Hair Falling Out

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both of my wigs are human hair and i only paid i think like 40 bucks a wig. I got it at a beauty supply store that sells beauty stuff for black people. My one wig i have a curly perm in it. if you go look on the lupus webpage in the photo album that pic of me in there i have my curly wig on in that pic. but like i said i don't wear them anymore.

Love Kimi

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Good wigs 100% human hair, all sizes at WWW.paulayoung.com Click on

especially yours This is a company that used to make

beautiful hats & it was called a’s hat box. I called to see

if they are still in business and they have a few hats but mostly wigs now. I

talked for a long time on the 800 # and the girl was real nice. The wigs

are really reasonable!! 1-

Sincerely, Cheryl in CA

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Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 4:35

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To: lupies

Subject: Re: : Hair

Falling Out

I've probably had lupus all my life, but wasn't diagnosed with it until

almost all of my hair had fallen out. I became bald, and had to wear wigs for

almost 5 years before the hair grew back. I still have patches where I have

nothing, but at least I can cover up the spots with the hair that is there.

In my experience, after trying creams, injections, pills, and rubs, I truly

think that the thing that helped me most was accepting the hair loss and

working with it. Yes, it is terrible to beome bald or to have such large

patches that you can't cover them. And to have your hair sail away on the wind

-- yipes!

But after I became resolved to my bald state, I found that there were some

things to be grateful for:

1) When you have to wear wigs, you NEVER have a bad hair day!

2) You can change your look at the drop of a wig -- no messy dyes or dos...you

can be long, short, teased or straight and any color of the rainbow. (And I got

a lot of