I have a bald spot... so weird.
Oct. 9th, 2017 04:38 pmWell, this is bizarre. Yesterday I was sitting with my fingers in my hair, and my finger felt like it was touching a smooth spot. I'd felt this one time before, like maybe a week or two ago, and at the time the smooth spot felt maybe a finger-width across but I never went looking for it, just wrote it off as some irregularity in hair growth. Yesterday I felt it again, or maybe more, and decided to lift the hair off where my finger was and go looking with a hand mirror (plus a wall mirror).
Holy crap, I have a bald spot! I got![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
heisenbug to measure it, and it's an inch and a half across in all directions. It's not gross -- in fact, it's very smooth and pettable. It is unexpected, however.
Per the internet, the sudden appearance of a single, round bald spot means this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopecia_areata
It's auto-immune, not really harmful, and often resolves on its own after a few months to a year, but Smitten got steroid shots to fix the same thing a few years ago and she gave me her dermatologist's contact info (closed for Columbus Day, of course).
I'm feeling very lucky about this spot being hidden. It doesn't show when my hair is either down or in a ponytail, and that means the whole thing is a curiosity. If it showed, I'd feel super self-conscious about it.
Holy crap, I have a bald spot! I got
heisenbug to measure it, and it's an inch and a half across in all directions. It's not gross -- in fact, it's very smooth and pettable. It is unexpected, however. Per the internet, the sudden appearance of a single, round bald spot means this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopecia_areata
It's auto-immune, not really harmful, and often resolves on its own after a few months to a year, but Smitten got steroid shots to fix the same thing a few years ago and she gave me her dermatologist's contact info (closed for Columbus Day, of course).
I'm feeling very lucky about this spot being hidden. It doesn't show when my hair is either down or in a ponytail, and that means the whole thing is a curiosity. If it showed, I'd feel super self-conscious about it.
