I'm glad I found this thread and want to share my experience and hope to find support. I'm a 39 yo female, healthy with no pre-existing conditions. Got sick in August 2023 but my two covid tests came back invalid (I think they had expired) so not sure if it was actually covid. A little over a month later I started losing massive quantities of hair. Fast forward to 9 months later and my hair loss has not lessened at all. Here's what I've been doing:
*The majority of my hair loss has been at the sides of my head--has this been the most common for you? I can now visibly see my scalp over both temporal areas
*Took Vegamour gummies and scalp serum daily for 7 mos. Saw some growth around my front hair line but no growth where the majority of my hair loss occurred, at the sides of my head
*Switched to Nutrafol supplements, have been on them for 2 months. So far no decrease in shedding, no new hair growth
*Daily massage serum or rosemary oil into my scalp
*Only wash hair 1x/wk
*Have had my scalp microneedled 3x (not PRP)
*Hormones and thyroid levels normal

I feel daily anxiety about my hair loss, especially because it's been almost 10 months with no regrowth. I now dread taking showers and even going to the gym and sweating, which makes my curls clump together to only reveal more of my scalp. It's almost made me a social hermit as it's taken a huge toll on my self-esteem. When I caught Covid, I was coming off of 3 years of intense, intense stress (new doctor, opened my own practice during the pandemic). I shut down my practice at the end of December 2023 and much of my stress is gone, so I assumed that my hair loss would slow, but this isn't the case.

Can anybody tell me where they saw most of the hair loss on their scalp and how long they saw the shedding for as well as how long it took for them to see growth? My fear is that this hair loss will be permanent.

Thank you guys for the love and support.