thinking about stopping treatment
for context, I have alopecia ophiasis, I'm missing about 2 inches of hair around my head, and I have 2 patches kinda reminiscent of male pattern baldness in the front that I can cover easily. I've been taking dupixent for about 5 years and it completely got rid of my patches. before then, I lost about 60-70% of my hair.
I'm at a weird point where I cant stand having alopecia anymore despite it not progressing and being able to hide it mostly. its just frustrating because I cant do cute updo styles like other people can without showing the sides of my head, and wind shows my hairline as well.
my dilemma is I want to stop taking dupixent and let my hair fall out because I feel like i would be so much more confident with wigs as opposed to my alopecia pattern right now, but the process of losing my hair and potentially shaving it and switching to wigs would be so hard in highschool. but I find myself obsessed with the idea, like I spend probably 30 minutes a day scrolling and looking at wigs and thinking of how they would look on me.
does anyone have any sort of advice thats relevant at all? I know this is kind of just a ramble but I feel sorta lost
Posted Mar 6, 2026, 4:07 AM UTC