Is anyone else going through this as well??   :o

Wow, you too?
I've been losing mad amounts of hair this month. It's crazy.  :-/

I thought it was just me...   :(

Yep - I always start to shed about this time of year.

I just started noticing it the other day. I was wondering if my hair had changed it's mind and didn't like what I was doing to it anymore. ::)

;D Glad to find out it's not just me. I had been noticing more hair shed in the shower. And I thought OMG!  :o Am I doing something wrong? Does my hair hate the new products? Glad to find out it's nothing scary like that. Apparently 'tis the season to be shedding.  ;D

Apparently.  ;D

Yeppers - summer is always the season to be shedding, and growing in the new hairs.  I've noticed that if I don't keep my hair clean like if I wash it only once a week I will loose a lot but if I wash it daily I shed less.  I also wonder the same thing too livingandlovingx3 about if my hair was liking what I was doing to it as far as washing it only once a week.  Or, once daily.

Dear Hair:
  Please note that if one were to decide a season to shed excessively, the BEGINNING of summer would be far more practical than the END.

  Thank you,
       The Management.


(at least, it seems backwards to me! ;)

;D Those were my thoughts too, Leliel.

;D
Here, here!

Me too!!

Now i know why my almost non exsitent shedding is on the rises the last couple of weeks.

Dear Hair,
I would greatly appreciate if you would stay where you are. I treat you well so if your going to jump ship please do so at the begining of summer. I'll need all of you come winter.

Thank you,
the head on wich you live


(is this too much to ask)

its happening again!!  :-?

I have noticed some shedding too, but our hair grows through 3 cycles, so even though we are shedding hair we are still growing hair in its place.

I think I shed year round!  Unless it's my husband's hair that I'm seeing on the floor!!(Shhhh,don't say anything to him!)

I think I shed year round too.  At least, I don't notice shedding any more or less at any particular time of the year.

My hairdresser says it's normal to lose about 10-12 hairs/day and it is normal to shed in the summer.  We had a very chilly early summer; it didn't get really warm until July, so shedding in late summer wouldn't be unexpected.

I wish for me it was 10-12 hairs daily!!

I've always been accused of being a major shedder.  The reason why my dad preferred my hair short which makes no sense to me as length shouldn't have any influence on how much hair you shed though some say that the longer your hair, the fewer hairs you actually shed.  I'm just finding that hair cut and length makes no difference to me.  My hairs are dark and the diameter is wide so perhaps that's why it appears as if I lose more hairs than fx. hub who has short, fine, blond hairs?

I thought 50+ hairs was normal.  I think I lose more than 12 hairs a day yet I don't experience any thinning and my hair amount is already sparse so I would notice if there was a sudden thinning.  So I think I'm a year round shedder too.

Drear wrote on Sep 24^th, 2009 at 4:27am:

I've always been accused of being a major shedder.  The reason why my dad preferred my hair short which makes no sense to me as length shouldn't have any influence on how much hair you shed...

I wouldn't think the length of hair would make a difference as to quantity of shedding either.  Maybe if the hair is short, it's not as noticeable when it does shed, thereby creating an illusion of less shedding?  


Drear wrote on Sep 24^th, 2009 at 4:27am:

I thought 50+ hairs was normal.  I think I lose more than 12 hairs a day yet I don't experience any thinning and my hair amount is already sparse so I would notice if there was a sudden thinning.  So I think I'm a year round shedder too.

Yeah, I think I lose way more hair than 10-12 a day too.  I lose probably twice that much in the shower every morning!  At least it seems that way when I'm picking it out of the drain!  :)  Then I lose more in my towel, and when I comb it, and throughout the day.  I have always shed a lot of hair like that.

Well, this may or may not help, but I used to be a dog groomer, and (bear with me here) we used to have people bring in their Labrador Retrievers all the time to get them clipped with a 10-blade (almost down to the skin).  When I asked the vet tech about this, saying that it seemed silly to clip a short-haired dog, she told me that they shed less when you clip them.  When I looked at her like she was silly, she clarified, saying that it seems like they shed less because the hair shaft length is much shorter.

I've read in numerous places, though, that it's normal to shed 50-100 hairs daily.  Also, with long hair I've found that it looks like you've shed more hairs than you have because the hair is all coiled up and bent around.  I used to think I lost at least 100 hairs a day, but when I took the time to count, found that it was in fact closer to 50.

Thanks for sharing that info.!  I'm sure you've put many minds to rest!

YesitsReal wrote on Sep 25^th, 2009 at 11:01pm:

Well, this may or may not help, but I used to be a dog groomer, and (bear with me here) we used to have people bring in their Labrador Retrievers all the time to get them clipped with a 10-blade (almost down to the skin).  When I asked the vet tech about this, saying that it seemed silly to clip a short-haired dog, she told me that they shed less when you clip them.  When I looked at her like she was silly, she clarified, saying that it seems like they shed less because the hair shaft length is much shorter. I've read in numerous places, though, that it's normal to shed 50-100 hairs daily.  Also, with long hair I've found that it looks like you've shed more hairs than you have because the hair is all coiled up and bent around.  I used to think I lost at least 100 hairs a day, but when I took the time to count, found that it was in fact closer to 50.

This will (with your identity anonymous) be copied and pasted to my dad if he ever brings up the shedding topic again! ;)  I actually think he can understand it better if explained in comparison to dogs.