Alopecia Areata shows up as round or oval patches on the scalp or other places on the body that grow hair.

Her face was a similar shape to mine, and I found myself wondering what I’d look like if I ever had the guts to cut my hair like that. Alopecia Areata Ophiasis has a specific pattern of hair loss, where hair falls out from the sides and lower back of the scalp.

Usually, in Patchy Alopecia Areata, hair will regrow over a period of months or years, but regrowth cannot be guaranteed. This condition can be hard to diagnose because it looks very similar to other types of hair loss, namely Telogen Effluvium and Androgenetic Alopecia (male or female pattern hair loss). I bought a pair of straighteners once, mostly because every woman seems to own them, but I’ve never used them. However, some people experience such rapid hair loss that patches are not seen before most of the scalp hair is lost.

It is quite common for people with Alopecia Areata to experience hair loss on and off throughout their lives.Alopecia Areata Ophiasis can be more difficult to treat because it does not respond as quickly to medication. However once the condition has developed to Alopecia Totalis or Alopecia Universalis, the chances of full regrowth become smaller. g. from an infection) or outside the body (from something in your environment) and it could easily be combination of both of these. I was distraught – I had only just met the love of my life – but I also found myself filled with gratitude.

Thuli Madonsela speaks about the importance of SA's political future in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It’s described as “Dolly Alderton meets The Fault in Our Stars for grown-ups”, and I hope it will appeal to women of all ages, whatever they’re going through. Alopecia Areata is thought to be an autoimmune condition that causes hair to fall out, usually in usually in round or oval patches on the scalp or other places on the body that grow hair, such as the beard, eyebrows or eyelashes. But I didn’t have the guts, partly because of the beauty standards I’d been held to in Brazil and by the glossy magazines I’d grown up reading.

Traction Alopecia is when hair falls out because it has been pulled in the same way for a long time. Sarah has lived with Alopecia since she was 15 and understands how important the work is that Alopecia UK do in supporting and advocating for the Alopecia community. Because yes, my hair is thin and lacklustre and yes, I envy my friends with luscious long locks, but at the end of the day, I’m still here. In Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia, hair loss starts in the centre of the scalp and slowly spreads outwards.

I make notes on my phone whenever I think of good material, so that when I sit down at my computer, I have a starting point. A really touching story, comforting and warm story about friendship, support, life lessons and dealing with unexpected illness. Alopecia Universalis is characterised by hair loss across the entire scalp, face (including eyebrows and eyelashes), and the rest of the body (including pubic hair). Single Bald Female is a story of love, friendship, resilience and survival, and I hope it falls into the hands of someone who truly adores it. Since graduating from King’s in 2005, I have always used my language skills – first as a journalist covering Latin American news, and later writing about Latin American restaurants (yes, it’s a tough job but someone’s got to do it).Diffuse Alopecia Areata is characterised by sudden thinning of the hair all over the scalp rather than patches of hair loss. Around her, her friends’ lives continue to follow the script, with the big white weddings and the baby scans. In Alopecia Areata, cells from the immune system (a specific type of T cell, known as NKG2D+ T cells) gather around the hair follicles. Then, just three months after my book launch, after suffering from pain in my sternum, I found out the cancer had spread to my bones and was now incurable.