Smells like Rain

Image from LardLad

Or not... This is me. Literally.

Okay. So I'm not yellow, a cartoon, named Marge Simpson, rocking blue hair, or many other things; but I think I have lost hair from stress and I did cry. A lot. A lost a lot of hair, and I cried a lot.

A few months ago I noticed that during extra stressful situations I would get headaches. Only instead of being just in the front of my head, they would be in random places on my scalp. Not like anything I've had before. It wasn't like my hair was being pulled, it was like something happening under my scalp. Despite that, I assumed it was my braids. Braids never thinned my hair out before (it actually helped me thicken my hair up, back in the day), even when I DID wear them tight. They weren't tight. I removed the braids. It stopped for a while, and came back a few times here and there. I thought it was over.

I didn't notice on Monday until I relaxer. After a relaxer your hair is flat, so I was able to really tell. The new growth I had for 4.5 months was covering my thinning scalp so I never noticed until I relaxed it. It wasn't from the relaxer, I only lost a couple of strains from normal shedding. After looking closer and seeing it was in more than a few areas, I reviewed some pictures. It was happening over time, around the same time I was getting these headaches!

My thinning is worse on my left side, and on the top of my head towards the back. I had the worst headaches in these places. The bad aches were usually on the top of my head, where the thinning is most noticeable. Last night during Noel's album release party he was nervous and stressed out, so I was getting nervous and stressed out. That same spot on my head was hurting the whole night. It didn't stop until after I was home resting for a few hours.

There are a number of things that may be the reason and the headaches are just a coincidence. I won't know until I can get to the doctor. Sounds like fun without health insurance. Oops! Can't think about money. I. Might. Stress. Out. Um... At least I no longer have to clip my ends from being thinner than the rest of my hair?


Too Long; Didn't Read: Loosing my hair adds to my stress, and stressing out makes me lose hair. Fun times.