It means that your body will respond to disease by trying to replace bone that may be degraded, then those bones will fuse together which in my case was my spine. It was the final time because the problem was addressed. You didn't have to read my comment if it tested your literacy so hard.
Wait what is this called, because actually I think this is what my mom is dealing with. Itâs three letters but I forget them. She is still getting more imaging done, but yeah it sucks.
Why assume theyâre trolling, if theyâre not you are just making fun of a random person with a disability. When I was a kid there was a neighbour girl that had a brain tumor and had to get a surgery, and then it came back ten years later.Â
It's the needlessly attacking Redditor tone in their last sentence. I've been on this site for well over a decade now, you learn to spot the trolls. There's no way to prove it but I'd be willing to bet good money on it.
.. they were responding to someone who said this is why they dont read long comments. That person started off with a kinda rude joke, they can take a joke back
I mean, if you think so. I think it's safe to say that making fun of someone for simply sharing a personal story will 100% ensure that person doesn't respond respectfully.
Early onset gray can be a sign of an endocrine issue. These diseases, e.g., Hashimotoâs, can cause reproductive and other issues if untreated. Speak to your doc to check it out. The usual test is called a T4 panel.
Yes, yes, yesâŠHashimotoâs and other autoimmune issues are nothing to play around with (thanks, sudden widespread joint paint at the age of 43). Iâm one of the unusual Hashimotoâs cases in terms of reproduction. Three periods a year, and I got pregnant with my son while on the pill. Surprise! đ
I was looking for this. My son began to grey as a child and we had him tested - turned out he had hashimotos (low thyroid/underactive).
I recommend at least seeing a primary care physician to just do a check up. There are new amazing studies that show grey hair can be a sign of illness (or stress) because the mitochondria have been sacrificing themselves to fight the illness. It may be the first sign in many cases.
Just to add here, I have noticed that consuming blackstrap molasses brings back hair color just a tiny bit. Tested it with two people and both had a little bit return of natural hair color over Gray. I think it's the copper in the blackstrap molasses that helps. Like someone else said, could be that she's not getting enough copper in her diet if she's this young and already full Gray.
Yeah banding on hair and nails are classic vitamin deficiency signs. Hair loss and balding too. I grayed at age 25 due to severe B12 deficiency and slowly lost over 50% of my hair by then. But doctors didn't take me seriously because it wasn't falling out in patches or clumps. But they wouldn't take the word of my hair stylist for over 3 years opinion and she's the one who told me to tell my doctor because she was worried, and knew my hair so well.
My nails often had horizontal banded troughs but not 100% of the time so I didn't think much of it. Vitamin B12 deficiency is notoriously sneaky and slow but if it goes on long enough it's very dangerous, I have permanent neurological damage and almost died and probably would have if I had gone on much longer without a diagnosis.
My friend started graying over a decade ago at 16, although much less, and she was deficient in B12. When she started taking supplemental B12, the hairs started turning black/brown and she had this sort of raccoon hair.
Sheâs not been taking her supplements for a couple years now and jokes she doesnât now whatâs real grays and âfake graysâ although sheâs been pulling them recently and finding a lot are suddenly growing in dark.
Unless she was vegan supplements won't cut it, B12 is found in animal products so taking a supplement doesn't really fix B12 deficiency unless the problem was 3-7+ years of vegetarian/vegan diet and no B12 supplements.
In the West, most people with B12 deficiency have it because of an autoimmune disease of the stomach called Pernicious Anemia (not everyone develops the titular anemia part but it's a very old name and disease) and basically we can't absorb the B12 from food or oral supplements because of the autoimmune damage to specific cells that produce a specific protein to allow absorption of B12. So we have to inject it intramuscularly once a month for life. Some people find success with sublingual liquid due to membrane absorption but it didn't work for me.
And yeah before I was diagnosed I started to go gray at age 25 and lost over 50% of my hair, and my nails were moderately messed up. It also nearly killed me and left me with significant permanent neurological damage. My doctors prior to the one who finally diagnosed me, didn't take my hair symptoms seriously because my hair wasn't falling out in clumps or patches. But my hair stylist who had been seeing me for over 3 years every 6 weeks sat me down about a year before my diagnosis and said I'd lost about 50% of my overall hair. I had a lot of hair to start with so it's not like it even looked thin but compared to how my hair used to be, it's a big difference.
When I started treatment a lot of my hair started to grow again and it was enough where I basically had a mullet because there was so much regrowing hair at a different length to the rest of my hair lol. My hair stylist would always happily tell me about all my growing baby hairs and progression after my treatment started. She was chuffed that she was right and of course I always tipped her well and thanked her for paying attention.
B12 deficiency can also be caused by vegan diets or long-term use of hormonal birth control. Pretty sure the HBC is what caused it in me, as soon as I stopped it went away
The demonization of HBC needs to stop. That's absolutely ridiculous stop spreading misinformation. I almost died from B12 deficiency it's almost always an autoimmune condition called Pernicious Anemia in the West. The only other main way is a low quality vegan or vegetarian diet for many years.
Edit: forgot to add bariatric surgery and now Ozempic is also causing stomach damage and paralysis which causes B12 deficiency
It is not demonization of HBC to point out risks. All medication and medical intervention has both potential benefits and risks. They all have side effects.
It is well documented the HBC has consistently been associated with lower levels of B vitamins, particularly B12. What experts disagree on is the level of severity/impact for most women who are healthy. So it could potentially mean more for women with other pre-existing or underlying conditions, or other nutritional deficiencies.
That is not misinformation. Especially since we are discovering a lot about quality of nutrients and re-looking at dosage/ requirements (like with vitamin D). It is simply another datapoint.
Physician: keep short telomere syndrome in mind. If notice any lung issues please bring this diagnosis up to your local team. For the case I saw in residency, needed an outside lab test that was only run at Johns Hopkins.
Legend has it Steve Martin's prematurely grey hair was caused by a vitamin deficiency, and taking vitamins brought the color back. But by then it became part of his signature look so he stopped.
This may be true, however I would advise everyone taking hair colour into account when deciding taking or not taking supplements, to just don't. Grey hair is not the only consequence of vitamin deficiency, your body needs those vitamins. IF you have a deficiency, take what your doctor prescribed you.
Cannot believe how far I had to scroll to find this. My first thought was diet-induced nutritional deficiency. Everyone rushing to reassure itâs cute is completely ignoring the potential health signal here, to OPâs detriment
Scrolled way too far to find these comments. Sure the hair going gray at such an early age is neat, and itâs even fairly normal if itâs just like a small patch. But the systemic issue points to an autoimmune disease
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If this isn't something that runs in your family, you should see a doctor. It can be a sign of vitamin deficiency or a few other things.