It never came back the same and I have made peace with it

Started 8 August 2025 · 12 replies · 122 hearts · read 2.4k times

NyalaAddis Ababa, ET · 8 August 2025

11 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: It never came back the same and I have made peace with it

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

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.

Nobody warned me about this specifically and I am starting to think that is because it is common enough that everybody assumed I knew.

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

Not after remedies particularly. Mostly I want to know whether this is ordinary and how long it went on for.

MairéadMayo, IE

Mine has thinned and stayed thinner, and I have made my peace with that, and I would not want somebody to read only the full-recovery accounts.

PerrinNice, FR

What I found hardest was other people not seeing it. It was enormous to me and invisible to everybody else, which made it lonely.

OttoPrague, CZ

You have described the bit that nobody warns you about.

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described in this thread is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

WystanCheltenham, UK

Ada has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

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

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.

BlySheffield, UK

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.

WinnieCarlisle, UK

I found the counting worse than the shedding. Once I stopped looking at the plughole every morning the whole thing became much smaller.

MargueriteQuebec City, CA

Building on what Winnie wrote rather than answering the original question.

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.

DillyNewport, UK

#10

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

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

#11

I want to acknowledge how hard it is to post about this at all. Several of the subjects this circle covers are ones people carry alone for months before asking.

GudrunAkureyri, IS

#12

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