Help! Help! Help!

[outstandinfarmer]

I'm 21 years old. For the past year I've been losing hair and the doctors can't figure out why it is happening. No one has ever lost their hair in my family so it's not heredity. It's not from medication or stress. They have no idea.

When I started a new job in January I noticed that most of the women were balding. Shortly after I started losing my hair too. It seemed like such a strange coincidence. I was sick everyday that I was at work so I finally quit six months later. I feel much better now, but the hair loss hasn't stopped. My endocrinologist has been running tests because she said there is something else going on but she's just not sure yet.

Has anyone ever heard of something in an office building causing hair loss?
Does anyone know what could possibly be causing this?

I've lost about 2/3 of the hair on my head and it's absolutely DEVASTATING!!!

Please help! I cry and cry and cry about it. I just don't know what to do anymore.

 

[EthansMom]

It's possible that you have Alopecia Areata. Alopecia is an autoimmune skin disease where your cells suddenly start rejecting your hair folicles as a foriegn substance.

I suffered from a bout of alopecia when I was about that age. Two friends noticed one day that I had a spot roughly the size of a fifty cent piece on the back of my head that was completely bald. Luckily, I was able to have it treated by a dermatologist (cortisone injections into my scalp caused the hair to regrow) and my long hair covered the bald spot until it grew back in.

Here's a link to the National Alopecia Areata Foundation: http://www.naaf.org/default2.asp

Good Luck!

 

[mtblujeans]

I have never heard of anything like what you are experiencing! Didn't any of your previous co-workers talk about their collective hair loss? When does the endocrinologist expect to get some test results that will answer some of your questions? I can't imagine how you are feeling about all of this....especially with no explanation!

 

[golfgal]

Where did you work and what did you do. It obviously was related to the job and what ever it was is still effecting you.

 

[outstandinfarmer]

I'm not losing it in circle like patches, I'm losing it all over my head. My hair is receding like a man's and it's gotten extremely thin everywhere. I find hair all over everything. My bed, my clothes - everywhere.

I worked in an office building doing clerical work. I don't think that any of the women put the pieces together that their hair was all thinning. Not all of the women had thinning hair, but it seemed more did than didn't --which I thought was so strange.

It's so hard for me to even read this. I get so sad.

 

[EthansMom]

 

[clarabelle]

You may want to look into polycystic ovary syndrome.
http://www.pcosupport.org/medical/whatis.php#symptoms

 

[Planogirl]

I was losing my hair big time for a while and the doctor I went finally determined that it was stress related. I know that yours supposedly isn't but try not to worry because that might only aggravate it.

By the way, my hair loss slowed down and most of my lost hair came back. My hair still comes out quickly but it grows back now.

 

[QueenTriton]

The endocronologist is a good starting place. I went through a similar problem - ended up a treatable thyroid disorder.

 

[outstandinfarmer]

I have Polycystic Ovaries. I am being treated for it. My docs say that the ovaries have nothing to do with my hair loss.

They say my thyroid is just fine. It's a dead end everywhere I turn.

 

[outstandinfarmer]

Bump. . . I need people's help

 

[aprild]

Bumping this to the first page for you. I wish i had some answers for you, but maybe some of the mornin Diser's can help.

 

[aprild]