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Alopecia
I haven't gone to see a doctor yet, but I think I may have developed alopecia (areata). Has anyone had alopecia or knows anyone who's had it? Can it be cured?
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My sister had it many times. It seemed to be stressed related to her. The more stressed she got, the more her hair came out in clumps, usually in back of the head.
However the type you say you have according to what I found here on the web is auto-immune skin disease. Dr.s say it's passed on in your genetic makeup but that other issues can contribute to it. I hadn't heard of that version. But since its a genetic thing,, then perhaps there are parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins or grandparents with some kind of autoimmune disease if not skin related.
The parents don't have to have it for it to show in a child.
For example, my youngest daughter was born looking normal but by 3 weeks old, she had several big bright red bumps soft like water blisters on her head, one under an eye, one beside her nose. I asked the doctor and he had to look it up as it is fairly rare, passed on genetically and generally goes away on its own in a decade or so. It was called Hemangioma. I had none ever, my husband neither, nor my or his parents. So I had to assume other relatives. I've only recently discovered that I am the carrier genetic wise as I have ones that show up later in age and mine are tiny and on my torso but I have a niece who had one on her forearm so one of my parents carried it in their genetics but never had it.
My sister when she got rid of stress, got rid of her alopecia. However whenever she became stressed badly again long term, it happened again and the hair fell out in chunks.
Since you haven't seen a Dr. best to do so and find if you have one variety or the other. I havent heard of the areata type before. And I would think that is something there is no cure for being auto immune disease. If the regular type, you can work on how you handle stress, removing stressful situations from your life. But there may be many more things a Dr. can do today to help you with alopecia. The average person isn't stupid and often can usually figure out what is wrong or get close, in the same neighborhood. But we need Dr.s to know how to treat it. So if you believe yourself to have alopecia, theres a good chance you may be right. But you would still know how to treat it besides working on stress levels because sis got it often and sometimes stress free only relieved it a little but most times helped. I can't say what else she needed but thats why seeing a Dr. is important. If by chance you have figured it wrong and its something else, it might be very easy to treat or a totally different treatment altogether and nothing to do with stress. Doing nothing and the alopecia will remain. Self treat by guessing and its a 50-50 chance of it staying or accidently getting better, see a Dr. and you will know if it can be treated or not, and if so...what will cure it. Your choice
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