn’t see regrowth this quickly after starting treatment. Common causes of an itchy scalp can be found here.

I am a 30 year old female and I had an incident over a month ago when all my hair was violently yanked by my boyfriends 3 year old. I woke up the next morning and started losing hair. Since then my scalp has been burning so bad that I have thought about suicide. The hair fall out is very noticable and is all over the head. It hurts to go outside and I have also developed a white substance on my scalp, almost like a coating that I can scrape off with my nails. It’s gross and waxy. My head has a wierd, painful sensation and I literally can feel the hair detaching from my head. Sometimes I will just feel it fall and at other times I will have a sharp needle-like pain and the hair will fall out. I am so scared about what I have read on other sites.

What is this sensation/pain/burning and how do I stop the hair from falling out? Will my hair regrow or is this burning a sign that the follicles were damaged and I am doomed. I have always had a healthy, thick, beautiful head of hair that goes to the middle of my back. Now it’s falling out in handfuls. I have been to several doctors/derms and they said I’m fine or more accurately crazy for obsessing about it. No one is listening to me! Please help! Any advice? Thanks….

Okay, let’s stop and think about what you just wrote. You are thinking of suicide! Please seek the help of a professional who can help you with this issue. Either go see your psychiatrist/therapist or a physician than can assess your hair loss issue. If no doctors are listening to you, go find another doctor that will! This is obviously a very huge issue in your life right now, so don’t give up on solving it. Without an examination, there’s really not much more help I can provide over the internet, but I wish you good luck.

I can’t explain the intense burning you now feel, but the traumatic hair loss like you describe usually grows back in about one year. What is it that you read on various sites that has you so scared?

My daughter use a mousse hair product that she used for several years and had an allergic reaction. Her forehead, neck, scalp and eyelids peeled. A few weeks later she notices her hair falling out. She went to the derm and he prescribed topical treatments. They said it would take a few weeks to see results and less hair falling out because of the severe seborrea? Anything you tell her from your experience.

It’s possible to have an allergic reaction to hair products, but she used that particular product for years and then suddenly developed a severe allergy? If your daughter is under the care of a dermatologist already, he/she will have more experience with allergic reactions than I would. Besides, I don’t know what topical treatment/dosage was prescribed, nor do I even know what the allergy was.