My female friend has alopecia — any online forums for her to connect to?

April 3, 2019 1:01 AM

My female friend has alopecia and is hoping to talk with other people who have gotten through it. Can you recommend any online forums for her? Thank you.
posted by hot_tea to Health & Fitness (4 answers total)

Not a forum, but @belgianwaffling on Twitter is a British writer with alopecia, and she’s very entertaining — she just wrote a thing for the Guardian on exploring the fashion for grey hair by changing wigs: here.
posted by LizardBreath at 4:16 AM on April 3, 2019 [2 favorites]

Rachel Fleit is a very cool person to follow on Instagram and Twitter who writes about her alopecia often (@rachelfleit).
posted by sallybrown at 5:29 AM on April 3, 2019

I like smartpatients.com for the kind of cancer I have, and it looks like they do have an alopecia community (assuming it's the same as alopecia areata).
posted by FencingGal at 6:24 AM on April 3, 2019

Bald Girls do Lunch. They have online and off line support.
posted by Rabarberofficer at 7:25 PM on April 3, 2019