A strong word to explain and tell you a little bit about’androgenetic alopecia.

I don't really want to give a particular hierarchy to this article. It will be written as it comes just to tell you all about it and me. Sorry for the disorder and the lack of titles and organization.

This is a subject that I have already discussed on the YouTube channel. This is the one for which I have received the most emails and comments.. So I thought I should tell you more about it.

Not being a doctor or working in the medical profession, I am telling you about my experience and what I experience everyday. I don't have a lot of science and I could be wrong.

Many things were said in my video so I apologize if I repeat myself. I also wanted to clear up one thing. Indeed some women or men have alopecia much more advanced than me and I am aware of it. But I just think I'm a human when I say I don't live well. When you are overweight, acne, a malformation or other, we don't spend our time telling you that you have nothing because some people are much worse than you. Yes it gets worse and i'm sorry for these people, but I just wish I didn’t have to deal with it.

Androgenetic alopecia is a “disease”. I do not like this word because we generally associate it with serious pathologies involving our life. Just like some people can't stand their noses, their cellulite or their size, I can't stand my hair. The only difference, alopecia starts when you become a young adult and it evolves over the years.

Always pretty round and complexed as a teenager, I paid no more attention than that to my appearance. And when I look at the old photos, until about my 19 years old I had beautiful hair which grew very well and was rather thick. I remember my twenties approaching having kept a little girl who had at one time grabbed my ponytail and told me that I didn't have a lot of hair. I didn’t feel like it had resonated with me but maybe if, I started asking myself questions around 1 and après. By going to the hairdresser I was constantly entitled to the same comments that I did not treat my hair, don't cut them enough, had to take food supplements.

My father always had this baldness, that he kindly passed on to me, but I never thought that one day I too could have the same type of concern. Like everyone I thought this reserved for men.

1 year later, after cutting my hair regularly, do tons of care and test dozens of food supplements nothing worked out. My hair had become very fine, I lost them a lot, they started to grow very slowly and I started to see my central line a little too much. The onset of baldness.

A series of exams later at the Saboureau center in Paris, the verdict of androgenetic alopecia fell. And the sentence that struck me the most was the fateful : it's a lifetime treatment…

Androgenetic alopecia actually results from a hormonal imbalance, I have too many male hormones in my body, hence the strong character ? I’m laughing but it’s been a while since I can talk about it in such a relaxed way. After facing the girls in your circle of friends who take you out “you still have less and less hair”, we're starting to get used to it all.

Where am i from my alopecia ? In all this I have a crazy chance, it was diagnosed soon enough, drugs help me slow down the fall and it hardly changes. But I admit that in everyday life it is very complicated to live for a woman. After trying all the cuts, colors, food supplements and even extensions, I try every day to camouflage this at best.

Nothing handicap of course, but I’m already complexed by a lot of other things so sometimes I find it unfair not to have a nice mane too.

There is no quick fix unfortunately, the most effective drugs are not recommended until you have had a child, transplants are overpriced and painful. The rest is still very rough and expensive.

Why are you talking about this today ? I was walking last Friday, and I ran into a young woman with very advanced alopecia, she must have been my age. I was shocked and I admit you are afraid… afraid it will happen to me one day too. These are not “than” hair certainly, but for me it’s a sign of femininity.

I will surely be able to write a novel to explain this a little to you and tell you how badly I live it… but let's stay there. Do not hesitate to ask me your questions on the subject if you have any. The earlier we deal with it, the more likely we are to stop it.