u/LankyVeterinarian908

As far as symptoms do you guys have relief when you're doing certain things but the minute like literally the minute you stop doing those things it pops back up like nothing ever happened? For example if I have something that's physically restricting my head like causing a headache like a bandana a wig a headband anything that has any type of anything on my head causes me a headache but the minute I take it off even though I know that if I take it off and I glue a wig on that doesn't have any tension it will stop, before I can even put the wig on my body triggers me to pull out all the hair that was bothering me before the wig regardless of how hard I try it's so much harder than any other trigger that I have in my life.

Oh ok .. me either ..😔

I don't necessarily want to share that I do this but I also feel okay sharing it because I've read several other posts about things that I don't do with my trich that most of you guys or some of you guys do with yours. With that being said I assume that there are people who do what I do. I hope. I hate to feel embarrassed about this. That's been happening my whole life is specially when I get caught before I can explain that I even have the disorder.

So a lot of times after I've had a good (definitely bad) episode I have a sore spot in my scalp near or exactly where I've been picking. So the only time sometimes that I can relieve that pain pressure or whatever it's called is to stab it with something usually a needle from a syringe because those needles are small but long or whatever I can find that sharp when I need it......

I will stab it let the blood run out it's usually a nice amount of blood not like a dot but like a lot....... I have to put something of a lighter color on it so I can see exactly how much came out but it relieves everything until you know four plus weeks later when it presents itself again. In between time I just pick the hair out of it and sometimes that's just enough but sometimes it's just a Band-Aid. Does anyone else have this issue? I don't want to feel weird and I really hope that somebody else does, but I'm also hoping that nobody else does because it's a wild sensation once I do it and it relieves the pain and all these things my brain is like girl this is very much so unsanitary ridiculous and you could be in a worser situation after but in the moment I can't think of it that way. Does anybody else do this or something else to relieve the sore spot after the trich causes them to do ridiculous stuff? If you don't it's cool because if you don't then I don't but if you do then I do.....