My hair!

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What is happening to my hair? I feel like I look like Red Skelton with a

Patch of extremely dry hair on each side of my face. Looks like hay

My hair never did this before, it's just dry dry dry. Also my skin feels

thinner and dry too. Is this part of the wonderful world of the

menopause blues too? I feel like a freak show inside and look like

One outside. 😕

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    Might well be the meno. My hair is lacking bounce recently. I normally have nice weavy hair and many hairdressers used to give me compliment about the quality of my hair. But now it feels lifeless and flat. Must be the HORMONS I would say. sad

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    definately menopause my hair used to be gorgeous now it doesn't matter what i do it feels dry and is now thinning out too I hate my hair now

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    Me too Kimmy my hair is as dry as chalk! My face looks like I got chicken poxs ACNE FACE had this since the peri started and thought I was meno and guess what yep I still have it! I had oral surgey awhile back and still havent got my upper plate because I have NO dental insurance and my autistic son has to get work done and they have to put him to sleep SO I have to wait like another year maybe 2 before I can get mine by that time my lips will finish caving in so that just adds to my nigtmare hormonal scary face! These are other things that just adds to my homebouned life! It will take me a good year or so to make payments on Jacob's dental work. (Autistic kids diets are horrible and hard to change) . I know if my husband was alive I could have had all this done but after his death income stopped, he was our soul income and provider :-( I get surviors benefit from social security and DIC but its not enough to pay for the needed stuff like dental care, clothes, misc and etc. They won't give Jacob a medical card because we have Tri Care standard but it doesn't cover dental. Plus we have to pay 25% of that. Oh well it is what it is. I'm racking my brain for anything I can do from home to help support us. Fighting these meno symtoms keeps me feeling tired, weak and sad not to mention the other 66 symptoms. I'm learning to deal with things 

    "one day at a time" 

    • Posted

      I am so sorry crosado8. You do seem to be having a hard time. Hope things get better. Hugs
    • Posted

      Hi Crosado

      Sorry to hear about your issues. There was a post here not long ago about legitimate work from home. Have you seen it?

    • Posted

      Colleen, was it in menopause? Have any clue what the heading may have been?
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      I am the one that sent those WAH jobs. I am not rehireable because I had to miss so much when my husband was so sick and on life support. The last almost two years of his life he was so critical that he was sent to the VA care facility in Minnesota the only place that would take a Veteran on a  ventilator so then I had to misss even more work because the months that I could I had to drive from Kentucky to Minnesota back and forth so anyways due to all that I  went through all those jobs and not rehireable now . After he died I even sent death certificate but because a few times when they called that he was been rushed to ICU (knowing he could die at any moment) because I left during shift and because this went on for so long I was put on do not rehire list :-( But it's okay we are hanging in there and i'm praying that some door will open or I can find another WAH job that I dont know about . Just that the last 3 years and then this year with all my health issues and Jacobs it just been a rough ride. I had to vent that one time because it just seemed like nothing was getting any better no matter how hard I tried and for a while I must admit I just lost all hope!  But for Jacob's sake and my daughter kayla who has two permenant colostomies and a host of other issues I decide to fight harder but it took a bit to get that fight back!  Family support I dont have because I was raised in foster care my whole life and my foster parenst was rather uo in age when I was a kid and of course have since gone home to be with the Lord. I am working on things though :-)

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      Keep fighting and don't lose hope. Remember God is able and has the last say. Take care?

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      Sorry about your misfortune. All you need while goung through all of this! Prayers to you♡ I was looking through past posts trying to find your posts which stated the online jobs. Do you remember where it was? Could you repeat it for me?? Thanks, and hope things get better for you
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      Thanks Chr2015.  How are you doing today?
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    I hate my hair! This was my first symptom the thinning hair, but lately evetything is so dry, I will be checked for thyroid, my dr. just wants to rule out other stuff but she is almost sure is peri. I just dont feel beautiful anymore sad

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      Please scroll down and read my comment . it has made a wonderful difference in my hair and skin . you will see the difference in a matter of weeks!
  • Posted

    Yep. Ditto.  For me this is one of the worst symptoms. I know its probably lack of oestrogen, I am definitely menopausal. I have had long thick hair most of my life. Now it embarrases me, so I wear it up all the time. I'm still resisting getting it cut to a shorter syle, because I dont want to do what alot of others do when this happens, and keep hoping for a miracle solution.

    I did try taking HRT but I gained a bit of weight and - even worse - developed loads of acne, - on my face and back - Yuk!  So I stopped that.

    Although I havent put on weight my body feels flabbier - only one answer to that - same old boring - more excercise.

  • Posted

    I have started saturating my hair with coconut oil and leaving it on for an hour then having my shower and washing my hair it seems to be starting to help but very slowly ...I do it once a,week ...that might help you

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