Not to threadjack, but can sitting in the color chair too long make your hair fall out? I've been having my hair done at a salon for a couple of years and I generally love the work the stylist does on me. This last time, though, about a month ago, she got busy with another client while I was in the timer segment of the color job. I was just sitting and waiting for 25 minutes for the timer to go off. Meanwhile, this young guy walks in and she takes him, I guess thinking it would be a quick trim, but the guy was pretty demanding, I ended up sitting in the color for almost 45 minutes, and I'm not exaggerating.

It looked great when she finished with me, but a few days later I started losing my hair by the handfuls. Not in patches, just large numbers of strands falling out, some in small clumps, but nothing that has left a bald patch.

Now, it could be just a coincidental hormone change, or some kind of reset after that big surgery thing in November. But I'm wondering if it's not having had the chemicals on my head for so long. What do you all think? Anyone had any experience with hair falling out?

I called my doctor. He thinks it may be stress, but he's also setting me up with a hormone specialist.

Meanwhile, my hair has literally lost over half its volume in the last three weeks.

Roxy