Emila
December 31st, 2023, 02:33 AM
Hi lovely longhaired peeps
I have been having scalp issues for ages now. I haven't been in here much because I'm just kind of down and giving on my hair.
I had hair loss for serveral months following covid, telogen effluveum, it finally stopped and about the same time it stopped I got another issue.
I have been to my doctor several times but I'm really not happy with how that's going.
So I'm getting bald patches. I thinks its a result of a scalp condition. I am getting sore bumps occaisionnally, and the scalp seems to be raised and very sensitive in patches, then the skin in the area turns scaly and I get a bald spot. My doctor was initially unconcerned, saying it was mild dermatitus and the hair would grow back, prescribed steroid creams. But both the creams he precribed actualy made the condition worse.
I'm using medicated shampoo which I think helps but I'm not sure. It's still happening.
I don't have dandruf. I don't have flakey bits of skin in my hair. I just have localised patches of dryness that are scaly and a bit rough - like the skin is burred, and the area is bald.
I've had to change how I part my hair and the bald areas are increasing in size and in number. I personally think its some kind of infection as I think it is "spreading" somehow. I feel I get a little relief from putting some tea tree oil on the patches - it seems to dry them out more but I think stops the spread. But it could just be all in my head. Whatever it is, it seems like the spreading is inevitable and I can't stop it.
consulting doctor google, I wonder if its folliculitis. the patchyness of it seems like that. But I don't know if my hair follicules are infected like that. I dont have pimples or white heads visible at all. I do get very occaisional sore bumps but they seem to be deeper under the skin than the pictures for follicultis.
I asked my doctor for a referal to see a dermatologist and they want to do a biopsy instead of a referral. I initially agreed to this but now I'm worried I'm going to go too bald before I get the answers and treatment I need. I'm really starting to panic.
I don't think the hair is growing back. I am staying bald in the patches.
Has anyone ever experienced something like this?
My hair is finally approaching long but now its getting thinner and thinner, one way or another, and these bald patches, I know I might seem vain but I'm really sad and its affecting my confidence.
I am getting bloods done and eveything too... I have had a lot of stress for a long period of time and clinical anxiety and other mental health diagnoses... but I don't think its stress because of the symtpms indicate some kind of scalp condition to me.
I have never experienced this before. I wonder if I have got this from trying to do long hair techniques ironically - like sleeping with wet hair because my hair takes sooo long to dry naturally. I've recently started blow drying my scalp after washing because I think damp scalp isn't good for it but I don't know, I'm probably just paranoid about everything now.
Im just venting really. but if anyone else has experienced this please share your experience?:(
thanks heaps for listening
I have been having scalp issues for ages now. I haven't been in here much because I'm just kind of down and giving on my hair.
I had hair loss for serveral months following covid, telogen effluveum, it finally stopped and about the same time it stopped I got another issue.
I have been to my doctor several times but I'm really not happy with how that's going.
So I'm getting bald patches. I thinks its a result of a scalp condition. I am getting sore bumps occaisionnally, and the scalp seems to be raised and very sensitive in patches, then the skin in the area turns scaly and I get a bald spot. My doctor was initially unconcerned, saying it was mild dermatitus and the hair would grow back, prescribed steroid creams. But both the creams he precribed actualy made the condition worse.
I'm using medicated shampoo which I think helps but I'm not sure. It's still happening.
I don't have dandruf. I don't have flakey bits of skin in my hair. I just have localised patches of dryness that are scaly and a bit rough - like the skin is burred, and the area is bald.
I've had to change how I part my hair and the bald areas are increasing in size and in number. I personally think its some kind of infection as I think it is "spreading" somehow. I feel I get a little relief from putting some tea tree oil on the patches - it seems to dry them out more but I think stops the spread. But it could just be all in my head. Whatever it is, it seems like the spreading is inevitable and I can't stop it.
consulting doctor google, I wonder if its folliculitis. the patchyness of it seems like that. But I don't know if my hair follicules are infected like that. I dont have pimples or white heads visible at all. I do get very occaisional sore bumps but they seem to be deeper under the skin than the pictures for follicultis.
I asked my doctor for a referal to see a dermatologist and they want to do a biopsy instead of a referral. I initially agreed to this but now I'm worried I'm going to go too bald before I get the answers and treatment I need. I'm really starting to panic.
I don't think the hair is growing back. I am staying bald in the patches.
Has anyone ever experienced something like this?
My hair is finally approaching long but now its getting thinner and thinner, one way or another, and these bald patches, I know I might seem vain but I'm really sad and its affecting my confidence.
I am getting bloods done and eveything too... I have had a lot of stress for a long period of time and clinical anxiety and other mental health diagnoses... but I don't think its stress because of the symtpms indicate some kind of scalp condition to me.
I have never experienced this before. I wonder if I have got this from trying to do long hair techniques ironically - like sleeping with wet hair because my hair takes sooo long to dry naturally. I've recently started blow drying my scalp after washing because I think damp scalp isn't good for it but I don't know, I'm probably just paranoid about everything now.
Im just venting really. but if anyone else has experienced this please share your experience?:(
thanks heaps for listening