My hair was essentially healthy from 2003-2006.
Then, in 2006, I got a weave, and a combination of the stylist tying the thread too tight and damaging/tangling my hair, to my hair matting up upon take out of the weave...
I ended up with a huge head of dreadlocks.
My full head of hair matted up into one big clump. (no. I am not exaggerating or joking)
I took my head to a local hairstylist who dealt in dreadlocks who said that to unclump my hair, it would cost 200 dollars...
I took my head to local BSS's to buy products and have the people there look at it,and countless others who tried to break up the clumps in my hair.
What I ended up was with 2 bald spots where people had ripped out my hair.
I cried, and when my mother found out she offered to comb out my hair just like when I was little...
It took her 9 hours, but she got all the dreads out one by one.
From then, I put my hair in singular braids...big plaits actually, and moisturized with a thick leave in conditioner twice a day.
I washed every two days, and on special occasions I put on a wig. I used alot of Wild Growth oil... (no MT at that point) and I didn't texturize my hair for 10 months to give it a rest.
With all of that care and treatment, The new stylist, upon doing my hair for my next texturizer did not even know that I had bald spots- they had completely grown back in ... and my hair was as thick and healthy as ever...
It took alot of work though... and patience.
The pic is of my hair two years ago, right after that texturizer treatment.. not a bald spot in sight!