My Hair Has Been Shedding For Months - Will It Ever Get Back To Normal Again?

If you are reading this article, I suspect that you already know that if you shed for any real length of time, you can tell a difference in your hair. It doesn't take all that long to lose volume and to feel as if your hair loss is becoming quite noticeable. This can get very depressing and you can start to wonder if your hair is going to ever fully recover and if it is ever going to look as good as it once did.

I heard from someone who said: "my hair has been shedding for about four months. I think that I have telogen effluvium due to some medication that I was taking. I have stopped the medication but my hair is still shedding. I know that I have to be patient and that this should eventually stop. But will my hair look normal once it grows back? Will I have the same amount of volume?" I will try to address these questions below.

Your Hair Should Grow Back Normally If You Don't Have An Androgenetic Component Or Very Chronic Telogen Effluvium: This is my opinion based on my experience with this issue. I am not a medical professional. But most of the time, if you have benign and run of the mill shedding that is occurring seasonally or happens because of some other stress on the body, hair growth should resume within about three months. And once it does, if there is nothing affecting the follicle or your hair cycles, then there is no reason whatsoever that your hair won't go back into the growth cycle and grow just fine. Granted, this can be frustratingly slow process. Since it takes hair about a month to grow a half of an inch, it can be a little while before you see any meaningful recovery. But assuming there is nothing else wrong then it's my opinion that yes, you should eventually have a normal head of hair again.

Growth Can Be Impeded In Some Cases: Things can get a little more tricky if you have androgenetic alopecia or if you have chronic telogen effluvium (which is defined as effluvium lasting for longer than three months.) Both conditions can eventually shrink your hair follicles which can cause your hair to become miniaturized. This means that the individual strands become more fine in texture until that affected follicle stops producing a healthy hair. This leads to thinning and eventually sparse areas on the scalp, depending upon how severe this is. This doesn't mean that you can't regrow healthy hair, but it definitely helps to identify the problem early. There are things that you can do to try to protect the follicle (like using lasers and anti androgens) and to encourage regular regrowth, but this is much more effective if you can get the follicle before it has already started the process of miniaturization.

So to answer the question posed, it is definitely possible to have normal hair after shedding. However, if you have an androgen driven hair loss or you have a chronic shedding condition, then this process usually requires some care to the follicles. How do you know the difference? By evaluating the length of time the shedding takes place, noting if the hair loss is patterned or in high androgenetic areas, and evaluating if you have any other signs of high amounts of androgens and / or sensitivity to the same.

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