Hi Ellis...

Because I have thyroid problems and had this experience...
eyebrow hair loss is a classic symptom of a thyroid problem.

Have you had your thyroid checked lately?

Suzanne

[Hello Suzanne... No! As a matter of fact, I haven't...
lately... (last time was 9 years ago...)

But now that you tell me this, I will check it next time I
take a blood test, which will be soon. I'll ask for T3, T4,
and TSH... anything else I should ask for, to check my thyroid?

Thanks for the suggestion. I DON'T THINK I HAVE A THYROID
PROBLEM, because I don't think I have any other symptom of
having a thyroid problem... but I'll check it.

And what shows a thyroid problem? I suppose, high TSH...
What about T3 and T4? I know they should be within the
"normal range" but what is OPTIMAL for T3 and T4?

I have two books about thyroid.... "Living Well with
Hypothyroidism" by Mary J. Shomon and another one which I
can't find right now, but I'll find it... so maybe I'll answer
my own question...

Thanks!

Ellis]

--- Ellis Toussier Bigio <etoussier@...> wrote:

> I am going to be SIXTY TWO years old in AUGUST!!!
>
> And I feel like a teenager... I walk faster than most people do...
> I never get tired... My brain and my mind are always working, my
> memory is good, I am in a good mood, always optimistic and always
> doing new projects. My sex life is the same (or better) as when
> I was 20...
>
> In nine years I have only had a cold once or twice... and it didn't
> even knock me down... I just sneeze and sniffle and feel a bit down...
>
> MY SON TOLD ME A FEW DAYS AGO: Pa, I don't know what you have today...
> YOU LOOK YOUNGER than usual... Now I believe you: You really are
> growing younger!
>
> I had to confess what is different: my EYEBROWS... I had a hair
> transplant on Tuesday, July 3, to thicken my eyebrows... 150 hairs,
> strategically placed, one by one...
>
> You can see several videos of how it is done, here:
>
> http://www.dhiglobal.com/
>
> Today, SIX DAYS LATER, the transplanted hairs have grown about
> one quarter of an inch, and I look a bit like Groucho Marx! This
> might make you laugh (it makes ME laugh) but I LIKE THEM like
> this!
>
> The doctor (a plastic surgeon) said that it would take about 2 or
> 3 weeks to look like I want it to, and maybe in 3 months it would
> be better... but in SIX DAYS it already LOOKS GOOD...
>
> I don't know why, I have a head full of hair, but my EYEBROWS have
> fallen out... I had empty spaces in my eyebrows, and they covered
> about 1 inch instead of about 2 inches from end to end. NOW I LOOK
> BETTER, in MY EYES (which are the only eyes that are important...)
>
> As I told a friend, if you ask me how are YOUR EYEBROWS, I have no
> idea how anybody's eyebrows are... I don't notice if they are full
> or missing... but if you ask me about MY EYEBROWS, it bothered me
> a lot that they were missing...
>
> I got 150 hairs transplanted one by one, from the back of my head
> to my eyebrows... It took about 1 hour. I was concious all the
> time... I walked out of the doctor's office without any problem,
> and I had no discomfort and no pain when the (local) anesthesia
> wore out... It cost me $750 dollars and the transplanted hairs will
> stay permanently, as long as I live because they don't fall out...
> I will even have to CUT THEM when they grow too long...
>
> The doctor said the transplanted hair will fall out, but it is
> growing so well that I doubt that I will notice... It was supposed
> to be until October that I would be happy with my new eyebrows,
> but I am very happy with them as they are, already...
>
> Perhaps it is vain to want eyebrows, but I wanted to have eyebrows
> that look as good as the rest of me... I don't know why I had lost
> eyebrows, but I had... And I didn't like how I looked with about
> half of my eyebrows gone...
>
> I am always amazed at all the anti aging progress that happened in
> the 20th Century... and now, in the 21st Century... 40 years ago
> we couldn't get bio-identical growth hormone or insulin or EPO or
> testosterone... If you could have gotten them, Doctors were scared
> of using hormones...
>
> We couldn't even get a glucose meter, which is basic to understand
> how to eat and to try to stay in optimal health... We couldn't
> get Botox... Ten years ago I could not have had an eyebrows
> transplant because they used to transplant strips of hair... now it
> is hair by hair, one by one... and it is much better than the old
> method...
>
> I am also going to get two or three sessions of Fraxell (laser
> therapy) done on my neck and on my face and hands... and 1 session of
> Thermage... and maybe Botox... and maybe Restilane... but no surgery,
> yet... maybe some day, but that day hasn't arrived yet.
>
> I like Fraxell and Thermage because they stimulate the skin to regrow
> collagen and elastin... New skin is stimulated to grow and old skin
> tightens... I think it looks very natural, and very good.
>
> So... The inside of me is staying young because I try to eat well
> and I take growth hormone and testosterone and insulin and EPO,
> etc., and I have had about 40 EDTA chelation, and more than a
> dozen hyperbaric oxygen treatments...
>
> Staying young on the inside is the most important because it is real...
> The outside is superficial... but the outside is what I
> can see in the mirror... and damn! What I couldn't see because
> they were gone was bothering me! So now they are back. I look
> a bit strange in my eyes, with Groucho Marx Eyebrows... but I like
> how I look... I look good!
>
> I really have grown younger in 9 years... or at least, I am not
> growing older very fast... The outside is superficial, maybe, but
> I like how it feels to look young and healthy... And the inside is
> feeling great, so I wanted to have an outside with eyebrows, to go along
> with the inside.
>
> - Ellis
>
>




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