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Maybe you guys who have been growing your hair for a few years can tell us if you shed more in the spring and summer (losing your winter coat, so to speak) and less in the fall and winter (putting on your winter coat, so to speak).
I just want to be prepared if I start losing more hair soon, so I don't freak out.
Thanks!
DavidH
Hello there David!
I've was kind of obssessed about shedding for the first 2 and a half years of growing out, more or less. That made me be always searching the net about it. I have found out that there are phases in the life where people shed a lot of hair, certain ages for instance... I also found out there is a post partum shedding, which obviously applies to women only. Stress can make you shed more too.
Overally I come to think it depends on your hair cycle. But most people do believe it's common to shed more in the Autumn, as do animals and trees, that shed they're leaves too. I tend to shed more in the autumn, I really can tell. During Summer shedding can become more noticeable or een be more in fact, and I think it may be because you wash your hair more in the Summer.
Anyways, just don't get obssessed by it. It's normal to shed hair and it is a part of haing long hair, it will obviously be more and more noticeable as it grows, but the amount of strands will most likely be the same.
I use to measure my ponytail circumference every month (actually today is measure day =P) and it helps me know everything is fine about my shedding, as long as the ponytail circumference does not decrease.
Maybe someone else can give you some more factual info tought... hope I helped anyways ^^
....as I entire the Autumn of Life, there has been continuous
"Hair-Fall". Sigh !!!
I seem to shed a little more during the summer, a little less during the winter. The variation averages out over 8-10 years of hair (;-)
Ed
I agree with Ed it's the opposite I loose more in the atumn
and winter and less in the spring.
Kevin
I heard that too.
I also heard hair grows faster in cold months.
Since we don't have fur, we don't shed our winter coat ;-)
Each hair has a growth cycle, which on average is about 3.5 years. So every 3.5 years a hair will stop growing and fall out (Some people have cycles a little less or a little more). The root will rest a couple of months, then begin growing a new hair. Luckily for us, all hairs on our head aren't at the same point in their growth cycle, so they don't all fall out at once!
The cycles are pretty evenly distributed, but every once in a while a person will experience a period where more than the average amount of hairs is cycling at the same time, thus experience more than average hair "shedding".
Some people seem to experience this during change of seasons. Personally, sometimes it's at a change of season, but other times it is not. It's all by chance.
By the way...your hair cycles are the same regardless of the length of your hair. But of course it's more noticeable the longer the hair is.
Hello David,
I loose more hair in Autumn, during some weeks. In summer, I loose less hair (and so it seems to grow a little faster...). About one year and a half, I was obsessed by this ! Since, I've realized that I haven't been bald ! (hopefully :p). So, I just don't mind, even if I count hair in my comb sometimes :)
Good bye
Vivien