long lurker, rare poster, and i have a slight dready problem.

(get ready for a long post)

sooo....
i had dreads for about...
3 years, truly i forgot when i started them
but i say it was about a year ago starting summer
that i decided to not do the twisty method
that method is a bunch of bull anyway
i "thought" that was the only way it will lock
but that's what i get for listening to people

the real problem is that i have
a bald spot
huge lol
or maybe its just thinnish hair
but....
i've had that for a while
its just that around a year ago i noticed it more
i guess it became noticeable when i stopped twisting
at first i was thinking... wow going bald at 18
what luck.. lol :nopity:

but, my mother used to say i had a "strawberry"
[(strawberry hemangioma) google it.]
at birth... on the top of my head
i started to wonder if if that could cause
weird hair growth.
i did some research, asked my best friend wiki a couple of questions.
and
i found this
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopecia_mucinosa)
which is
"(also known as "Follicular mucinosis") generally presents, but not exclusively, as erythematous plaques or flat patches without hair primarily on the scalp and face.
This can also present on the body as a follicular mucinosis and may represent a systemic disease."

i went to "list of cutaneous conditions"
and "s hemangioma" was there
that bastard.

knowing that, i'm wondering if i'm really "going bald"
hell.. even if i do im going to rock the rest of the dreads i got left lol

cell phone pictures.
i probably messed up the size.

 

humm it does look baldy, but it might be cause of that fat fucker on the top of your head eating everything in his path.

I guess you have the right attitude, they are good looking dreads anyway :cheers2:

 

i think they look fine. i'm not really sure if your asking something though.....

your hair must grow really slow though, cuz my last cut was right before moe.down last year and my hairs longer then yours.

seriously though, i like your dreads. you kind of have the opposite thing as me. you can see defined sections along your scalp where your dreads form. with me, and i know my hair does this from my last set of locks cuz i actually saw it after i cut them... my hair kind of meanders all over the place before it gets sucked into a dread. i kind of like it like that though cuz i like the messy ununiform look to it. but it doesnt really look like your getting bald.

what is this twisty method you speak of?

 

a method that usually works with black people hair.
its a rip off especially if you pay for someone to
retwist them for ya
usually the result is smallish dreads

funny thing is that i usually dont take pictures
up to now this is possibly the 6th picture i've taken
in a good 2 years

i'll add one of a congo or 5

 

I think your dreads look great and it doesn't look like your balding to me it looks like it's just pulling at the scalp a lil. They look good my sister has one of those strawberry things.

 

My monitor is very wide, please don't format your posts so they only occupy the left hand side of the screen.

 

Thats hell funny lol

 

wow, i thought you were my ex and i had to look real close at your pics. good job on quitting the whole twisty thing. how long has it been since your last twist? i know a lot of people with afro type hair that get bald spots because they are constantly twisting or braiding their hair into sections. you'll see old ladies with bald lines on their head from constant tight braids. i'd say give em several months without twisting, and see how it goes. eat well to help hair growth too. besides, it really doesn't look all that bad.

 

hmm. sometime before last summer
i think.

well i can say its almost been 2 years
time flys by so fast..

 

hahaha sorry dude
i hate having just a huge wall of text.
...to me it seems like it'll throw people off from reading it
if i'm not writing a paper.
[enter] is my bud

 

Ahoy ... For Sure Vig, it’s very common in South Africa and I’ve seen quite a bit of it in London

Seriously SB, it’s the furthest thing from standard balding patterns, instead it’s self inflicted … if you chill the hair will grow back … and what Vig said, eat well … and really, it’s a very small area of hair that has been affected, it could have been worse if you continued twisting.

 

i thought about it and said to myself it would have been worse

i also was thinking, if i knew i had "that" before i got dreadlocks, would i had considered into getting them.
probably not haha.

but then again i wouldn't have bothered to read up about something new.