Curly hair growing in...could it be medical?

I have always had straight hair (I am 29). But for the past 9 months or so, I have noticed lots of thick, curly, darker hairs growing in. They are CURLY. Not just wavy... And by thick, I mean at least twice the thickness of the rest of my hair. I have red hair and these hairs are growing in a very deep color of red...like a RED red as oppposed to a copper red.

I was on antibiotics for over a year and that is the only thing that was different before my hair started growing in like that. Maybe I am just paranoid, but could that be why? Or is it just that I am getting older?

This has been sucking since the curly hairs are also only about 2-4 inches long when I notice them...the rest of my hair is down to my bra closure on my back. So it is obvious that these are new-ish hairs.

I hope someone has some insight...thanks :)

i say embrace your curls and learn to style and care for them, really not much you can do.

Yeah, it's not every hair on my head. I have mostly board straight hair, but I have many very curly (we're talking 1cm diameter spiral) hairs growing in. And they are not "buddying up" together...they are randomly placed on my head. And they are a different texture... If I could get it all to come in curly, I'd rock that hairstyle! It's just that it's not consistent at all.

I have now been off the antibiotics for about 3 months (was on tetracyclines for cystic acne, which I no longer have...thank the Lord!) and am on the pill now to balance my hormones out so I don't break out anymore.

I will just have to see if this renegade curly growth continues now that I am off that medicine. It is really the only change I can put my finger on!

I have asked about those before too...after years of wondering why they are there, and pulling them out only for them to grow back in just as kinky, dark and thick, I think they must be caused by damage.

My neice is a cosmetologist and she said there was something missing in the hair and that they should be pulled out so the hair has a chance to grow right.  I did that, then I over did that, pulling out ones I thought even MIGHT be them (so please don't overpull out your hair, it will be noticeable that you have a halo of short hairs before you know it!).  I think I may indeed have less of them after pulling them (the right ones) out, and giving them time to see if they'd grow back, but I definitely have plenty that just continue to grow back just as kinky as before, so no, that didn't wind up curing the problem.

 I only have them on the top of my head, and close to the top, and I have more of them where my hair parts.  Sun and heat damage maybe?  I don't know, but I don't know why else I wouldn't have any on the lower layers.  Do yours come out all over your head, or just near the top and parts like mine?




Edited by Susan W - September 25 2006 at 7:37am