Life Update & A New Hair Loss - Diffuse Alopecia Areata (Incognita)

This episode focuses on recapping the last year of my life. This is my life and hair loss update, they tie together. I now have a new type of hair loss in addition to the one I’ve had 24 years - female pattern baldness. The events of last year triggered this new hair loss, and so, here we are. I share about discovering I now also have diffuse alopecia areata (Incognita). 

I feel like this update is messy and all over the place, but my life is messy and all over the place, so it works perfectly.  

I had no idea it was possible to get more than one type of hair loss, but it is. 

I vacillated over the last month on how I would treat it, if I would treat it. After a lot of reflection, I have made the decision I can live with, and I’m declining the use oral minoxidil, (and Dupixent, and Olumiant for that matter). I had previously refused oral minoxidil for my androgenetic alopecia, and I stopped systemically treating my female pattern baldness in 2013. I have only utilized PRP hair loss treatments since 2009 (done every 4-5 months). 

This is new, and it is different, but the reasons I’m choosing to not treat it with medication are the very same as I made for my androgenetic alopecia, I am however trying a round of steroid injections, and I’ve already done those two times. 

This podcast is a lengthy deep dive into how this came to be, and my thought process behind all of it. This is my life and hair loss update.

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