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I was interested to read this, because it's been happening to me, too.
I also have always had thick hair. I needed heavy duty brushes, and it would take a long time to dry.
A few years ago it started falling out in a hurry. While I still wear it long, it's extraordinarily thin and wispy now, I can't believe this is me. I could blame it on my getting older, but this does not run in my family, no matter how old anyone got to be. So I knew it was health-related, but I hadn't thought of it as mast-cell-related.
The first thing I noticed was that it was hurting my head to brush my hair -- the bristles are painful -- and the sun started burning my scalp any time I was outside. If I scratch my head, I'm shocked every time, to feel no hair resistance. It's like someone came overnight and cut down most of the trees in the forest. There's so little left up there now, that sometimes when I glance in the bathroom mirror at the right angle of light, I just see a curved bald scalp shining through.
Being as how it's more of a vanity issue, and I have more critical health worries to deal with, I try not to dwell on it. But you can't help but feel kind of bad about it. I can say that for me, this long debilitating illness has taken away "myself" steadily by bits and pieces, and this is just another bit that is making me unrecognizable as to who I "used to be".
My hairs are not only greatly reduced in number, but each hair is damaged, twisted, uneven in texture and shape. Maybe we should have hair analysis done, but who would know what to make of it?
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