Fine shedding hair! - Hair Problems Message Board

singer1 · 01-07-2004, 05:25 PM

Hi everyone. I am 40 years old and have past the shoulder length hair. My hair is ver fine, but, I have alot of it. Does anyone experience so much shedding after a hair wash that you can run your hands down the hair and have so much come out? It's probably not as bad as I make it sound, but I can pull out small clumps of like knotted up hair. Is this unusual? My hairdresser says that we lose about 100 strands of hair a day, but, I don't know.

Kaycee41 · 01-08-2004, 01:27 PM

Wow, you just described my hair! I'm 44 and have long hair. The hairs are very, very thin and I have to be very careful because my hair damages very easy. I have a lot of hair so people look at me funny when I say I have thin hair, but I mean the hair "shaft" are thin. I too seem to lose a lot of hair when I wash or comb it. It seems to fall out more when I have gone through any body-change such as losing weight or going on birth control pills. Guess it's normal for me. I use to worry that I was going to go bald, but it never seems to get so thin that it's noticable.

singer1 · 01-08-2004, 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Kaycee41

Wow, you just described my hair! I'm 44 and have long hair. The hairs are very, very thin and I have to be very careful because my hair damages very easy. I have a lot of hair so people look at me funny when I say I have thin hair, but I mean the hair "shaft" are thin. I too seem to lose a lot of hair when I wash or comb it. It seems to fall out more when I have gone through any body-change such as losing weight or going on birth control pills. Guess it's normal for me. I use to worry that I was going to go bald, but it never seems to get so thin that it's noticable.

Do you really think that being on the B/C pill makes the hair shed more?

Kaycee41 · 01-09-2004, 07:54 AM

It did for me. About 2-3 months after starting the pills, I noticed that I had much more shedding. It lasted a few months, then started slowing down. I had to change brands of BC because I was getting alot of "break-through bleeding" during the month. When I started taking the different brand of BC pills...same thing happened...started shedding more hair a few months after starting. Now I'm back to normal. I think we might notice hair lose more because we have long hair. It's harder to miss a foot-long hair in the sink or on your pillow.

silverandgold · 01-09-2004, 03:15 PM

Well, I have the same problem too! I have hair past my shoulders and I shed like crazy. My hair is fine, and with the amount that I lose per day, you would think I would be bald. In the shower, I lose a bunch of hair. Just running conditioner through my hair leaves me with a handful of hairs. Then when I comb my hair our (no matter HOW gentle I am) I lose more. I can just run my fingers through my dry hair and come out with a bunch of strands. I didn't know if my hair was breaking off or what? Yet I don't have any bald spots or anything. I am 35, not on birth control or any medication at all. I know they say 100-150 hairs per day is normal, but it really does look like I lose a LOT more than that. My ex-boyfriend used to call my hairbrush my "pet" because there was so much hair in it before I cleaned it out. When I would pull all the hair out of the brush, I could sew a clip on it and sell it as a hairpiece!