How Long Does Hair Take To Grow Like It Did Before?

Many trichsters ask the question ‘how long does hair take to grow?’ While this differs from person to person, you can have a look at my blog post on hair regrowth for some idea. This post is going to answer the question ‘how long does hair take to grow like it did before?’ i.e. to a state that your hair looks healthy, how it might have looked when you were younger.

How Long Does Hair Take To Grow Back Healthily?

Whilst it is possible that your hair may never grow back, usually, with time, you can expect a large amount of regrowth. But when this happens, the hair is rarely the same. It takes time for your hair to recover, for one main reason:

• When you consistently pull your hair from your scalp, the follicles that have been pulled will become damaged. They take a few months to recover before they are able to produce new hairs, but the damage means that hair will often grow wavy and kinky – a different texture to the way your hair may have been in the past.
• This change of texture can also be seen in the case of eyelashes and eyebrows, though the regrowth is usually a lot quicker.

How To Avoid These Problems?

Evetually your follicles do start to repair themselves, but only if left alone for a while – easier said than done in the case of hair pulling! But if you do manage to leave them alone, trimming the ends of newly grown-in hair can help it to recover its normal texture quicker.

However, you also need to remember that our bodies all change with age. Even in the case of those who have never pulled their hair, the texture will often become more coarse than it was when we were younger. What this really means is that we need to accept change as part of life. In the case of hair regrowth after trichotillomania, we can also be proud in the fact that so much has come back.

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