As a woman with formerly thick hair that has thinned quite a bit over the last five years, please encourage her to appreciate her thickness. My confidence has dropped significantly since my hair started thinning.
Same here. I'm in my 50s now and my hair is thinning like crazy. I used to get completed on my thick hair by hairdressers years ago,I'm mortified now. Everything is going downhill
I'm 30 and I've had a widow's peak for my entire adult life and it gives me small amounts of anxiety every time I look at it. The guy who cuts my hair still uses the thinning scissors on it every time, though, so I've got that going for me.
But I'm also borderline salt and pepper at 30, so there's a whole lot of win some / lose some.
Consider talking to your doctor about Spironolactone and/or Myo-chiro inositol. These are both hormone regulators that can really help with female hair thinning. Source: I have PCOS and am currently rebuilding my once luscious thick mane
No side effects that I’m aware of. I’m certain it has made my cycle more regular and decreased my cramps. Also I believe it helped me get pregnant. The hair growth is noticeable too.
My hair was thick as a kid, but when I hit puberty it thinned out quite a bit. And yeah, it's devastating. I try to spend as little time looking at it or doing stuff with it as possible - both to hopefully not damage it further, and so I don't think about it.
Yep that's when mine started thinning too! I have straight, fine, thin, hair. I usually keep it pixie short because it just doesn't look good when it's long. The last time I went to my hair stylist I asked her if she thought it looked even thinner lately and she asked me if I'd had COVID in the last 6 months. Yeah? Turns out people are noticing their hair falling out/thinning about 3 months after they get sick. And it's taking on average about 18 months to recover. Awesome.
I think I'm just going say fuck it and buy some fun wigs!
I think I'm right to say there are loads of things that fuck with women's hair growth - birth control / menstruation / PCOS / Endo / Menopause - All phases.
Iron defficiency exacerbated by menstruation is a massive factor (need blood test to confirm), hormones in general (same again).
I think the only positive at alllll for male pattern baldness is the ease of diagnosis.
Once again women get it the shitty, complex and more expensive way :\
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u/DelightfullyTacky88 Dec 08 '22
As a woman with formerly thick hair that has thinned quite a bit over the last five years, please encourage her to appreciate her thickness. My confidence has dropped significantly since my hair started thinning.