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Regrowth at month nine — a photo-free description

Started 24 June 2026 · 10 replies · 64 hearts · read 1k times

AnnikaStockholm, SE · 24 June 2026
4 weeks ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Regrowth at month nine — a photo-free description

Something is going on with my body and I would like to know whether it is ordinary.

This started at the same time as two other things, which is why I cannot attribute it to anything with any confidence.

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment, which is ridiculous given that this circle exists precisely for it.

I want to describe this accurately rather than politely, because the polite version is what I said at my last appointment and it got me nowhere.

Since I have put a figure in the title I should stand behind it: nine, exactly, and I checked before posting rather than after.

Thank you for reading something this unglamorous. Any experience welcome, and timescales especially.

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OsmanAnkara, TR
#1

I wore it up for six months and nobody noticed anything, which I found simultaneously comforting and slightly annoying.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#2

Two things. First, nobody here can tell you what is happening in your body. Second, the conversation you want to have is with a clinician, and we can help you write down what to say.

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DillyNewport, UK
#3

What Osman described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

My experience was that protein intake mattered — not as a cure, but my dietitian flagged that mine had dropped a long way and correcting it seemed to help.

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GroverPortland, ME
#4

I have nothing to add and I did not want to leave it unanswered.

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PerrinNice, FR
#5

What Dilly described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Two years on mine is back to how it was, slightly different in texture, and I no longer think about it at all. That is my whole update.

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MargueriteQuebec City, CA
#6

I got a scalp check because I was worried and it was straightforward and reassuring and took ten minutes. I had built it up enormously.

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MairéadMayo, IE
#7

What kept me going was reading the older threads here where people posted at the start and again a year later. The year-later posts are the useful ones.

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IkeChicago, IL
#8

Mine was patchy rather than general and that turned out to be a different question worth asking about specifically. Please do describe the pattern accurately.

7me too 7

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#9

I am going to steer us away from comparing severity. It has crept in over the last few replies and it does not help anybody who is currently in it.

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FabianBasel, CH
#10

Practically: a softer brush, less heat, and leaving it alone. None of it dramatic and collectively it made the daily experience less upsetting.

4me too 8