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What I would say to someone in month three

Started 1 May 2026 · 16 replies · 87 hearts · read 1k times

MargueriteQuebec City, CA · 1 May 2026
3 months ago

What I would say to someone in month three Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment.

I have read the guide on this and it covered the ordinary version. Mine is not quite the ordinary version and that is why I am asking.

What I cannot tell is whether this is the ordinary tax or the sort of thing that needs somebody today, and that distinction is the whole of my question.

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.

The number in the title is the actual number: three, not a round figure I reached for because it sounded about right.

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

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MairéadMayo, IE
#1

I cut mine short during the worst of it, which I resisted for weeks and then found enormously freeing. Less to lose visibly, less to notice.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#2

A note for anybody arriving at this thread mid-way: if what you are experiencing is frightening rather than merely uncomfortable, that is a reason to ask somebody qualified this week rather than to read further.

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IkeChicago, IL
#3

What helped me emotionally was that somebody in this circle said plainly that it was allowed to be distressing. I had been minimising it and it was not working.

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MarthaCork, IE
#4

Coming back to what Mairéad wrote further up, because it is the bit I keep thinking about.

It is generally described as temporary and mine was, and I want to be honest that the temporary part took the better part of six months.

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WinnieCarlisle, UK
#5

The regrowth was the strangest part. Short new bits everywhere, standing up, for about four months, and then it evened out.

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OsmanAnkara, TR
#6

Mine coincided with a genuinely difficult period at home and I will never know how much was which. The two were completely tangled.

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OttoPrague, CZ
#7

Osman said something I want to sit with for a second.

Something I read here that steadied me: shedding is often a response to a change several months earlier rather than to what is happening this week.

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AnnikaStockholm, SE
#8

I stopped washing it less, which I had been doing on the theory it would help, and it made absolutely no difference except that my hair was greasy.

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DillyNewport, UK
#9

I would say ask for the bloods rather than assuming. Mine turned out to have a straightforward and fixable component and I would not have known.

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WystanCheltenham, UK
#10

My hairdresser was more reassuring than any clinician. She had seen it many times, said so plainly, and told me what she expected over the next six months.

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NyalaAddis Ababa, ET
#11

The thing nobody warned me about was that it kept going for a while after the trigger had passed. The lag confused me for months.

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PerrinNice, FR
#12

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

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NyreeChristchurch, NZ
#13

Grateful you posted rather than kept it to yourself.

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GroverPortland, ME
#14

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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#15

Speaking as a facilitator: a symptom that is frightening you is a reason to ask, regardless of whether it turns out to be anything. Nobody qualified will think you have wasted their time.

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CoralieMarseille, FR
#16

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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