Re: Eyelash Loss - Naturopathic Medicine Network

Re: Eyelash Loss

Posted by Mel on 03/22/03 at 02:01 AM

Oh man...and here I thought I was the only one out there dealing with this issue!! For years and years I had thick, daark, gorgeous long lashes. Up until a few years ago that is. They suddenly became thin and stubbly, actually breaking off and I wasn\'t wearing mascara at the time! Now they\'re just flat out patchy, it\'s awful. They start to grow back in, then in the process of putting on or taking off make-up, or even attempting to get a foreign object out of my eye, a bunch will just fall out! It\'s so depressing. I have gotten really good at disquising this problem, I have to say. When they do fall out and I am aware of it, I try and salvage them and use a dab of eyelash glue on then, and I just sort of spot them here and there throughout my thinning spots. Once you add liner and mascara it all blends pretty well and no one would ever know. However, it is a little more difficult to get by with this on the lower lids, in my opinion. Still, it would be nice not to have to worry about this...if they would simply grow back and STAY there instead of breaking off and falling out. I do have fibromyalgia, and I suspect that along with stress is the culpret. But it may just be my dumb luck. :-\\