Menopause

Advertisement Feature By Vanessa Lyn Gonzales  |  7 min read I wish someone had told me these things at 42. I was not losing hair yet — or if I...

Advertisement Feature By Vanessa Lyn Gonzales  |  7 min read The worst moment was not the shower drain, though that was bad. It was a photograph. A photo taken at...

Advertisement Feature By Vanessa Lyn Gonzales  |  6 min read If you have spent any time looking into menopause and hair loss, you will have seen oestrogen mentioned repeatedly. But...

Advertisement Feature By Vanessa Lyn Gonzales  |  7 min read I am not someone who gives up easily. Which is why, by the time I turned 51, I had tried...

Advertisement Feature By Vanessa Lyn Gonzales  |  5 min read Hair loss has many possible causes. Thyroid imbalance. Iron deficiency. Post-illness shedding. Crash dieting. But for women in their 40s...

Advertisement Feature By Vanessa Lyn Gonzales  |  7 min read It took me fourteen months, two GP appointments, and one private referral to a trichologist before anyone sat down and...

Advertisement Feature By Vanessa Lyn Gonzales  |  6 min read There is a page on the NHS website about hair loss. It covers male pattern baldness, alopecia areata, and a...

Advertisement Feature By Vanessa Lyn Gonzales  |  6 min read I used to joke that I was moulting like a Labrador. It was easier to laugh about it than to...

Advertisement Feature By Vanessa Lyn Gonzales  |  6 min read It happened on a Tuesday in November, in a bathroom that was otherwise entirely ordinary. I pulled my wet hair...

Advertisement Feature By Vanessa Lyn Gonzales  |  7 min read For almost two years, I convinced myself it was stress. The clump on my pillow every morning. The small nest...