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I am new here and wanted to share my story for maybe some help or guidance. Prior to having covid in December of 2020 I was a 1/2 marathon runner. After having covid for the first time I was diagnosed for the first time in my entire life with asthma. I now have inhalers and a nebulizer and a pulmonologist. I get winded just walking around the halls at the school where I teach or up my stairs at my home from my basement. I have never experience this before. I have always been fit and active. I was a health/wellness coach. I used to wear a an oxygen deprivation mask to deprive my lung of oxygen to help me train to get to higher elevation level for mountain trail running. None of this makes sense to me and just frustrates me. Exercise has always been my outlet for mental health and clarity and to challenge myself. Then I got the 2 vaccines, to only get covid two more times. I then got the booster and two months after receiving the booster, I got out of the shower to notice I had no arm hair, my eyebrow hair was almost all gone and I had a round spot on my head where my hair was gone. As time passed (weeks) the spot on my head got bigger and more started to show up. My PCP sent me to a coupe dermatologist to only be diagnosed with Alopecia Areata. I ended up losing over 80%-85% of my hair on my head. They had told me that I wasn't the first case they had seen this happen to after the booster. Unfortunately, there is no research or evidence to back it so they are just diagnosing people who were going through the similar situation I was with different types of Alopecia depending on the severity of hair loss. I have other things going on and I am not sure if they are covid related, but it is frustrating to have no answers and to go to specialist that just tell me I need therapy. I was almost convinced that I was losing my mind with the other health issues. Thankfully, I have a PCP that listens, but when you have no other doctors that do what am I supposed to do?

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So sorry for this loss of good health. I've had hair loss all my life, and have alopecia. This was exacerbated by Covid for me.
My body doesn't handle stress very well, thus hair loss.
I use hair growth vitamins, biotin 10k, minoxidil, they help, but it's not the way it was.

Why is this posted in a thread about nicotine patches?