Help Severe Hair Loss

Sheryl · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:34 pm Post subject:

I get the Nioxin at a store in the mall called Trade Secrets - its sort of a Beauty Supply store. It's about $14 each for shampoo ("cleanser") and conditioner ("scalp therapy")

vernb2 · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:16 pm Post subject:

thanks Sheryl I went to the local Pharmacy and they didnt have it...I will try Sally Beuaty Supply.

SoleSinger · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:28 pm Post subject:

Sally Beauty won't have it. They will have a knock off but it isn't as good and it dries your hair out more.
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vernb2 · Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 12:14 am Post subject:

Will other Pharmacys have it then? Or do I have to order it off line?

SoleSinger · Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:38 am Post subject:

No only salons will have it... Cost Cutters, Fantastic Sams, maybe Great Clips... Or any other salon should have it.

I think you CAN order it online, but I don't know for sure.
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vernb2 · Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:43 am Post subject:

I did find it online
http://order.store.yahoo.net/ymix/MetaController.html?ysco_key_event_id=&ysco_key_store_id=yhst-54356107628685&sectionId=ysco.cart

vernb2 · Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:49 am Post subject:

This is another place I found Nioxin online
http://store.hello-gorgeous.net/nibiac.html

SoleSinger · Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:04 am Post subject:

If nothing else you want the cleanser and the scalp therapy. And when you use it, you don't need much of each, it's VERY concentrated and should last you a long time!
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littlered · Wolf Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 549

Like Sheryl, I had my hairstylist give me a short "spike" cut...it's trendy and when I spike it with gel, the bald spots and the short hairs just blend in. Of course, I look like Dr. Seuss's Thing One and Thing Two, but what the heck.
with this last awful flare, even with Nioxin I am losing more and more hair. I don't think I will go with the wig thing...just too uncomfortable and too hot, and besides, I've never seen wigs that didn't somehow LOOK like wigs.
What I'm going to do instead is buy the most gorgeous silk scarves I can find in brilliant colors and wear them with STYLE AND PANACHE! Heck, maybe I'll start dressing in flowing black things and talking with a wierd foreign accent. Laughing

vernb2 · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:02 pm Post subject:

I continue to battle the hair loss...and after I bought my Nioxin my hairdresser told me to save my money....it doesnt work...if you hair is traumatized (by lupus chemo or whatever) nothing topical will stop it from falling out. She said it was like hitting your fingernail with a hammer....it will fall off no matter what you do. I have a bald spot on the left side of my crown in back....a severe discoid killed the folicles and I was told by the derm the hair will NOT grow back there ever. I deal with it...and pray the thinning stops sometime soon. I think i may go shorter just so it doesnt look like so MUCH hair...right now it is past my shoulders. But if I go spiked the golf ball sized bald spot will be very noticable.
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buddhabelly · Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:48 pm Post subject:

I apologize for being so vain but I have a question about haircuts and hairstyles. Confused

The hair that I've lost is slowly growing back. Most of the hair that fell out were mostly at the back of my head. The hairs on top of my head is still pretty full, which helps because when I comb it back, covers the thin spots. I used to have long thick hair, but now its very thin. I've noticed that the patches of hair that's growing back is healthy and soft, just wish it can grow a bit faster, but I can't complain because IT IS growing back. Smile

Has anyone changed their haircut or hairstyle due to their hairloss or thinning hair? If so, what haircut did you decide on? I can only think of cutting it short, but not too short. Dont want a boycut. I'm just bored and tired of putting my little ponytail into a itsy bitsy bun. Can't keep it down in a ponytail because its so thin, none of my hair ties can hold it. I need your help! Any suggestions? Confused

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vernb2 · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:21 am Post subject:

I am in the same boat...always had thick hair...mine is still past my shoulders but I am very thin on top. I wear a lot of head scargs...because my hair is long it gives the illusion that I have hair. I went to my hair dresser about a month ago ...I have gone to her for 20 plus years....she cried when she washed my hair....her hands were just covered with hair! She just gave me a trim, because she said at least i could cover up the thin spots. But I am tired of it. With the hair longer it seems like so much more laying all over the place. She says it is growing back but that it is falling out a lot faster than it is growing back. I am tired of sweeping up hair. I have three long haired cats and it is bad when there is more "my" hair than cat hair!
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littlered · Wolf Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 549

I have utmost apologies to make here.....

In the past, especially in my posts, I've been somewhat "flippant" in my remarks about my feelings re: hair loss. Trying to keep up a brave front, saying I would just treat it like "c'est la vie,"...etc... I've used Nioxin but it hasn't helped me much. Lucky to those of you it did!

Well, being in the hospital with all the other problems, I didn't really want to talk (or think about) my hair. After all, we can live without hair, but we can't live without healthy GI tracts, lungs, bones, etc, right?

My hair loss was already getting bad when I got here. With the solumedrol, it has become UNREAL! Great gobs of it on my pillow all the time, all over my clothes, in the bathroom, on the floor...you get the picture. My trendy, spiky cut (which wasn't supposed to have a part) now has a natural 3-inch wide part in it. (see my latest Haiku)
I am freaked, but trying not to act like it, because my HUSBAND is so freaked out by it. I have tried in many ways to "warn" him this day would come, but nothing really prepared him for this. (He was sweeping up the hairs from my bed and pillow last night and crying, "How can you be so brave? I am the one who's supposed to be going bald!")

Question for you all: I do NOT want to go to wigs. I think they are hot, uncomfortable, expensive, and have almost never seen one that didn't look like a wig. I couldn't afford it anyhow.

Should I just go to my hairdresser and have her give me a buzz cut and get it all over with? With my spike cut, the bald places are going to show and look awful anyhow. Plus, it's still falling out, so who knows what will be left?

I have experimented with scarves. Right now all I have is a black one, but when I wrap and tie it, and put makeup on (I have a great bone structure) I see possibilities of looking exotic and kind of pretty. I tried looking up silk scarves on the net....whoooo expensive. Maybe I could go and buy the fabric in the colors of my choice (I'm thinking brilliant hues of turquoise and electric blue and purple and fuscia) and have somebody hem them? And are there any books on interesting ways to do scarves?

I know this is a stupid, trivial subject, but I still want to look beautiful...to my husband and to everybody and TO ME!!!! Thanks for your replies.

vernb2 · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:51 pm Post subject:

Honey I feel your pain! I still have hair but am headed your way fast...it just keeps falling out. I got Nioxin so far not much help....I also have drops for my head....I too am tempted to just get it chopped off. I really feel that my hair has suffered trauma and nothing I will do will stop the traumatized hair from falling out. I guess the fear of just "getting it over with" is...what if it doesnt grow back? It is one thing to feel like sh*%t do I really have to look like sh@#t too? Plus I have the very bad butterfly rash on my face....rough red rash....I don't know if I can deal with a bald head AND a red scaley face too!
I guess I feel like many women...like the less hair i have the less of a woman I am.
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littlered · Wolf Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 549

Oh, we are still very much WOMEN--just "follicularly challenged" ones....
Think of all the bald MEN we know...they live thier lives just as if they had hair. Think of *Meat Flute* Cheney---ooo, bad example. Laughing

What I may do is have my stylist give me a buzz cut exept for the little fringe around my face and neckline....that way when I wear a scarf or hat, a *little* hair still shows....
I dunno...sigh...I used to be so vain about my hair.