RE: To hair or not to hair

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once you finish chemo, how long does it take for your hair to start growing again? Also, does it start out weak (which

mine came back in about six weeks after the last treatment, everyone may be a little different.

Mine was very white at first but then turned back black with a lot of body and curl-

two years out now and it is still more beautiful than ever before chemo. I love it!

Andree

www.essentialsoapsinc.com

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Good for you. I have a big smile just thinking about it. WOW would I have the nerve?? Not sure. I think one has to have a great sense of self to do that and I applaud you loudly!! I would give the world to be a confident person in my looks.

Did you lose your eyebrows and lashes too?

Trisha

-- To hair or not to hair

Trish wrote

One question here.... Do most of you wear your wigs or the hats most? I would welcome a discussion on what you do. Have you ever gone public with no hair?

Trish,

I went with scarves and baseball caps, some hats. Bought a wig but it was uncomfortable to me. Toward the end, I just went bald headed. Got tons of compliments on the "beautiful shape" of my head - really. I always wore fancy dangle earrings so not too many people called me sir.

June wrote

But seriously consider having your head either cut very close to the scalp or shaved shortly after the first chemo. You'll take it into your own power and save yourself a lot of grief.

I woke up one morning and had to clean hair off of my pillow. It was after my 1st chemo. I called my nephew who shaves my head and we went to work with the shaver.

Deborah aka

Deborah Page

deborah_ann_page@...

"A woman is like a teabag; you don't know how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

Eleanor Roosevelt

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I'm with Trisha on this one. ;-D

LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/

-----Original Message-----From: breastcancer2 [mailto:breastcancer2 ]On Behalf Of TrishaSent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 3:40 PMTo: breastcancer2 Subject: Re: To hair or not to hair

Good for you. I have a big smile just thinking about it. WOW would I have the nerve?? Not sure. I think one has to have a great sense of self to do that and I applaud you loudly!! I would give the world to be a confident person in my looks.

Did you lose your eyebrows and lashes too?

Trisha

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Trish wrote

One question here.... Do most of you wear your wigs or the hats most? I would welcome a discussion on what you do. Have you ever gone public with no hair?

[Guest guest]

Hello, I have an additional question on all the hair loss thing. I had

my first A/C round eight days ago and I plan on shaving my hair

tomorrow, before it starts to fall out. I will be doing A/C for 4

rounds, then 4 more of taxol. I have not totally ruled out the wig

possibility but feel much more inclined to do the hat / scarf thing

(particularly since I found this site with awesome ways to tie your

scarf: http://www.tznius.com/cgi-bin/tying.pl

The site is intended for modest Jewish women who cover their hair for religious reasons and this is

certainly not me, but I am just interested in the scarf tying

techniques).

Anyway, my question is: once you finish chemo, how long does it take

for your hair to start growing again? Also, does it start out weak

(which would probably mean shaving it a couple more times to get it

growing strong) or once it starts growing it is already healthy and

good-looking?

Thank you! And enjoy the rest of the day...

Iza in land

[Guest guest]

Trish,

In the context of chemo, hair is hair. ALL hair, if you get my drift....

Deb

Deborah aka

Deborah Page

deborah_ann_page@...

"A woman is like a teabag; you don't know how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

Eleanor Roosevelt

To hair or not to hair

Trish wrote

One question here.... Do most of you wear your wigs or the hats most? I would welcome a discussion on what you do. Have you ever gone public with no hair?

Trish,

I went with scarves and baseball caps, some hats. Bought a wig but it was uncomfortable to me. Toward the end, I just went bald headed. Got tons of compliments on the "beautiful shape" of my head - really. I always wore fancy dangle earrings so not too many people called me sir.

June wrote

But seriously consider having your head either cut very close to the scalp or shaved shortly after the first chemo. You'll take it into your own power and save yourself a lot of grief.

I woke up one morning and had to clean hair off of my pillow. It was after my 1st chemo. I called my nephew who shaves my head and we went to work with the shaver.

Deborah aka

Deborah Page

deborah_ann_page@...

"A woman is like a teabag; you don't know how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

Eleanor Roosevelt

[Guest guest]

Iza,

You hair comes back different, but not necessarily worse. I finished F/A/C in May. By July I was fuzzy. Had my first hair cut (trim) in a year in December. That is because I am keeping it very short - may be 2" long. I would never have had the courage to cut it this short, but everyone tells me it is the best I've looked in years. I had kept color on my hair to hide a head full of grey, and the baldness took care of that. My hair came back a great silver grey with some black left in, which is what it would have been if I hadn't colored it. It also came back curly, so all I have to do is give it a little squench in the AM and I'm good to go.

So look at about 6 months after you finish, depending on how fast your hair grows and how much chemo you had. My chemo was pretty drastic follicle killing stuff.

Deborah aka

Deborah Page

deborah_ann_page@...

"A woman is like a teabag; you don't know how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Re: To hair or not to hairHello, I have an additional question on all the hair loss thing. I had my first A/C round eight days ago and I plan on shaving my hair tomorrow, before it starts to fall out. I will be doing A/C for 4 rounds, then 4 more of taxol. I have not totally ruled out the wig possibility but feel much more inclined to do the hat / scarf thing (particularly since I found this site with awesome ways to tie your scarf: http://www.tznius.com/cgi-bin/tying.plThe site is intended for modest Jewish women who cover their hair for religious reasons and this is certainly not me, but I am just interested in the scarf tying techniques). Anyway, my question is:

once you finish chemo, how long does it take for your hair to start growing again? Also, does it start out weak (which would probably mean shaving it a couple more times to get it growing strong) or once it starts growing it is already healthy and good-looking?Thank you! And enjoy the rest of the day...Iza in land

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Me thinks me do.. Lmao

Trisha

-- Re: To hair or not to hair

Trish,

In the context of chemo, hair is hair. ALL hair, if you get my drift....

Deb

Deborah aka

Deborah Page

deborah_ann_page@...

"A woman is like a teabag; you don't know how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

Eleanor Roosevelt

To hair or not to hair

Trish wrote

One question here.... Do most of you wear your wigs or the hats most? I would welcome a discussion on what you do. Have you ever gone public with no hair?

Trish,

I went with scarves and baseball caps, some hats. Bought a wig but it was uncomfortable to me. Toward the end, I just went bald headed. Got tons of compliments on the "beautiful shape" of my head - really. I always wore fancy dangle earrings so not too many people called me sir.

June wrote

But seriously consider having your head either cut very close to the scalp or shaved shortly after the first chemo. You'll take it into your own power and save yourself a lot of grief.

I woke up one morning and had to clean hair off of my pillow. It was after my 1st chemo. I called my nephew who shaves my head and we went to work with the shaver.

Deborah aka

Deborah Page

deborah_ann_page@...

"A woman is like a teabag; you don't know how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

Eleanor Roosevelt

[Guest guest]

One more word on hair. All during chemo, my nose dripped unmercifully. I had to have tissues constantly. Didn't realize until a patient told me, you loose the hair in your nose also, so nothing catches the drip, drip, drip. Scarves and hankies??

Deborah aka

Deborah Page

deborah_ann_page@...

"A woman is like a teabag; you don't know how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

Eleanor Roosevelt

To hair or not to hair

Trish wrote

One question here.... Do most of you wear your wigs or the hats most? I would welcome a discussion on what you do. Have you ever gone public with no hair?

Trish,

I went with scarves and baseball caps, some hats. Bought a wig but it was uncomfortable to me. Toward the end, I just went bald headed. Got tons of compliments on the "beautiful shape" of my head - really. I always wore fancy dangle earrings so not too many people called me sir.

June wrote

But seriously consider having your head either cut very close to the scalp or shaved shortly after the first chemo. You'll take it into your own power and save yourself a lot of grief.

I woke up one morning and had to clean hair off of my pillow. It was after my 1st chemo. I called my nephew who shaves my head and we went to work with the shaver.

Deborah aka

Deborah Page

deborah_ann_page@...

"A woman is like a teabag; you don't know how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

Eleanor Roosevelt

[Guest guest]

Iza, everyone is different and have different experiences. Most women say their hair started growing in within a month and it came back curly, some say straighter then before, most say gray but some say with some color. Some say their hair came back thicker, some say thinner. My last treatment will/should be in April so I won't know until May or June.

LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/

-----Original Message-----From: breastcancer2 [mailto:breastcancer2 ]On Behalf Of Izaskun Fuentes MilaniSent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 3:49 PMTo: breastcancer2 Subject: Re: To hair or not to hairHello, I have an additional question on all the hair loss thing. I had my first A/C round eight days ago and I plan on shaving my hair tomorrow, before it starts to fall out. I will be doing A/C for 4 rounds, then 4 more of taxol. I have not totally ruled out the wig possibility but feel much more inclined to do the hat / scarf thing (particularly since I found this site with awesome ways to tie your scarf: http://www.tznius.com/cgi-bin/tying.plThe site is intended for modest Jewish women who cover their hair for religious reasons and this is certainly not me, but I am just interested in the scarf tying techniques). Anyway, my question is: once you finish chemo, how long does it take for your hair to start growing again? Also, does it start out weak (which would probably mean shaving it a couple more times to get it growing strong) or once it starts growing it is already healthy and good-looking?Thank you! And enjoy the rest of the day...Iza in land

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Oh my gosh, I haven't had this problem but I never thought about that. How funny, strange funny not haha funny. I still have eyebrows and eyelashes, very thin but enough so I don't feel self conscious. I've never had very hairy legs or underarms. But my nose hasn't been runny, not more than usual anyway.

LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/

-----Original Message-----From: breastcancer2 [mailto:breastcancer2 ]On Behalf Of Deborah PageSent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 5:19 PMTo: breastcancer2 Subject: Re: To hair or not to hair

One more word on hair. All during chemo, my nose dripped unmercifully. I had to have tissues constantly. Didn't realize until a patient told me, you loose the hair in your nose also, so nothing catches the drip, drip, drip. Scarves and hankies??

Deborah aka

Deborah Page

deborah_ann_page@...

Eleanor Roosevelt

To hair or not to hair

Trish wrote

One question here.... Do most of you wear your wigs or the hats most? I would welcome a discussion on what you do. Have you ever gone public with no hair?

Trish,

I went with scarves and baseball caps, some hats. Bought a wig but it was uncomfortable to me. Toward the end, I just went bald headed. Got tons of compliments on the "beautiful shape" of my head - really. I always wore fancy dangle earrings so not too many people called me sir.

June wrote

But seriously consider having your head either cut very close to the scalp or shaved shortly after the first chemo. You'll take it into your own power and save yourself a lot of grief.

I woke up one morning and had to clean hair off of my pillow. It was after my 1st chemo. I called my nephew who shaves my head and we went to work with the shaver.

Deborah aka

Deborah Page

deborah_ann_page@...

"A woman is like a teabag; you don't know how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

Eleanor Roosevelt

[Guest guest]

I had straight hair and had it shaved off after the first chemo treatment...my hair started coming back almost a year...it came in darker brown...and was curly and then wavey and now almost straight...and almost a thick as before ...just a little thiner not much.. it was almost April 2003 when it started to come back because I had chemo and radiation...finished radiation on Valentines Day 2003... Betsy (NC) Note: forwarded message attached.

Iza, everyone is different and have different experiences. Most women say their hair started growing in within a month and it came back curly, some say straighter then before, most say gray but some say with some color. Some say their hair came back thicker, some say thinner. My last treatment will/should be in April so I won't know until May or June.

LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/

-----Original Message-----From: breastcancer2 [mailto:breastcancer2 ]On Behalf Of Izaskun Fuentes MilaniSent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 3:49 PMTo: breastcancer2 Subject: Re: To hair or not to hairHello, I have an additional question on all the hair loss thing. I had my first A/C round eight days ago and I plan on shaving my hair tomorrow, before it starts to fall out. I will be doing A/C for 4 rounds, then 4 more of taxol. I have not totally ruled out the wig possibility but feel much more inclined to do the hat / scarf thing (particularly since I found this site with awesome ways to tie your scarf: http://www.tznius.com/cgi-bin/tying.plThe site is intended for modest Jewish women who cover their hair for religious reasons and this is certainly not me, but I am just interested in the scarf tying techniques). Anyway, my question is: once you finish chemo, how long does it take for your hair to start growing again? Also, does it start out weak (which would probably mean shaving it a couple more times to get it growing strong) or once it starts growing it is already healthy and good-looking?Thank you! And enjoy the rest of the day...Iza in land

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Iza in land wrote:

>

> Anyway, my question is: once you finish chemo, how long does it take for

> your hair to start growing again? Also, does it start out weak (which

would

> probably mean shaving it a couple more times to get it growing strong) or

> once it starts growing it is already healthy and good-looking?

>

I had Taxol in September, October and November last year. My hair began

falling out about three weeks into the Taxol, and was all out including

face, underarms, and everywhere else, in the next couple of weeks. It

looked really messy until DD2 clipped it nice and short. My scalp was

tender at that stage - baseball caps are far too scratchy.

In spite of continuing chemo (not Taxol now) there was a faint hint of

returning hair at the middle of December, and now it's about 1.5 cms long -

still very flat to my head, but dark so it shows. It's growing fine but

strong - I wouldn't think I need to shave it again. I quite like it like

this, but my head gets too cold so I still wear a hat for warmth.

I have taken my hat off in public a few times, when I have felt overheated

in the supermarket - nobody looked twice and it felt quite normal.

Love,

Margery.

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margery@... in North Herts, UK

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About eyelashes - I had a picture in my mind of Sinead O'Connor the singer -

shaved head and lovely face - huge eyes - and I thought, well, I'll wear

makeup ...

Wrong! I couldn't find anywhere to put the mascara! LOL! So the world

just has to take me bald and barefaced; not my problem. <G>

Love,

Margery.

PS sorry my posts are a bit out of step; I get the messages as a digest and

catch up on a bunch at a time.

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margery@... in North Herts, UK

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