Female Baldness And Covid

a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

That is how mine started. I was given a new medication that was supposed to help with my migraines.

It started the cycle of my hair loss, it slowed down after I stopped the medication, but I am still losing my hair at a much faster rate than what is considered natural.

I tried to fight it but it got to be painfully obvious when I kept my hair long. I couldn't stand it anymore, so I cried while the hair dresser chopped off my hair.

Best thing I could have done, under the circumstances. I look so much younger. No fuss
Quick and easy. I love it.

Just made a little lemonade out of lemons handed to me.

a reply to: IAMTAT

Nothing is attributed to anything but covid, everything is a covid side effect now, weeee.

Whatever her age is, tell her to focus on logic and ground herself with it, because obviously her doctor didn't. Because if that hack is right, I didn't lose gobs of hair from pregnancy hormones, it was covid!
12 years ago.
And I don't lose gobs of hair during **seasonal shifts, it's covid!

**Never had that happen down south, but once I got a few season changes into living up north here, I noticed I was shedding like nobody's business. I have yet to GAF enough to look into the whys, but I suspect it has something to do with the stark differences of seasonal sun angles & thus UV light reaching me here in MI compared to FL. I have a very thick head of hair, so I'm not particularly sad when it thins out. My damn hair is so thick (and also coarse) that it's hard for even the pros at salons to cut it well without obvious delineation lines between layers.

I envy the hell out the thin-haired women. You aren't missing anything worthwhile, follicle density-based volume is highly overrated

originally posted by: paraphi
Well, teogen effluvium is a condition which often follows illness, not just Covid-19. Here's the description from the British Dermatologists...

Yep, and is caused by high prolonged stress - the kind that some people are experiencing from the ridiculous fear-mongering about this silly plandemic.

originally posted by: tanstaafl

originally posted by: paraphi
Well, teogen effluvium is a condition which often follows illness, not just Covid-19. Here's the description from the British Dermatologists...

Yep, and is caused by high prolonged stress - the kind that some people are experiencing from the ridiculous fear-mongering about this silly plandemic.

Yeah uh Hef...hahahaha

Well I am not sure why my post was removed but I will ask you this.

Is it a real virus?

Hopefully that won't be removed by another conservative mod...Hef

I was sick for three weeks back in January. Way before anyone here knew about COVID. We just knew that a really rough kind of flu went through our family after getting together for the holidays. I self quarantined for a month because I was a caregiver for a relative that had cancer. I never left the house for a full month. I lived in the recliner all day. It took me even longer to feel like I was getting back to where I had been!

I had a horrible cough. Thought that I was going to cough up a lung! Even tasted blood. I had no appetite. No fever that I know of. No sneezing or runny nose. Achy all over & really tired & weak. It wasn’t like anything that I had in my whole life & I’m old!

Two or three months afterward, my hair started coming out by the brush full! I always brush my hair before I get into the shower. And brush it again after I blow dry it. I wash my brush every time that I wash my hair. Never any amount before to catch my attention. All of a sudden I would have a brush full of hair after I brushed it. And a little more after I dried it! That has never happened before! I had five kids, never lost any hair. Was life flighted & in the hospital for a month, never lost any hair! But all of a sudden I was losing hair like crazy!

I bought a different kind of shampoo a month or two before at the dollar store. Suave strawberry something. So I quit using that just in case. I take vitamin D & zinc every day, & a few other things off & on. I started taking biotin too.
After about a week it went back to normal. Fast forward a few months to Alyssa Milano being on TV saying her hair was falling out after having Covid...hmmm! Another symptom to wonder about!

It just so happened that my yearly doctor appointment was in May. We were talking & she said that she had had COVID. We were comparing symptoms & she suggested that I have the antibody test. I was wondering if I had really had it, so I did. But it came back negative! So now what? I did read that the antibody tests are only about 40% accurate! Sooo...did I have it or not? Was it the shampoo or something else? I could stop taking the biotin & use the shampoo again to see what happens! But I don’t want to lose anymore hair!!!

The weird part is, that now my hair feels thinner. Not overall, but the individual strands feel so much finer than they did before. Like the texture of my hair even changed. I know that’s impossible, but it sure feels that way! Just so weird the whole way around! 😳

WOQ

originally posted by: abeverage
Well I am not sure why my post was removed but I will ask you this.

Is it a real virus?

I don't know.

What I do know is that there is no reliable test for it, and that the CFR is way, way, way lower than we've been told for months, more on the order of - what many of us have been saying - a bad flu season.

originally posted by: wasobservingquietly
It just so happened that my yearly doctor appointment was in May. We were talking & she said that she had had COVID. We were comparing symptoms & she suggested that I have the antibody test. I was wondering if I had really had it, so I did. But it came back negative! So now what? I did read that the antibody tests are only about 40% accurate!

Anyone who cannot see that any test that is unreliable is basically worthless is - intellectually challenged.

a reply to: IAMTAT
Can it be genetics? I recently found out some black people cant even get their hair wet, it will fall out if they do.

a reply to: tanstaafl

Salty much??? 🙄

Is the test unreliable, or do we just have to narrow the testing parameters?
They are still learning new things about the virus. Humans are an arrogant lot. They do tend to think that they know it all! This virus was an eye opener for many of them!

Since I had the antibody test, they have found that some people’s antibodies only last for a short time. Since I took the test four months after I was sick, it’s possible that my antibodies were already gone. That doesn’t make the test unreliable, it just means that maybe there is a certain timeframe in which the testing should be done. The more they learn, the more we know! Easy Peasy! 😉

WOQ

originally posted by: wasobservingquietly
a reply to: tanstaafl

Salty much??? 🙄

No, I'm a pepper guy...

Is the test unreliable, or do we just have to narrow the testing parameters?

It is highly unreliable. It is not even texting for SARS-Cov-2.

They are still learning new things about the virus. Humans are an arrogant lot. They do tend to think that they know it all!

Your words... and I agree. So maybe you should stop acting and talking as if you know everything.

Since I had the antibody test, they have found that some people’s antibodies only last for a short time.

No, they suspect this to be the case. They do not know.

Incidentally - I don't trust any of these lying asshats, All they have done is make up crap about it to scare everyone of a virus that is at worst a little more lethal than a bad flu, but certainly nowhere even remotely close to the 3%, 5% or 15-20% that many were espousing.