Telogen Effluvium Hair Loss Update Q&A | 10-21-20 

That’s when mine started 😔 Im 28 now.

Me to 🥲🥲🥲🥲😭

I am just 17

Yes me too

hold in there! i’m only 14 :(

My thoughts and prayers are with you. 🙏🙏🙏

just coming across your comment, you’re not alone

Me Too!!!!

Same here, I’m a guy though and 17 years old. I weighed around 230 pounds and now weight 168 pounds. But I rushed it. I am certain it was my crash diet that caused my hair loss. I do t have a receding hairline. It affects my whole scalp. Hairline is still there and fine. But i really do think it has to do something with my macros. I would sometimes just go by a day only eating 300 calories because I would drink water and just wanted to be skinny. I know it’s not as hard for a boy or man to go bald because it’s normalized. But at a young age it very depressing and going into my senior year, wanting to show off my new physique. I don’t even want to go to school anymore, but I’m rocking a buzz cut. And it’s not terrible. But the showers suck.

Are you okay now? Ive been experiencing the same thing

Hello brother or sister😢

I also suffering fromt his TE please answer me i just want to talk with you😮

Environmental toxins??? 75% of our immunity happens in the GUT aka small intestines. Take care of your gut health. Do vagus nerve exercises.

@@Fan_of_RONsame bro 😞

Update plz

How is your hair now?

Me too but I think if we keep stressing about it , it will be worse.

I know how you feel. I am in the same situation. Clumps come out every day. I dont know what to do. No ones any answers how to stop it n 12mths to regrow. We will all be without any by then..it is very stressful...

Please check your vit D deficiency.

Exactly

Do you know you need to comb the scalp to get the blood flowing to the roots. Its good to comb hair.

I had Covid the middle of March for 2 weeks. Two months later my hair started coming out just like she says. I hated taking a shower and coming it out. Well it's been almost 3 months since it started and it has slowed down but that's because I don't have much left but I french braid my hair and it covers the thinning pretty good. I have new growth around my hair line so it's coming back. It will take at least another year to get it back to not looking like a dandelion before it turns yellow with the sun shining thru! It will get better. Let it take it's course and you will get hair again!

I'm sorry you're experiencing disbelief from your family. I know how painful and alienating that can be. But now you see there are more of us out there, and family are not the only ones who can provide support. I'm part of some IBD support groups on social media and it lifts my spirits to see others in the struggle coming out there other end victorious and stronger than before. Join a support group and look for answers from a medical provider who will support you. Knowing what you're dealing with can provide a world of relief.

Oh I know also very well the story when your family and your doctors doesnt believe that you're definitely loosing your hair. Exactly.. You are 'histeric' you are 'paranoid' or even hypochondriac.. In my case I had to suffer for many years. I had to loose more than 60% of my hair amount (today it is approx. 70%...) My scalp was on the sides totally white and bald. Its very sad that the others (incl. closley relatives!) dont believe you.

Always happy to help! I felt the same hope you're feeling from watching others with even worse hair loss get their hair back. Patience can be a distressing game, but we'll be able to look back and say, "Wow, I remember when it started!" Wishing you the best too ^_^

Oh my gosh, I'm so glad you found some comfort. I know how dark it can get dealing with something that's out of our control. Wishing you the best

Aww you are so welcome! I encourage you to watch others' videos too. They helped me feel how you are feeling now and gave me the idea to add my two cents to the TE community. Hope you get start seeing good results soon

@@VeronicaCarmona Mines coming out in clumps every day since having covid pneumonia in January. It started to fall out last week which March month now.. My hair was my best feature now losing that..life just kicks you when your down already. I bought a wig now incase gets really bad. Im lost for what else to do now...

@@LadyWriter1968 ll

@@LadyWriter1968 Hope you are OK, Mine is exactly like yours, I'm trying fenugreek Seeds, soaked and sprayed onto hair, check on YT, lots of vitamins etc in them. Wish me luck, and luck to all of you who are going through this as if like me, I am frightened washing Mine as its shedding so much.

I quit using a cob or brush. I just finger comb before I shampoo and let it air dry. Finger comb again. Still falling out.

​@@virginiacates3415how is your position right now?

What are doing for your hair please

@@opporeno4007 hi I never did anything other than take my vitamins that I was already taking.. They know that when women have hair loss they'll try to sell you anything. So I tried not to play into it play into it. Just try to relax breathe. Life is really really hard and stress will do this. I still don't know why it happened. I know my stress was really bad, I had coronavirus pretty bad pretty bad, And also have a thyroid problem. Good luck to ya❤

Hey tina, how is your hair loss now, I'm exactly the same as you. Looks like it's going to be a long road to recovery, good luck

Finally someone voiced it out! You are right.. The physicians come up with their "normal" hair shedding from the average American and their diet, lifestyle. It differs from country to country and is subjective. Since every allopathy doctor studies the American syllabus they keep stressing the same point across the globe. I used to shed 3 to 5 hairs per week. That was my normal. When I started shedding more than 30 strands per day, it was abnormal to me. It took me a decade to understand my cause for hair loss since every doctor said that it's due to dandruff (which I don't have). Now I shed 100 hairs per day and I am terrified to even see my hair in the mirror. I don't know whether I'll get back my thick long hair but atleast I want this hair fall to stop.

I recommend that you get your iron, magnesium and calcium levels checked. Wish you all the best!

@@luckycharm1212 how's ur sheeding?

Are you okay now?

EXACTLY! I've been shedding more hair than usual since my early 20s, but it's gotten worse after I turned 25. I've been researching articles on hair loss for 3+ years since my hair line is now receding and my forehead is getting longer. I was visiting one dermatologist who not once looked at my scalp! She even had the nerve to say my hair was still thick - curly hair gives the impression of thick when it's not. Wasted a whole year with her. So I visited my family physician who actually did a blood test only for it to come out normal! He theorized it's something in my scalp. But now that I no longer have health insurance, I can't afford to visit another dermatologist. So I'm relying on supplements and topicals. I have hair growing, but they're all thin.

Is your hair better?

@@prometheus6853 yes but a bit thinner now . I had extreme shedding last December and it started to slow down and was done by March. I think it was a huge combination of rapid weight loss, stress, the wrong shampoo that made my scalp super itchy and autoimmune.

@@lizz5279 autoimmune can make your Hair thinner overtime and also it takes over a year before you see even half of the hair you used to have while on TE. Plus hair takes 3-4 months before it even sprouts on your head so I’m sure you think you’re getting thinner but your hair hasn’t even started growing yet tbh.

Hi, how is it going now?

Hey I've been experiencing obsene amount of hairloss after a salon based chemical straightening. The chemical wasn't washed out properly of my head and my scalp health deteriorarted initially. No burn. But, ive lost 70 percent hair all over scalp since 7 months. My hair were damaged. Dermatologist suggested minoxidil and prp. But i was looking for homeopathy treatment. Please suggest what are you taking? Should I strictly follow minoxidil 🥲please guide

@@kritikohli5466 hi I started taking viviscal and I have noticed less falling. In my opinion the best topical I have used is Kerenique. I bought both from Ulta. Our hair stories are a little different though. I think your hair will likely grow back nicely. Mine although isn’t falling as much as it was is thin at the crown and seems likely to remain that way. I used colored dry shampoo and toppik hair fibers to help camouflage it a bit. I know how heartbreaking it is to lose our hair as a woman but know that you are not alone❤️❤️

@@RR-fn6dm so sweet of you replying! Even I'm doing multiple things as the pathetic straightening went a lot wrong with diffuse hairloss all over scalp. Since you are topically using kerenique. It do contains minoxidil. I'm also thinking of going ahead with minoxidil now. Earlier I was refraining minoxidil however,now it seems If the loss is a lot then we have to follow the dermatologist. Thanks dear 💕

@@kritikohli5466 I understand the hesitation to use minoxidil, I too was hesitant. I hope it works for you and I think the viviscal is helping as well. Sending you a big hug.

@@RR-fn6dm 😞 it's been 8 months and I'm also shedding. It was intense earlier. Now it's less than before but still there! I'm afraid is it chronic talogeneffluvium Or fphl:(

You're welcome. It certainly is, especially when you don't know what you're dealing with. After the diagnosis, it's nothing more than a waiting game :-\ Wishing you the best

Definitely, if only we knew what was our normal shedding before this happend, thank you and take care🌷

Im male I grew my hair long ...and having perfect manbun ,,,but everyone time I run my finger im getting one hair or no hair .....and I lose around 30 hairs on showers.......what should I do know ,,have to cut my hair and keep it short or leave it as it is???? Please reply its a hard time for me

Me too. Hair loss after Covid.

Most are losing it a few months after covid

@@pennycooks1389 so people get COVID and once they recover and after 1-3 months they start shedding?

Mine was 💯 stress related... what happens is you liver starts turning your amino acids (proteins) into glucose... hair loss and muscle loss occurred due to high and toxic levels of cortisol Trama & stress #1 cause of this TE

@@perrissmith8809 did your hair come back and if did. how long were you shedding for?

@@perrissmith8809 also do you believe that waking up 3-4 times EVERY HOUR NOT EVERY NIGHT BUT EVERY HOUR can cause TE?

Was your caused by stress?

@@jfs5873 yes! Emotional stress so chronic that it turned into ptsd. You can have your cortisol levels tested, I suggest doing it through a private company, rather than a doctor, because the doctors don’t recognize stress to be a factor in my experience, mine were the highest they can be “stuck in fight or flight”

how soon does it come back... I have consulted 4 doctors.. 2 of them said its AGA, 1 said its traction alopecia and 1 said its fungal infection.. In case of TE how soon does the hair starts to regorw ?

What was your diet to help this ?

What had worked for you?

I rapid lost 17KG of weight from July to September 2020, I was on crush diet and working out alot....after that due to winter I shave off my head and was applying castor & coconut oil mix till April 2021....but since lost month I am going through huge hairfall when I oil and wash my hair......am I going through TE due to weight lost?

My shedding will be over this July

hi! what supplements do u use exactly pls?

How is it now??

I'm suffering from April 2020 That time i was 19

Get your labs checked. Iron levels.

Dealing with this right now, and I've lost about 50% of it. How are you doing? Has it stopped for you?

​@@JClover2what is your position right now?

@@supratikghosh1026 it stopped falling after about 3 months. It started growing back soon after so that was good.

You're so welcome. Always happy to help ^_^ I never mentioned it 'cause I'm fairly certain it wasn't related, but I did have some slight itching. I do, however, get recurring dry scalp from time to time, so it's a toss up.

Yes you will have itching, pain, and a dry scalp. My dermatologist diagnosed me with TE this past February. I too had fovid but I had it March 2020. I've had hair loss since then but it got worse this past February coming out in clumps! It doesn't seem to end!

@@famousgirl903 wen uh started sheeding ?

hi, just checking, what was your trigger? (if you don't mind me asking!) i've been going through it for a month and a bit and i can get like 20 hairs every time i run my hands through my hair.

@@ellachatham1732 hi I made a new account because I got a new phone I think my trigger was stress and anxiety it may of also had something to do with me having covid but I don’t know for sure anyway the hair loss has stopped when I run my hand through my hair I get 1 out every like 10 times which I thinks pretty normal also on my fringe there’s a lot of shorter hairs starting to grow back. I hope your doing ok with it it will stop, good luck :)

Ella Chatham hey girl, what was your trigger? Personally not that any body asked, I think my trigger was quarantine and lock down. A change in my life having to distance and be away from friends and family, online school stress, the pandemic in general,I think that’s wha might have caused it

50-100 hairs a day is apparently the norm. I am losing 3-400 a day and it's no joke. 😞

@@adelejones5059 hey please don’t panic I had the same and it stopped and grew back just remember your hair doesn’t define you and people will still see you for you even if it’s long short thick or thin I hope your getting in ok I’m here in the comments if you need to talk :)

are you a vegetarian???? do you think that's why the iron and b12 went down??

I face the same

It is normal

I am a male i am facing the same but my cause could be extreme exercises with low calorie diet i regret it was 86kg now 66-70kg I should have done it slowly 😐 I saw a reverse dieting could help just started it.

Yeah my dermatologist told me to start fucking Rogaine. I’d never in my life take that

Right dear i really don't know that telogen effluvium is something until i suffered 😥😥i heard that people used to say i am suffering from hairfall but this kind of hairfall omg 😭😭😭

Do you have an update? From my understanding PCOS doesn't cause pain. So it might be a fibroid.

Has your hair gotten better??? How long have you been shedding

@@prometheus6853 it never stopped till this moment , it’s been 2 years

@@nonanona3018 oh wow. Maybe CTE? Maybe you have other problems that keep triggering TE

@@nonanona3018 you should go to dermatologist as soon as possible.....did you notice any regrowth?

​@@nonanona3018hey any update please share dear 😢😢😢

Omg me too! I’ve always had super thick hair and after I had Covid I lost so much hair for months!! Hair loss is so painful. One of the most painful things a woman can go through. Or a man! Collagen helped me so much! But I was seriously crying every night I wouldn’t brush or wash my hair because I couldn’t emotionally take seeing so much hair falling out! Drink tons of water and make sure you’re taking supplements. I understand babe

Same girl :( I literally lost half of my hair and it was already thin, so you can see the crown of my head and the partings very well. It made me so insecure, but I am trying the rice water method and so far I did see less fall out with brushing my hair. However I wish I took some measures earlier, because half is already lost

@@n.p4869 same!! Had thin hair already. Its been 6 weeks and i literally have lost 70%!! I spray my scalp with root touch up spray to cover it but another week or 2 of this and i will be in a wig or scarf....im losing my mind.

omg we gotta be twins…the exact same thing happened to me!! i got covid-19 on january and it finally left my body around the second week of february, a whole month!! and i was looking like a old man with the amount I lost 😞. my hair was so thick too 😭😭 and in may, a whole two months later i finally went to my dr and she recommended me multivitamins+vitamin d3+biotin and lemme tell you, after 3 weeks…boom i was already seeing some growth! and after a month only one or two hairs would come out when i brushed my hair. but very recently, my new hairs have been falling out when i wash or brush my hair after, but only like 10 tiny hairs and a few long hairs…nothing serious. i guess my hair is shedding at the average rate again. if i see more though i might talk to my doc! also im going to get my thyroid and vitamin levels checked soon so try that too just in case! you really never know. 🙂 i also have really bad dandruff that im going to see a dermatologist for soon aswell, since flaking/dandruff can stop your hair from growing back to it’s former self so if you have a itchy scalp or flaking too, it’s worth seeing a dermatologist or doctor. anyways it’s july now, and most of it grew back, except for a little patch and most of my hair in that line in the middle of my head, i can never remember the name! 😂 best of luck to you though mami!! you got this!!

@@sidneycatlin8359 :00 i asked my doc about it and she said i could try it if i wanted to. but i never got around to it as there’s so many brands…how much hair growth did you see?? and what brand do you use? i wanna try vital proteins but it’s a bit pricey. lmk lol 😌

Hope to hear from you! Love your channel. My derm said that TE was due to stress and it will stop falling out once my body stops feeling the stress. Did you do anything to help your stress which led your hairloss to stop?

My doctor said the same when looking for possible triggers. There were just so many factors happening at once, it was difficult to pinpoint the culprit. At the time, I was traveling to see family because my husband was deploying and I experienced a Crohn's flare that lasted about 6 weeks. You can say I was stressed lol. I don't there was anything in particular that I did to help the situation other than accept the diagnosis once I finally had it, learn to comb my hair in ways that hid the bare spots, stop caring if they did show, and let the illness run its course. As for the laser comb, I just did what the doctor suggested. Better try than wonder if it would've worked. Can't say for certain if that's what helped or not.

That’s helpful . Thanks

246 ng/ml is that good?

@@NotFitz as far as I am informed thats very high

Try minoxidil and also ask the doctor to reduce the medication strength or change the medication.

my severe covid caused my TE

@@AndreaShink - Same thing is happening to me. 😢

I have been losing my hair for a few months now, but in the last three to four weeks it has been noticeably thinner and I am seeing those same spots on my scalp where hair should be. I had a video chat appt with my doctor yesterday for my annual check up, and mentioned this to her. She is sending me to a dermatologist to see what is causing my hair shedding. I've started using haircare products geared toward hair regrowth, and am taking hair, skin and nails vitamins. My life has been super stressful for the last several months, and six months ago I was diagnosed with insulin resistance and PCOS, so I'm sure that the combination of everything I've been going through has contributed to my massive hair loss. It's still very daunting and disturbing though. Thankfully I have a doctor who takes me seriously when issues arise, and she acts quickly to get me to the specialist I need. I'm hoping and praying I get an answer soon to what is causing this, so I can get a plan for treatment in place. Praying for everyone who is affected by this. Hang in there! ❤️🙏

@@RachelLWolfe pls look up Advanced Trichology on RU-vid. I got their products and my hairball slowed a TON, and within 8 days! it is a process, and I need to be patient for it to begin to grow back. blessings to you, my friend.

@@AndreaShink I may look into that. Thank you for the tip. I'm going to try to use up the products I have at the moment. My niece was experiencing the same thing and turned me on to Renpure Collagen and Biotin shampoo and conditioner. It is sulfate free, and had great reviews. I'm using up the last of my Hask Biotin shampoo and conditioner, before I start the Renpure. I'm using, as well, the Hask Biotin detangler and leave in treatment. It's early days on everything I'm trying so fingers crossed I get good results. I watched another video earlier and the woman mentioned taking saw palmetto. It's a DHT blocker, and I've heard from multiple sources now that this is also a great treatment for hair loss. I bought some a while back, but shortly after was told it's only for men, so I didn't take it. The bottle is still in my medicine cabinet unopened, so after hearing from multiple sources that women are seeing good results with their hair from taking it, I'm going to start taking it. I'm hearing, too, that a lot of women are saying they've lost their hair about two to three months after having covid, and I'm just recovering from covid. I don't want to wait for that to happen, to make things worse, so..... among everything in doing physically, I'm trying very hard to reduce my stress levels, which hasn't been easy, but I have to do something. Anyway, thanks again for the tip. I wish you well in your journey!

How's your hair ?

Any update 😢😢😢