Chemo ?

braelee2
braelee2 Member Posts: 130
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
start chemo in october. (5 Fluorouracil,oxaliplatin,leucovorin)I was really woundering in anyone is one this type and If they lost their hair or not. I am just woundering if I need to go get a wig now or if I should just wait.

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  • geotina
    geotina Member Posts: 2,111 Member
    #2
    Folfox:
    Sounds like you will be on the Folfox combo. That is the same combo my hubby was on. He also had 5FU. You won't lose you hair, at least most don't, so don't spend money on a wig just yet.

    George continued to work full time while on this combo. It affects everyone different. Fatigue was his biggest enemy.

    Take care and welcome to the club we wish you didn't have to join. Go ahead and ask anything on you mind and someone will come on with their experience.

    Take care - Tina
  • AnneCan
    AnneCan Member Posts: 3,673 Member
    #3
    Braelee2
    Welcome. I don't think most people lose hair on folfox (5-FU, oxiplatin, leucovorin). If I were you I would wait to buy the wig, unless you really want one. Take good care.
  • taraHK
    taraHK Member Posts: 1,952 Member
    #4
    thinning but not loss
    Hi. I've been on this "cocktail" myself. I had hair thinning but didn't loose all my hair. I got a wig "just in case" but never used it.

    Best of luck to you

    Tara
  • braelee2
    braelee2 Member Posts: 130
    #5
    AnneCan said:

    Braelee2
    Welcome. I don't think most people lose hair on folfox (5-FU, oxiplatin, leucovorin). If I were you I would wait to buy the wig, unless you really want one. Take good care.

    Thanks I feel a little
    Thanks I feel a little better now...
  • abrub
    abrub Member Posts: 2,174 Member
    #6
    I didn't lose my hair
    at least not the hair on my head,tho it changed from curly to very straight. No one in my family has EVER had straight hair! However, I lost much of my body hair, eyebrows down... All has come back to "normal", tho it took about 2 years for the curls to return.

    Hair loss is not a common side effect of this regimen.

    Good luck with this all.
    Alice
  • PhillieG
    PhillieG Member Posts: 4,866 Member
    #7
    Hair today...
    hair tomorrow...
    I also had thinning but never lost it. My hair that is
    ;-)
    Think positive and think hair!
    -phil
  • sasjourney
    sasjourney Member Posts: 395 Member
    #8
    Still have hair
    I have done 10 rounds of that chemo and did not lose my hair. It has thinned a lot and is more dry/frizzy but I still have enough to put in a ponytail. I kept it long so I could wear a ponytail and feel like I still had lots of hair.

    Take care,
    Sara

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