Sooo today, I was getting ready for school, just minding my own business when boom it hit me....Staring in the mirror looking at my hairline I started to notice that I can see MUCH more of my scalp in between hairs than I remember. freaking out a little I started parting my hair and combing and seeing how much of my scalp i could see here and there....And what do you know...I DO have thinner hair. But wait! This can't be! I HAVENT EVEN HAD SURGERY OR LOST THE FIRST POUND YET! What is horrible about it, is I have actually lost my hair twice before ( I am a hair stylist, It is what we do LOL) But for some reason watching it go over time like I might have to, DOES make me a little sad. So when I got home I started googling, and behold maybe an answer? I have hypothyroidism, which APPARENTLY cause hairloss but I havent been taking my meds = [. My pcp is being a bitch and wont write me another script for my meds until I come in again (I dont have insurance)...WELL I am 10 days from surgery too... I WAS planning a visit for about a month after surgery but at this rate I feel like I might be bald by then. I am actually a little scared! I havent been scared this WHOLE time about any of it.. Only excited, but now I am feeling just blahhh = [

Sorry this post is not really about anything...I am just freaking out a little

I am relatively recently obese, and have found that healthcare professionals have a whole different attitude toward me.....it's really sad.

Wow guys. I know this is the reality of health care in the US if you don't have insurance, but it's mad. I feel so sorry for those without insurance, it's just not fair. I also realise that the NHS here in the UK is not perfect, far from perfect in fact, but it's crazy to think that you have to do this to get treated for an obvious condition and that they demand payment. It's an eye-opener for sure and not one I woud want to battle. I hope Obama changes this system, if you need meds you should get them, no matter the cost. Good luck getting the meds Tiffany, I would do exactly the same as you.

LOL @ Tiffykins, I feel like this sometimes.

Michelle x

I have loved ones who have lived in Canada and the UK, and I have to say that anyone who says that "we have the best health care system in the world" here in the US is full of it. We have a lot of great docs, and we have access to all the most wonderful and expensive machines and devices. But for most "average people" who have to just put up with whatever their crummy insurance will provide for them, the situation is far from perfect.

My sister recently moved from Oregon to London and she RAVES about how great the NHS is.

Note: I don't mean to imply that our individual practitioners here in the US are unskilled -- far from it. But our system is broken, very very broken. It's sad that we should be relieved when we find someone who is willing to treat us like a human being and actually listen to our concerns, but that's how it rolls here -- in a system that's driven purely by profits, the patients have become, to many people, simply a commodity at best, and a nuisance at worst. The fact that we have real lives, real fears, and real questions never seems to factor into the equation.

If you got the impression that our broken, inhumane health care system here in the States makes me hopping mad, you're right. First in the world in costs, 37th in the world in patient outcome.

I'll shut up now because this is verging on politics (which is one of those conversational black holes).

Tiffany!!!!! you go in 6 days!!!!!!!! Holy cow!!!!!!!

I FREAKIN KNOW!!!!! I am like...pissing my pants excited = D

Right behind you sister!!!