Getting used to "new normal"

srwruns
srwruns Member Posts: 343
edited March 2014 in Ovarian Cancer #1
chemo has started...I still have my hair, however I have always used high end hair products because my hair is very fine and thin and my big hope was always if I used the best product my hair would...well be more what I wanted it to be like (never really happened). As I was in the shower yesterday (my first day for chemo) and I was shampooing and conditioning "with only the best" I suddenly flashed: why in hell am I wasting these high end products NOW! So after yesterday I have stored the good stuff and started using the stuff everyone else uses in my house...whatever was on sale.

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  • nancy591
    nancy591 Member Posts: 1,027 Member
    #2
    hair
    Thanks for the chuckle. I always bought fancy hair products too. I also had a whole array of styling irons. Is this your first treatment? Carbo/taxol? Most of my hair fell out before my 2nd infusion. Once the hair fell out I also stored away my hairspay, mousse and various hair poducts. I gave away most of my styling irons though. Pity, 'cause now, 2yrs later I'd use 'em.

    Good luck!!!
  • lindaprocopio
    lindaprocopio Member Posts: 1,980 Member
    #3
    nancy591 said:

    hair
    Thanks for the chuckle. I always bought fancy hair products too. I also had a whole array of styling irons. Is this your first treatment? Carbo/taxol? Most of my hair fell out before my 2nd infusion. Once the hair fell out I also stored away my hairspay, mousse and various hair poducts. I gave away most of my styling irons though. Pity, 'cause now, 2yrs later I'd use 'em.

    Good luck!!!

    An idea to try BEFORE your hair falls out.
    Someone posted once on the uterine cancer board that tight before they started carbo/taxol, they had their hair braided all over in fine little braids, fastened at the the bottom with gum bands and also with a gum band 1" away from the scalp on each braid. This clever woman did her 1st chemo and shortly before her 2nd chemo infusion, when her hair started loosening seriously from the scalp, she clipped all of the little braids right above the top gum band. Then she sewed all of those little braids to the edges of a wig/hat liner and took that to a beautician who loosened the braids and cut and styled them. She created her own HALO of her OWN hair to wear under her hats!! I thought that was so clever. Of course by the time she did that I was already bald, and my hair has never had a chance to grow out to a length long enough to duplicate her trick. But it was such a good idea that I thought I'd post it here and see if you're tempted tpo give it a whirl.

    Your funny post reminded me of shopping with my husband and him asking "Do we need to get shampoo??" As if I would know! HA!
  • srwruns
    srwruns Member Posts: 343
    #4
    Oh great idea about saving
    Oh great idea about saving some hair to make halo for under hats I guess. I still have time to do that and its long enough. Thanks again. Lots to learn on this journey. All you (didn't volunteer) trailblazers have helped me so much!
  • Christine B.
    Christine B. Member Posts: 137
    #5
    My Real Hair is Silvery White!
    About 23 days after my first chemo, my hair started to fall out in handfuls. I like you spent a lot of money on hair products and the salon too. Seems I have my Father's genes for premature gray, he had the most handsome head of wavy, silvery hair which he said began in his 20's. I am now 54 and saw my first gray hair in the rear view mirror as I was driving down to San Diego to enroll on college when I was 19. When my hair started falling out, I asked my neighbor and hairdresser to shave it off for me. She left it in a 1/8 buzz cut and we said I'd shave it completely when I got patches of complete baldness. Now it is soft white and seems to have stopped falling out. I have my third chemo on Tues., and I'm waiting to see what happens. I kidded with my husband that when this is all over, and my hair grows back silvery white, people will say that chemo sure must have taken its toll, it turned my hair from blond to white ;-)
    Chris

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