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I wore a wig to my daughter's graduation last Saturday and I need to talk about it because I'm losing my mind pretending everything is fine. ‎ She graduated from nursing school. I should have been the proudest woman in that building. Instead I spent 2 hours adjusting my wig in the bathroom and calculating which angle to stand at for the photos. ‎ I bought it 7 months ago from a place that mostly sells to women going through chemo. The woman who helped me pick it out asked what I was being treated for. I said just GLP-1 hair loss. She didn't push it. I think she could tell. ‎ My daughter knows I wear it. We don't talk about it. She's seen my real hair. She has seen me without the wig at home in the morning before I put it on. ‎ When she hugged me in the lobby she said "Mom you look beautiful." She touched the hair near my shoulder. We both knew it was my wig, not my real hair and neither of us said anything. ‎ My husband knows too. At the ceremony he leaned over and put his hand on my back. He didn't touch my hair. He used to touch my hair all the time. He stopped around the same time I started wearing the wig. ‎ After the ceremony we took photos outside. My daughter on one side. My mother on the other and my husband behind us. ‎ So everyone knows, we just all pretend. ‎ I smiled for the photo. I tilted my head slightly to the left because I've learned that angle hides where the wig meets my forehead. ‎ I look fine in the photo, I look like a normal woman at her daughter's graduation. ‎ Except I'm wearing a wig that cost $340 and everyone in that photo knows it and no one will ever say it out loud and the silence is somehow worse than if they just said something. ‎ I need to explain how I got here because I think there are a lot of women headed to the same place and I don't want them to end up in a wig shop being asked what they're being treated for. ‎ I started Mounjaro in March 2025. Prediabetic. Family history of insulin. Lost 61 pounds in 7 months. ‎ Everything my doctor wanted to see went in the right direction. I felt like a different person. ‎ Around month 4 the shedding started. If you're reading this you already know what that means so I won't describe it. You know the drain. You know the brush. You know the ponytail. ‎ I tried everything. Biotin. Collagen. Nutrafol at $90 a month for 3 months. Rosemary oil that did nothing. The only thing I didn't try was minoxidil because I kept reading online that some women grew a small mustache because of it. ‎ Over $600 total on products that made zero difference. ‎ My doctor said eat more protein and wait. I waited 4 months and it only got worse every single month. ‎ I thought about quitting the medication. I really did. But my doctor told me I was a year away from insulin if I stopped. My mother went on insulin at 52. My sister at 39. I couldn't quit even if I wanted to. ‎ So I made a deal with myself. I would keep taking Mounjaro and I would buy a wig. That was my compromise. ‎ At first I told myself the wig was temporary. Just until my hair recovered on its own like my doctor said it would. 5 months later and still can't leave the house without it. ‎ I lost 61 pounds. My A1C is down. My blood pressure is normal. Every number my doctor cares about is good. ‎ And underneath the wig my real hair is the thinnest it's ever been. ‎ I lost the weight and I'm wearing a wig to my daughter's graduation. That's what winning looks like apparently. ‎ 5 months ago a friend sent me a link. No message, just a link. ‎ It was a post in a GLP-1 group from a woman who went through the same thing. She explained something that made me sit down on my kitchen floor. ‎ When you lose fat rapidly on a GLP-1, you don't just lose weight. Your fat cells produce estrogen, and that estrogen is what shields your hair follicles from a hormone called DHT. ‎ When the fat goes, that shield drops. And DHT starts attacking your follicles directly. Shrinking them. Choking them off. ‎ That's why nothing I tried worked. Biotin doesn't block DHT. Collagen doesn't block DHT. Nutrafol doesn't block DHT. I spent 10 months feeding follicles that were under attack. ‎ She said she found a gummy called BalmBare that was made for women on GLP-1. It contains Pumpkin Seed Oil and Saw Palmetto at clinical doses. ‎ Pumpkin Seed Oil blocks the enzyme that creates new DHT. Saw Palmetto blocks existing DHT from attaching to your follicles. ‎ One stops DHT production. The other guards the door. ‎ Her shedding stopped in 6 weeks. By month 3 she had baby hairs along her hairline. ‎ I did the math sitting on that kitchen floor. 10 months on Mounjaro. $600 in supplements that don't block DHT. $340 on a wig. My entire family pretending they don't notice. ‎ I ordered them that night, I had nothing left to lose at this point. ‎ That was 5 months ago. ‎ The first 4 weeks I noticed a bit less shedding. ‎ Around month 2 my brush looked the cleanest it had in over a year. ‎ I went to see my hairdresser in month 3 and she complimented me on all the baby hairs growing along my hairline. ‎ Last Tuesday I dropped my daughter off at her new job. She looked at me when she got out of the car and didn't say anything for a second. Then she said "Mom. Your real hair looks beautiful." ‎ We laughed. 🤣 ‎ That was the first time either of us acknowledged the wig out loud. But we both knew what she meant. ‎ My husband touched my hair last night, he reached over on the couch and ran his hand over the back of my head like he always used to do. ‎ I don't think he knows how much that meant to me. ‎ If you're losing your hair on a GLP-1 and you've tried everything and nothing works, it's not you. It's because nothing you tried blocks DHT. And until you block it, your follicles can't recover. ‎ I'm still on Mounjaro. I'm still losing weight. And I got my real hair back. ‎ — Sandra L. ‎ Try BalmBare Hair Revive Gummies Risk-Free Today ⭐ 4.6 Stars on Trustpilot | 55,000+ Women