Female Hair Loss

Three Personal Stories, Part I

By the age of 60, up to half of all women will start experiencing some kind of hair loss. But female hair loss can actually begin much earlier than that – in your 20s, 30s and 40s. In fact, it could be happening to you right now.

Genetic, or inherited, hair loss in women starts like this:

First, your previously healthy looking normally growing hair starts to look a little thin and lifeless. Then you start to notice more hair than usual is coming out in the hairbrush or in the shower.

One day it dawns on you, as you look at the crown or back of your head in the mirror, that there's a lot more scalp showing through than before. A hair loss pattern has begun to set in.

Regardless of when female hair loss sets in, it's always a horrible moment of realization that your days of growing new hair to replace shed hair have stopped. Womens’ hair loss can deliver a sharp blow to your confidence and self image. But it doesn't have to be that way.

What are the options regarding growing hair? (or at least reducing the rate of thinning hair) Here are the stories of three women with inherited female hair loss

Three Women’s Hair Loss Stories and Strategies for Growing Hair (or at least reducing the rate of thinning hair)

1. Helen is a 55-year-old who has always had fine, baby-soft hair. But as she got older, her hair became extremely sparse. Her hairdresser found it harder and harder to cover up her scalp as she had stopped growing new hair to replace the naturally shedding hair. While working through Helen’s remaining strands, she told Helen about hair loss in women -- how she likely wouldn't go bald like men, but that it would gradually become thinner and more difficult to manage. Helen decided to do something about it (to be continued.)

2. Wendy, 41, is an ambitious career woman working in a busy real estate office. Her hair is still very important to her. Her hair was an integral part of the professional image she projects to her clients. She thought she had dodged the genetic bullet of hair loss in women in her family. But when her hairline started receding at the temples and getting thin all over, she knew she could not grow a full head of hair without some help. It was now time to face the music (to be continued.)

3. Carly is a 28-year-old mother of three young children who also works part time as a social worker. When she started to notice the signs of increasing hair loss last year, she chalked it up to job stress and unbalanced hormones from her last pregnancy. But when she talked it over with her mother, she discovered that her hair growing problem might not be due to pregnancy. The condition runs in her family. The women, she found, were just as likely as the men to experience hair loss. But Carly resolved that it was NOT going to happen to her (to be continued.)

Find out how these three women decided to handle their hair loss issues, what treatments they chose, and how well they worked:

Click for Part II: Female Pattern Hair Loss

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