Thank you for setting up this thread. In the past two years, I have suffered/survived strokes, heart procedures, auto-immune disease, a clotting and a bleeding disorder (yes, one body can have both simultaneously!), and now my doctors are looking at Hashimoto's/hypothyroidism and perhaps metabolic syndrome. ARGH!! I just got out of the hospital three days ago, and I have more questions than answers. Good news --I have to keep finding the silver lining-- is that my doctors are all really amazing specialists/researchers and are determined to work together and figure this out. I have hope.
Bad news is the hair. I've been trying to ignore the thinning and drying, telling myself it is just vanity, but when you don't feel good AND don't look good, it's like a double punishment. I lost some hair to a CT/MRI oops, to general body stress, to medication, to radiation, etc. etc. I don't think there is any one cause for my hair thinning, but the end result is that I have lost over 1/3 of my volume (as per my original hair journal when I joined LHC). My DH trims my hair for me, and we are just trying to keep in somewhere between BL and Waist with a neat hemline and some sort of illusion to health. I wear it in a variety of buns, but now my top is also getting thin, so I'm afraid to put anymore stress there.
Thank you for sharing your stories. I love this site, but stayed away for awhile as it seemed to remind me of what I'm losing, rather than what I'm gaining.
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Originally Posted by KateMcC
The heart would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears.
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