There are a host of reasons why it happens, but it's always a shock. Here, four women who are fighting back.
joins a well-established conclusion in the medical community, that alopecia is closely associated with anxiety and depression. Often, women feel this even more acutely.
“I see far more women than men in my clinic, even though more men experience hair loss overall,” says Ali Jabbari, MD, PhD, associate professor of dermatology at the Carver College of Medicine in Iowa. “Probably because male hair loss is more accepted as normal.”Hair loss is associated with medical issues
like thyroid problems, low iron levels, lupus, and polycystic ovary syndrome—meaning people often go through several rounds of testing—and weeks, months, sometimes years of stress—just to rule out all the possibilities. Then, once they’re finally diagnosed with alopecia, they’re given a shoulder shrug and told there’s not much they can do about it.
That’s what happened to Kylie Bamberger, 29, who started losing her hair at 12 years old. “I was constantly leaving school for appointments and tests, but no one could figure out what I had,” she says. By the time she was diagnosed with the autoimmune condition alopecia areata three years later, she felt hopeless, not relieved. “I was 15 years old with a diagnosis and no solution.”“Alopecia simply means hair loss in any form,” Dr. Jabbari says.
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