I recently joined an Alopecia-Areata support group online at mdjunction.com I posted that I was here to help and was happily surprised to receive my first question from a young 14 year old with Alopecia. Her first question to me asked if my hair ever grew back
my response:
"when i still had the majority of my hair the bald patches would grow back a little but unfortunately never all of it. my mom seems to think that we might have over done it going from one treatment to another too quickly. i honestly wasn't super diligent about applying the medication every night which i regret. i was either too lazy or the medicine would really iritate my scalp (which i guess it was supposed to do) but i remember i would dread it sometimes. my parents literally tried everything from rubbing raw garlic on my bald spots, to the lastest and greatest medicines out there from the top dermatologists, to sending me to witch doctors/faith healers - geez the stories i could tell - it would crack you up."
it really would crack you up - especially if you have Alopecia too. my earliest memory of a "treatment" was my wonderful mother literally crushing a fresh garlic clove and rubbing it onto my bald spots. how silly does that sound? to her credit, she really was about trying anything and garlic is supposed to be super healthy i guess. i remember once she was applying it on my scalp when my grandfather was over watching and he made a joke about how he just needed some vinegar and we'd have a dipping sauce for lumpia (a pilipino egg roll). see how random my childhood memories are?
