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Good to hear from you Liz. So pleased the improvement is continuing.

Keep in touch all of you.

Angelsong

Hi all,

I hadn't realised Gail P's hair has grown back, how lovely for her.

Glad your hair is returning Angelsong and pleased that you were comfortable in your wig, Linda. Do talk to your doc about vit d when you go back next week.

I am having a further vit d jab on Tuesday and am still taking the calcium and vit d tabs, new female doc says they are for maintenance between jabs and will keep me on 6 monthly jabs for the time being. I haven't had a chance to get my blood test done yet but that will show how things are too, doc said not to wait for that but to have another jab so that's what's happening.

My new hair growth is about 2-3 inches now, a bit curly at the ends as it has no weight to it so it sticks out a bit from my smooth if thin short bob style. I still have some thinner patches at one side, not the side I sleep on funnily enough but I went to a different hairdresser and she said she could see lots of new hair coming through on that side, just a bit slower than the rest. I definitely have a lot more hair on top so my parting isn't quite so wide now lol

Good luck to all suffering with this problem.

I am sure YCaz won't mind me saying that since I put her on to the vit d track and she was prescribed the tablets she tells me her hair is thickening up a bit too.

Despite being a Leo, I will never have a mane of hair but then I never did so will be happy with more bumfluff coming slowly and steadily lol

Lizx

Thank you for your response Lindain. Glad you feel OK about your wig, bvut hope that the medics are able to get to the bottom of your situation.

Love

Angelsong

Hi Angelsong
So glad to read that you have seen some improvement in your own hair.
Long may it continue.

Myself.................. well the wig is wonderful. It is part of my daily routine now and I never have a bad hair day, you know when it lies the wrong way etc.
My daughter was married 3 weeks ago(where has that time gone ? ) and everyone said how well I looked !!! Some knew about the hair others just thought I'd a new cut or a new hairdresser.
It has been life changing and I am comfortable with it, though I do miss what I used to have.

I am back to my Dr on Tuesday and will let him see just how bad it has got since nobody seems to have any thoughts on why I am loosing it at all. Even with the thyroid problems.

Linda :o) XxX

Not posted on this thread for some time, but just a quick update. Watched an interview with Gail Porter a few days since, her hair has grown back, and I am thrilled for her.

My own hair is thickening up on the top, and curling again. I have been taking Vitamin C tablets, Omega 3 capsules and zinc. Even the girl who cuts my hair is remarking on the difference.

Angelsong.

Julie Ann and Liz, thank you for your replies. I have to have my bloods checked every six months, and thyroid is one which they check for, always negative.

The Betacap lotion is very effective. OH puts it on twice a day. There is just one small patch left.

Hair still very thin at the sides, so when , psoriasis is gone, shall go back to the Regaine, which the medical profession do not seem to think does any good, but my hair is definitely thicker on top.

Glad your hair is still coming through Liz.

All the best

Angelsong

Hi Angelsong, I am cross with myself, I saw your post earlier and meant to look out a letter I read recently in a magazine, about psoriasis on the scalp. It recommended a certain product and can I find the info, can I heck?
Maybe it was in a magazine I saw somewhere recently, may have been at the counselling place so if I can't find it in one of my mags. here will have a look on Monday. It was someone who was having just the same sort of problem as you.

My hair is still sprouting, I am sure it is thicker on top but still have a very thin patch on one side, a bit like a new baby gets when they sleep on one side all the time and the hair rubs away, but hoping it will grow more there too, very soon. Trouble is my hair looks messy as I have it all one length and the new hair sort of sticks out at the ends, I suppose it is growing through more like grey hair becomes, wirier etc.

Mustn't grumble, will try and find the info and let you know

Lizx

im sure zinc is good for it too,

have you had blood checked at docs

i read on here this week how thyroid imbalance can cause this,
and thats easy remedied with medication

opps bit late with my advice, lol
glad you saw your gp,
that can be painful im told, psoriasis

Just to refresh this thread. On Easter Sunday I noticed some lumps on my scalp, which itched like mad. We were out for the afternoon, so OH examined them when we got home. Looks like psoriasis, he said. All I needed! Managed to get to see the GP on the Tuesday, who confirmed this. Now got Betacap to apply twice a day. It is working wonders, very fast stuff.

The only different hair product I have used is a hair spray (when I have washed my hair), couldn't believe the psoriasis, after the consultant said I had a healthy scalp.

Friend who is a hairdresser has told me to use cotton pillow cases, and not wear nylor near my head. She recommends Silvikrin hair spray.

Liz, how are you doing now?

Angelsong

Thanks for your comprehensive reply, Liz.

All the best for your appointment.

Angelsong

Last autumn my doctor sent me for yet another blood test because of my constant tiredness and my hair falling out, and said it was now realised that lack of vit. d could cause problems so I would be tested for that too as well as all the other usual tests.
Lo and behold, results came back that I was low in vit d so she started me on tablets, but later spoke to the consultant husband of a new gp in the surgery and learned that a large injection of vit d could be more beneficial. I had that in October or early November and altho it has done nothing for the tiredness, as I said earlier, it seems to have started some hair growth off. Will get her to look when I go to see her again soon and make sure it is new growth but I don't think it is broken off hair or my parting would be even wider and thankfully at the mo, it isn't lol

I have just made an apptmt for next week at 5pm - will be a rush as I don't get out from my counselling till ten to and it's miles away, but as the receptionist said, it's the last apptmt and we all know my doctor runs very late by then so I should be able to get there in time.
Will let you know what she thinks about the stubby stuff!

LIzx

Liz, I am not quite clear about the vitamin d you mention. Was it an injection of vitamin d, or tablets you have taken? I am certain my GP will not give me anything else, for before referring me to the clinic I have just attended, he said there was nothing more he could do for me.

I hope you have real success with your new growth!

Best wishes

Angel

Angel, well I suppose it's a relief to save the Regaine cost and know nothing you are doing or did will make things worse.
I don't think I lose 100 hairs a day so maybe I am worrying too much and making things worse. I am sure it is the stress I am under that causes mine altho I know it's partly hereditary as Mum's was the same, altho I suppose she was quite stressed too with one thing and another in her life, including having me for a daughter, my brother's said the worry about me caused her heart attack!

I must admit I do seem to have a lot of short hairs sticking up all over, so unless lots more hair is breaking off at the same point, it looks as if the vit d worked and new stuff is growing. Now if no hair fell out and the new hair carries on growing my parting might look more normal soon and not like someone has stormed through a cornfield leaving a great wide pathway lol

Have a wedding to attend in August so want it to look better for that as I don't think it will be a hat type of wedding, mind I could always do different as the Norfolk saying goes lol

Lizxx

I have been to see the Consultant today regarding my hair loss. He had a good look at my scalp, said it was in good condition, and that there was no other cause for the decreasing hair loss other than ageing.

I asked several questions, could I put rollers in, use a hairdryer, and put conditioner, and mousse on it. He said it would make no difference, and that one hundred hairs per day were lost from our scalps! He also advised me to stop using Regaine, which is a relief, as it costs sixteen pounds per private prescription. He wanted to know how much stress I had in my life.

So, no remedies, sadly, but wanted you all to know what transpired.

All the best to you all.

Angel

I do wish I had kept the dark pageboy one, I remember buying it in Peter Robinson's in the late 1960's so it might have looked a bit motheaten by now lol

Lizx

We went to dinner at a neighbours last night.I thought how nice 'E's hair looked.She has had very thin hair where you c an see the scalp.She is only early 50s .I am pretty sure she was wearing a wig and it looked fantastic.

Well I saw a riend on Friday for tea and although she knew I was thinking of having a wig she thought i'd had my hair "done". I did tell her as she recommended the shop. She said it looked really good.
In the afternoon I saw somebody else that I haven't seen or a few months, she was actually bringing a Christmas gift. Well she said how much better I looked and had my hair been highlighted!!! No I didn't enlighten her.

Yesterday I met up with my daughters future mother in law and her Mum to go and get some things or the wedding in June. Again they said my hair looked nice.................... had I had a change and had it coloured. I did tell them as they will be around for the wedding.

I hope to go this week and get a second wig so I'll not be let uncomortable i one blows away while I'm on holiday or whatever. Not really it fits like a very snug hat and I haven't felt it would come of at all.

I'll keep you posted.

Linda :o) XxX

I am hoping it continues to sprout, lol and that my hair looks better this summer than last year.

Lizx

Liz your "half inch fluffy stuff" sounds most encouraging.

Angelsong

Linda, I am so pleased you have your wig and got such enthusiastic comments about it too. I wish I still had the one I bought years ago, it was my original colour but I think I sold it to a friend of mine way back. It was pageboy style so would have done a treat. When I wore it it was because I hadn't had time to do my own hair, but oh dear, so embarrassing. I wore it to go out to a dancehall, and had this lovely lad smooching with me, he would keep stroking my hair at the back tho, and every so often I had to tug the fringe to get the wig back in place lol I don't think he realised tho but I beat a hasty retreat as soon as the dance finished lol and hid in the cloakroom for a while lol
I have a hairpiece that fixes on with a comb, like a ponytail, that makes me sad as again it was a perfect match for my own hair colour and now I am so grey and couldn't possibly use it.

An elderly lady who has died now, asked if I wanted her wig that she no longer bothered to wear, she had little hair but didn't mind much at the age of 88 bless her. I brought it home and washed it but it isn't really a style I ever wore and not sure I would feel comfy in it. Might dig it out and try it tho.

Got a message from my doctor when I just emailed her to ask if she had heard about the vit d jab, she was supposed to find out how long it takes to have an effect.

This was her response (she was awake too and online lol)

"did check it out. The problem is that this is a very new treatment and they said that they were finding that patients were not feeling better instantly but as it was so new they did not know how long it would take.

When I hear anything further I will let you know."

I will be seeing her soon so will ask her to look and see what she thinks, I do seem to have some tufty stuff about half an inch long that won't lie flat so might be working!

Lizx