Personal Update

For those of you who have been reading my blog for a while, I posted back in May that my hairdresser had found a round bald spot on the underside of my hair during my appointment, and it was causing me a great deal of stress at the time. Ironically, stress is probably what caused the spot, but I'll get to that! haha. Thankfully, it wasn't and isn't much of a cosmetic issue since it is on the underside  of my hair! I thought and prayed about it a LOT, and eventually I got a better attitude. I went to my family doctor, who drew some blood work to see if it was my thyroid causing the problem. Luckily, it wasn't, but that still didn't help me get answers. He referred me to a dermatologist, but, unfortunately, they weren't able to see me until today, about 3 months AFTER I discovered the bald spot. Long story short, I've done a lot of googling between then and now, so I kind of knew what was coming. The dermatologist looked at it and immediately said that it was alopecia areata. Basically, it's a condition that causes a person to lose hair in mostly circular patches. More often than not, it appears for the first time in people younger than me, but it can happen to anyone. It can also be triggered by STRESS, which I think was the cause in my case. The dermatologist was wonderful and comforting. She said that it may never happen again, but I could certainly find other similar spots down the road. She gave me some steroid injections in my scalp (OUCH!!!), and she prescribed me something topical to put on the spot to help the hair grow back. Besides the fact that I felt like someone punched me in the back of the head for a couple hours after my appointment, I'm ok with all of this. I'm happy to have an answer and a treatment!

Anyway, I figured I would give everyone the update. I go back in about 2 months for a check up to see if the treatments have worked. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers!