Trouble with hair

I've always had wild crazy hair. My Mom used to call it a Rats nest. It was always curly/wavy frizzy & big. Over the years I had trouble getting it to grow. Finally, in my 20's, my hair was long & healthy. Then I had my daughter in 2007 & my hair stopped growing a few years after I had her. I was diagnosed with fibro in 2015. My hair has been falling out for quite a few years. I'm not balding, but when I shower there is a lot of hair on the bottom of the tub or if I brush or comb my hair there is lots of hair on there. When I do laundry there are always red hairballs stuck on the clothes, sheets & towels. I took different types of hair vitamins & none of them helped. I saw a new functional medicine doctor in January & she said that half of my pituitary gland was dead (it possibly died when I was giving birth). She referred me to see an endocrinologist. She said that she would probably give me hormone patches & that would maybe help my hair & nails grow. In the meantime, they let go of the whole functional medicine dept because of corona, so that doctor is gone. I waited 6 months to see the endocrinologist & she never got the mri results, so she really couldn't give me any new info. She wants me to have an mri every January. Right now I feel stuck. I don't go for my yearly check-up until November. I want to talk to my doctor about a lot of things & see if she can get the mri to that doctor. I do have long hair, but it is stuck at a certain length. The ends get so dry & brittle that they feel like brillo. I have my hair trimmed every 5 or 6 months. Only a half inch. My hair is to the middle of my back shorter than it has been in a long time. The top of my hair is really oily. Even right after I let my hair air dry or blow dry it. It looks wet, greasy & stringy. I did hear that moisturizing products can leave your hair limp & oily. I've also heard that even if you straighten your hair you should use curly hair products. I've always wanted healthy long hair to my butt. It seems like it is never going to happen. I don't care if I'm 50 I want my hair longer. So I will keep trying things, but right now I'm just trying to get used to my hair being oily & frizzy.


This was from August of 2010. It was pretty long then.

This is from last weekend. You can see how much shorter it looks.