update on hair
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Sorry, I'm still in the middle of chemo with the "turtle wax" look. But, my hairdresser shaved my head, but didn't "bic" it because of the chance of nicking me. So, I had irregular stubble that seems to be falling out in slowly---not all in the same place. Maybe that's how it grows back??
As for the white, it could change as it grows in. I figure something on top beats nothing!
Good luck and keep us posted. I like to hear the positive things happening at the end of all this "stuff".0 -
Hi, Ohilly.
I am a true girly girl, and my hair started growing back during my last chemo session. Now what was to be 4 treatments with 3 weeks in between, was once a week at a lower dose for 12 weeks, and I had Taxol. My hair used to be a dark blonde, and that's because I always colored it. My hairstylist told me that my hair was about 75% white. But it started growing back a snow white. All snow white. I had a lot of difficulties with my adult daughter so I assumed the extra 25% of white was due to my problems with her. My hair is thicker on my sides and back, and is growing slowly on top. I tell everyone that if this was Halloween I could go as **** Cheney or John McCann. Really. It did take a little longer for the hair on my legs to start growing back, and that was great! Since I'm normally very pale, and more so since my treatments, I bought a Roux rinse (found in drug stores, Walmart, Kmart, and some grocery stores), and I feel a little better. Don't worry once everything starts growing it will keep growing. I should mention that the hair on my head did grow back curly, but I understand it doesn't stay that way.
If you were not expecting a color change, it could be the chemicals in the chemo treatment. That's just a guess.
Congratulations on your last chemo treatment. (Assuming from your message, it was)
The best to you!
Gale0 -
Ohilly: My hair came in totally white in the front and top and salt and pepper in the back. It will come in be patient. I also have to tell you that when it first came in it was totally curly. Now, 8 months after my last infusion, it is fuller and wavier then before chemo and totally white. I now color it and it looks better. Love, Lili0
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Mine started white, patchy, and baby-fine. It has gotten thicker as it got longer. I trimmed it whith an electric trimmer so that it would come in evenly. Now it is about 1/2 inch all over and about the color and texture it was before, about 3 months after last chemo. I still wear hats, but I have decided part of the "new me" will be a "hat person".
Have patience, your body will do what it is supposed to in its own time. seof0 -
mine grew back quite white at first and then more salt and pepper. I then colored it once I had about 2 inches. My eyebrows and eyelashes grew in slower. The hair on my legs still does not grow like it used to and its been over a year since I finished chemo. Be patient and it will happen. My hair grew in very curly and I eventually ended up keeping some of the curl. I really like it. Take care. E0
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I did 8 rounds of taxotere also and my hair came back white and curly. It came in on the sides and back much faster then on the top. I was put on femara after the chemo and apparantly one of the side effects of femara besides a lot of pain is thinning hair, especially on the top. I don't color it since I am 61 and it was going white anyway. My last chemo was in Sept of 07 and I have cut my hair at least 6 times since then. Just give it some time.
Hugs, Linda0 -
Looks as if we all had the same experience with the hair growth~ white, curly, etc etc. Mine probably would have been white anyway~ but my natural hair color had not seen the light of day for YEARS! I was auburn at 20...so why not at 50? As soon as it was long enough to color, I was and am auburn again!
I too got the curls, which are now waves and body. I didn't get my eyebrows in as nicely as pre chemo--I did get a moustache. Go figure~ the signals to the body just got re-wired! My underarm hair did not come back in as much, and especially on the affected side. Thats a plus, as I am still numb under my arm, even 5 years after surgery and shaving would scare me. Can you imagine surviving cancer and bleeding to death from shaving my arm-pit??? Now THAT would be just soooo wrong!
Hugs,
Claudia0 -
One of the first things I did when I finished surgery was get an electric razor. It is rechargable, but only needs it about every 4 months or so. It protects you from the nicks and scratches that could cause lymphedema. The saleslady said she sold a lot of them to survivors for the same reason, not that we need to shave much on the "affected" side.chenheart said:Looks as if we all had the same experience with the hair growth~ white, curly, etc etc. Mine probably would have been white anyway~ but my natural hair color had not seen the light of day for YEARS! I was auburn at 20...so why not at 50? As soon as it was long enough to color, I was and am auburn again!
I too got the curls, which are now waves and body. I didn't get my eyebrows in as nicely as pre chemo--I did get a moustache. Go figure~ the signals to the body just got re-wired! My underarm hair did not come back in as much, and especially on the affected side. Thats a plus, as I am still numb under my arm, even 5 years after surgery and shaving would scare me. Can you imagine surviving cancer and bleeding to death from shaving my arm-pit??? Now THAT would be just soooo wrong!
Hugs,
Claudia0
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