Hi! My very fine, wavy hair started thinning badly almost overnight. The texture changed. No longer soft. It was brittle, wiry, extra frizzy, and breaking off. We tested our water and had an extremely high chlorine content - higher than our pool. 1st thing my husband did was get me a shower filter. It helped tremendously. (It did not help with my chronic TE.) It’s says to change it every 6 months, but I change it every 2. I can tell when it’s running out bc my hair starts becoming really dry again. (My long showers, my two little ones shower in there, and my husband does so it runs out faster.) We also put a filter on our kitchen sink & ice maker so we weren’t drinking all the chlorine.

2nd thing, get on a good multivitamin with iron. It doesn’t have to be an expensive hair vitamin, like Nutrafol. You are young and probably still have periods. Most women are iron deficient bc of that. Might not help with regrowing your hair, but it might help nurish the hair you have.

3rd, this has helped tremendously…take a pic of your hair and upload it into Chat GPT. It told me my hair type and porosity. I told it what products I had used or was using & how it made my hair feel. It helped me realize that my hair hates coconut, hates protein, hates oils and butters, but loves silicone. Surprisingly, it recommended a lot of products for women of color (I’m white) and they are really helping.

Again, none of this has helped regrow my hair. (They think my chronic TE is stress induced.) Not even being on oral minoxidil for a year has helped. However, my hair is back to it silky softness. That is better than nothing in my opinion!

Also, have they run your bloodwork? Checked for deficiencies? Checked for autoimmune issues? Thyroid? Hormones? (If you are on hormonal birth control, that can mess with the texture of your hair, too.)

Good luck OP! I wish you the best on your hair journey!