The Genetic Link to Female Hair Loss - Sue's Story I do have a family history of hair loss on my dad’s side. He had three sisters and all three of them wore wigs for as long as I can ever remember. Never saw them without their wigs, but I knew that they had severe hair loss. I think my grandmother also did. She didn’t wear a wig but she was just one of those old ladies and that’s the only way I ever remember her. My cousin on my dad’s side has extremely thin hair, much more than I do, almost looking like a chemotherapy patient and she doesn’t do anything about it because I don’t think it bothers her. My sister has thick hair. My brother has thick hair and I was the one child in the family that got the thin hair from my dad’s side. Well, the advice that I would give other women is the advice that I got from a girlfriend of mine who, when I was complaining about my hair loss she said, “Well you have to go to my doctor, Dr. Leibsohn. He is the one that helps me,” and I never thought that she had a problem with hair loss because her hair looked great. So, I would say seek out a dermatologist and find, keep looking until you find somebody that has experienced working with women who have hair loss issues.