Help! Gone Natural, Hair Thinning!
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Topic: Help! Gone Natural, Hair Thinning!
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Subject: Help! Gone Natural, Hair Thinning!
Date Posted: January 14 2003 at 9:21am
Hi everyone,
I`ve been trying to find some help for the longest time about my thinning hair. I first noticed my hair was thinning about 4 years ago, a few months after my second kid was born. I was on a new birth control at that time - DepoProvera. Some of you probrably heard of it - that birth control shot? I was taking it for about a year. Then I heard that it can sometimes cause hair loss, so I stopped taking it. My hair did seem to stop shedding, and thickened up A LITTLE BIT after that. But not much.
It`s been over 4 years and I`m still fighting thinning hair. About 10 months ago, I got fed up and decided to go natural. I figured that maybe it was the overprocessing and heat damage that was preventing my hair from growing back to it`s previous thickness. No such luck, once again, my hair did seem to thicken up a little more,
(My hair was seriously thinned when I had the relaxer: REALLY bad! You could see my scalp through my hair even from the sides. I kept my head under a hat or scarf!)
But, it is still really thin. Especially right on top. My hair is also very fine. Natural! It`s more wavy than curly, and at the nap of my neck, you`d swear that I still had relaxer in, even though I had that part shaved bald, because I didn`t believe that was my natural hair. I thought my hair wasn`t growing at all back there! (You see, I had a relaxer in my head since about 11, and I don`t remember if my hair was always this fine or not.)
I can`t even wear my hair in natural styles like twists, and knots because my hair is so thin that the styles don`t look right. They make me look bald. A bunch of you seem to know a lot about hair, so if you have ANY insight on my problem, or what I can do to thicken up my hair I would be eternally grateful!
Peace.
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Posted By: gayle
Date Posted: January 14 2003 at 12:23pm
This web site: http://motowngrl.8m.net/regimen.html - http://motowngrl.8m.net/regimen.html has a page about supplements and said you can take Panthoneic Acid or vitamin B5 to help thicken your hair. That site has been a Godsend to me and my hair had improved 150% over the last year or so. if you try it let us know how it works. - Gayle
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