well, donna, join my club. (and alice, please tell me how much biotin
you take).

donna, yours may be thyroid related since you're having problems in
that region as well. as for mine, it's gotten terrible in the last
year. same as you, washing my hair leaves hair all over my hands. and
my hair on top is very thin with visible scalp showing, which is why
i'm letting my hair go naturally curly instead of blowing it dry (it
masks the baldness somewhat.)

mine is so bad that i got a referral to duke u where the female hair
loss specialist practices. she took biopsies of my scalp where there
was no hair growing and where the hair is thin. (that was fun. . . ).
she took ten thousand tubes of blood. the result? plain old female
pattern baldness. supposedly inherited, though i'm the only female i
know of with balding in my family. treatment is rogaine, which doesn't
agree with my scalp.

i also found some products online that you can "paint" on the bald
parts of your scalp so it doesn't shine through. yuch! but when you're
desperate, you're desperate.

i hope yours is thyroid related and it all grows back when that
problem is taken care of.

diane

Lots of times people don't talk about something 'cause it's just never come
up.

My hair is thinning somewhat by my temples but nothing alarming. OTOH my
face is getting quite fuzzy! The women in my family run to moustaches
anyway.

My thyroid level tested out fine. I take levothyroxine (generic for
Synthroid).

Hope you get some answers.

Nell