Carola - when I first started treatment my hair was very thin and looked terrible. As I went through treatment it started to fill back in, but I still have issues with the front part of my scalp, around my forehead especially and also along the top of my scalp. The hair grows there, it just won't grow very long yet. It grows to about 1-3 inches long then it falls out and starts all over again. I guess it's my body's way of telling me that I'm not quite back in balance yet. My hair is shiny and healthy looking, and much, much thicker than when I started. In the beginning of treatment I asked Matia about my hair at every appointment, and she always reassured me that it would grow back. I think it's common to have trouble sticking to the diet. You can see a lot of posts on this site about this topic. The yeast and bad bacteria in your body don't want you to succeed. Try not to see it so much as a failure. To me failure implies that you have no chance of succeeding. Cut yourself some slack and do the best you can to get started back on the diet again. Carol 

Hello,
Just wanted to let you know that my hair is falling out in MASSES!!! OMG, for about a month now, I can literally grab without very much force at all a whole handful of hair at any given time.  Matia assures us that it will grow back as the body regenerates, so have faith.  That is all we can have.

Hi Carola,
I totally feel you! I have been in treatment for almost a year. When I first started
treatment I was extreamly controlled on the diet however, I fell off the wagon
over Christmas and can not seem to stay back on the diet for more then a week.
I have battled my with eating disorders since my teens, so a strict diet psychologically
is not a great idea for me. One thing I have noticed while reading this site is we
ICer's are pretty hard on ourselves. For me the decision to treat this disease with
a natural approach made the most sense, and at the same time was the most scary
It is scary because my recovery depends on me, and there are times I wonder
if I have the ability to properly care for myself. These are the darkest times. I
believe battling with these self doubts is part of recovery. I have started writing
in my journal every night all the things I did that were good for me that day.It
helps me realize that I make many more good decisions then bad. The second thing
I do that calms me down is having key phrases I repeat to myself. The most
helpful is, "everything is always changing". Case in point, my hairloss, it started
falling out a few month into treatment and has significantly slowed and is growing
back in. Just like Matia said it would.

I would say my hair loss slowed at about 8 months, and I have a halo of baby
hair that stands straight up all over my head. My hair still falls out more then
I would like it to but the scary handfuls stopped.

Did any of you go completely bald?  Did you have to wear a wig?

This last time I have been on a hardcore cleanse and masses and I mean masses of hair were falling out...It is awful because my head actually feels cold.  The worst part is that when the hair falls out, it causes me more stress, which I am sure causes more hair to fall out.  I hate it.  I really think it is caused by crazy hormone fluxuations...It gets worse at sometimes than others... mine is worse at the very top of my head where little boys get cowlicks....  What I tell myself is that this is the old BAD hair, the unhealthy hair from when I was sick and what is going to grow in will be beautiful and strong.  Even worse, the hair loss motivates me to stay on the diet.  How sad is that?  my own vanity motivates me more than my bladder...Well, the good Lord speaks to all of us in different ways.

i had the same thing too and was getting very upset... part of the prob is that the longer older hair splits easily and like velcro actually pulls out the other weak hair.  I just got my hair cut yesterday in an inverted bob and love it... so much less hair is falling out already... the style is really cute and helps you feel stylish when you are feeling not so stylish... go to my facebook page if you want to see it.  it looks good with all sorts of hair, curly or straigh and really really adds incredible body to thinning hair...

just wanted to let you all know that my hair was falling out from the start with treatment. It didn't matter what i was on. Matia kept assuring me it would grow  back. Now i look at my hair and while it isn't as thick as it was it feels thicker and i don't have and obvious bald spot. it was not obvious that it was growing back. i didn't see baby hairs . what  i do feel is the actuall strands are thicker. I am also on 4 sf and gml of high doses at this time so just because your cleansing doesn't mean you can't get your hair back. I am 19 months in treatment and i just saw this starting to happen a few weeks ago. i still have bladder pain so it wasn't the last thing to come back as i was told. now it's not as thick as it was but i am sure it will continue. i was also and plan on starting to drink raw goat milk when this happened.

Nicole, when you said the strands got thicker, this brings up a question I have... when someone's hair has visibly lost volume, does that mean the individual strands are less thick, or that you're losing quantities of hair, or can it be both?  When people speak of "thinning hair," I don't know if that means the hair literally gets thinner, if that's even possible?  I'm trying to figure out what it is in my case.  Since before treatment I've had lots more hair in the shower drain so clearly I'm losing more, but beyond that my hair is just flat.