harunokaze
December 27th, 2011, 02:07 PM
hey yall,
I've been having a problem with my hair for over a year now. I've tried everything I can think of and have been lurking several hair forums, but decided to throw one out to yall and see if anyone can help.
My hair was always think, long, dark brown growing up and through undergrad. About a year ago, my husband and I bought a house and moved in. I started working on my master's degree. Then I started noticing what I call "squiggly hairs" (kinky, coarse) at back of my head, around my neck. Then I started noticing them at the crown of my head and in my bangs. I started noticing more and more through my hair. These hairs are coarse, thick and black, and have a squiggly pattern instead of straight and smooth. I noticed that eventually, the crown of my head was the most concentrated location of damaged hairs (looks like it's been fried with a flat iron, but it hasn't). Then I started noticing hairs growing in baby fine, that get pulled out easily, with a slight squiggle and are golden brown in color. My hair was thinner and changing in weird ways.
Then I noticed my husbands hair had changed too. His golden blonde hair now had random black coarse hairs growing out, that were thick but not squiggly like mine. He has many baby fine blonde squiggly hairs.
We used the same products, then tried new ones. Tried leave in conditioners, deep conditioners, pretty much anything that we read online could help. Then we realized maybe it was our water we were showering with and drinking. We had known this area had hard water for some time, so we decided to get a whole home water softener installed. In case we were drinking too much chlorine in our water, we changed the filter in the refrigerator and had a reverse osmosis filtration system installed.
I cut my hair off, which had grown down to the small of my back, because it was so ugly and damaged and I thought the water softener would help. I wanted to start over growing my hair out again with soft water. But it's been months now with the water softener and it's not better for either of us. My hair is the worst, between the two of us. As someone who had great pride in my long hair, when it became so damaged I was upset. My hair stylist noticed it too when i went to get my hair cut and styled. she suggested clarifying shampoo, which I used, but noticed no difference. I know these hairs are growing in this way because I've tried pulling some of the squiggly hairs out and they grow back the same way. Neither of us take any RX meds that could cause this (he takes no RX at all) and my birth control has been the same RX for years, so I don't think it's hormones. I've had blood workup done within the past year for diabetes, thyroid, liver, etc and I have a clean bill of health (I'm a little over weight, but I work out regularly). We don't know what to do anymore!
If anyone can make any suggestions or has any ideas, please help!
I've been having a problem with my hair for over a year now. I've tried everything I can think of and have been lurking several hair forums, but decided to throw one out to yall and see if anyone can help.
My hair was always think, long, dark brown growing up and through undergrad. About a year ago, my husband and I bought a house and moved in. I started working on my master's degree. Then I started noticing what I call "squiggly hairs" (kinky, coarse) at back of my head, around my neck. Then I started noticing them at the crown of my head and in my bangs. I started noticing more and more through my hair. These hairs are coarse, thick and black, and have a squiggly pattern instead of straight and smooth. I noticed that eventually, the crown of my head was the most concentrated location of damaged hairs (looks like it's been fried with a flat iron, but it hasn't). Then I started noticing hairs growing in baby fine, that get pulled out easily, with a slight squiggle and are golden brown in color. My hair was thinner and changing in weird ways.
Then I noticed my husbands hair had changed too. His golden blonde hair now had random black coarse hairs growing out, that were thick but not squiggly like mine. He has many baby fine blonde squiggly hairs.
We used the same products, then tried new ones. Tried leave in conditioners, deep conditioners, pretty much anything that we read online could help. Then we realized maybe it was our water we were showering with and drinking. We had known this area had hard water for some time, so we decided to get a whole home water softener installed. In case we were drinking too much chlorine in our water, we changed the filter in the refrigerator and had a reverse osmosis filtration system installed.
I cut my hair off, which had grown down to the small of my back, because it was so ugly and damaged and I thought the water softener would help. I wanted to start over growing my hair out again with soft water. But it's been months now with the water softener and it's not better for either of us. My hair is the worst, between the two of us. As someone who had great pride in my long hair, when it became so damaged I was upset. My hair stylist noticed it too when i went to get my hair cut and styled. she suggested clarifying shampoo, which I used, but noticed no difference. I know these hairs are growing in this way because I've tried pulling some of the squiggly hairs out and they grow back the same way. Neither of us take any RX meds that could cause this (he takes no RX at all) and my birth control has been the same RX for years, so I don't think it's hormones. I've had blood workup done within the past year for diabetes, thyroid, liver, etc and I have a clean bill of health (I'm a little over weight, but I work out regularly). We don't know what to do anymore!
If anyone can make any suggestions or has any ideas, please help!