Three years ago, Anna Maxted, 50, started losing her hair… But it took a year to get a diagnosis because she was too ashamed to discuss it Three years ago my hair started falling out.
It was a gradual rather than a sudden change, but it fell on my desk and my clothes; I’d find strays in the kitchen cupboards, on dinner plates, stuck to the peanut butter jar.
When my husband lay in bed and I leant over to kiss him, hairs would drop like dead leaves on to the pillow. When I washed my hair in the bath, hundreds of strands would end up floating on the water, so I switched to showers, not wanting to see them, and I stopped washing it as regularly.