My Hair Was Pulled and Now My Hair Falls Out and My Scalp Burns!

I am a 30 year old female and I had an incident over a month ago when all my hair was violently yanked by my boyfriends 3 year old. I woke up the next morning and started losing hair. Since then my scalp has been burning so bad that I have thought about suicide. The hair fall out is very noticable and is all over the head. It hurts to go outside and I have also developed a white substance on my scalp, almost like a coating that I can scrape off with my nails. It’s gross and waxy. My head has a wierd, painful sensation and I literally can feel the hair detaching from my head. Sometimes I will just feel it fall and at other times I will have a sharp needle-like pain and the hair will fall out. I am so scared about what I have read on other sites.

What is this sensation/pain/burning and how do I stop the hair from falling out? Will my hair regrow or is this burning a sign that the follicles were damaged and I am doomed. I have always had a healthy, thick, beautiful head of hair that goes to the middle of my back. Now it’s falling out in handfuls. I have been to several doctors/derms and they said I’m fine or more accurately crazy for obsessing about it. No one is listening to me! Please help! Any advice? Thanks….

Okay, let’s stop and think about what you just wrote. You are thinking of suicide! Please seek the help of a professional who can help you with this issue. Either go see your psychiatrist/therapist or a physician than can assess your hair loss issue. If no doctors are listening to you, go find another doctor that will! This is obviously a very huge issue in your life right now, so don’t give up on solving it. Without an examination, there’s really not much more help I can provide over the internet, but I wish you good luck.

I can’t explain the intense burning you now feel, but the traumatic hair loss like you describe usually grows back in about one year. What is it that you read on various sites that has you so scared?