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New Member Section => Introductions => Topic started by: internationalguru on September 05, 2013, 07:49:14 AM

Title: My story and partial success/recovery
Post by: internationalguru on September 05, 2013, 07:49:14 AM
Hey Everyone!

My name is Rob and I've been suffering from alopecia areata for 8 years. This started to happen near the end of high school until now. During these 8-9 years I've been known as the "hat guy" or if anyone has seen my hair before they would question what happened immaediately. Over the course of 8 years, my hair has fell and regain and fell out again. Regains happen for certain spots quite often but falls off within 1-2 months. I've tried many solutions from the injection shots to the cream and then to chinese medicine and even the traditional "secret" chinese ways and none of them have worked. I pretty much gave up after many attempts of different formulas, but then recently about half a year ago I started noticing a trend. I'm a programmer so I have to work in the office or at home quite often and I noticed that my hair falls out more when I'm stuck in a room for a long time. I'm not stressed out, but just the environment in general. So, I tried two things out, one was where a friend reccomended me to buy this humidifer that was portable and that I can carry around. Here's the humidifer amzn.to/1dJDlAy  (http://amzn.to/1dJDlAy) So I pretty much had this with me everywhere I went. The second thing I tried along with the humidifer was to use toothpaste and a toothbrush to brush my scalp. I figured that the chinese medicine have been using a lot of toothpaste on other medical treatments so I decided to see if I could give the burn a try. After about two months almost all my hair came back and havent fell off for 4 months now. I still have a few dime size spots here and there but I can outgrow it and just cover it. Hope this helps!
Title: Re: My story and partial success/recovery
Post by: Tyler on September 05, 2013, 05:40:35 PM
Hey Wilson, welcome to SBG. Any chance you can provide us with some before and after pictures?  I've never heard of toothpaste working on anything like this. 
Title: Re: My story and partial success/recovery
Post by: 50plus on September 07, 2013, 06:12:16 AM
hi Rob. Thanks for sharing your story. I too have not heard of the toothpaste idea. With respect I think the chance of it

working are about the same as me gaining a metre in height by tomorrow morning. Well ok ..you have a slightly better chance

than that.

Bob, I too have had alopecia for roughly the same amount of time as you. I was not a hat person however but rather a wig

(hair program) guy. I buzzed and finally shaved the lot x number of weeks ago and I'm not exaggerating when I say that I've

never experienced this level of happiness for a long, long time. I can't tell you what to do but I saw a lot of me in your story.

I was nineteen and her name was Renee. She was perfect. (referring to the long long time ago mentioned above)