Two weeks before I discovered the spots.
It was March 9, it is almost going to be a month and I just now find the peace of mind to sit down and write about my experience with Alopecia Areata.
This is the day when I first noticed the bald spots. I know now that the condition most likely appeared time before I made such discovery… maybe a week, maybe two weeks, maybe more. But this was the night when it became a reality to me, a reality that has been very difficult to get out of my head… literally.
I was in the living room talking to Jeff, my husband, just casually chatting of whatever had happened back home in Havana during our vacation in Mexico and the U.S. I was relaxed, enjoying the evening and running my fingers through my hair when… boom! I felt a smooth space in my scalp in a place where everything I should have felt was hair. But no, this spot was clean and smooth.
I ran to the bathroom and used two mirrors to be able to see the back of my head, and sure enough there it was a small bald spot.
I started to touch the rest of my head and… boom again! I felt another, this last one almost in the top of my head in the side of the hairline and bigger than the first one. I didn’t need two mirrors to see this one, it was clearly visible and it looked bad.
I was in panic.
My only experience with baldness like this had been in high school, when one of my classmates started to develop bald patches that quickly turned into total body baldness, I mean as far as I know this friend doesn’t even have nose hairs.
I was very afraid and picturing the worst scenarios possible, it was almost like it was not happening to me, like if I was dreaming.
Jeff, my husband, tried to calm me down and advice to call my brother, a neurologist in Mexico. I did. When he answered the phone I told him in a state of panic that I had discovered two bald spots in my head. “Don’t worry,” he said “it is Alopecia Areata most likely triggered by stress. The most important thing for you to do now is calm down.”
That has been for sure the most difficult challenge in the month since this started: to calm down.
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I remember this horror. It made me want to cry reading about yours. Areata does sometimes go away on its own. There is a combination of vitamins made by a company called “Fusion Health” that I have had some success with. You need to take the Women’s Balance and the Multivitamin.
Actually, I just went online and found a girl on you tube talking about it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwUy4eJahWE. I am in Australia and have no problem getting them, but I think you can also order them online. Give it a go…at least it’s healthy. (oh and by the way, I am not a rep of the company). There is plenty more on the net about it as well – some really good success stories! Jen
Thanks so much for the advice Jen… I will definetly try it.
I have universalis and was on it for about 6 months. My hair was growing really well. Just make sure you stay on it!! It fell out again when I failed to take them for a couple of months. Starting again now..well worth it!