Anyone who's experienced hair loss will tell you, it hurts.
Not necessarily physically. Unless you count the knock to your self esteem that feels like a hard whack in the guts some days.
The first time I pulled what looked like a hair extension from my shower drain, I sobbed.
Thing is, changes in hair growth are near-inevitable.
My hair loss was an expected and completely common side effect to undergoing a major surgery.
Knowing that didn't make me feel any less sh*t, but hearing other people talking about their hair loss helped.
As trichologist (that's a hair doctor) Anabel Kingsley told us on Adore's Beauty IQ Uncensored podcast, hair is usually the first thing to go during periods of change.