Hair Hair Hair - Another question

KatherineNaomi

I haven't experienced this myself but I was just looking at older posts in this thread today and there were a few woman with the same issue. Their hair came in nice and thick eventually and I'm sure yours will too.

westiemom

Thanks Kate. Will browse older postings.

nikola

dutchgirl6, I hope I would have so much hair in 8 weeks. You look nice. I cannot believe You are going without wig since October.

Resting

Hey dutchgirl - thx for the pics, looks good to me and about right for the time frame your in from Chemo. I think we all look a lot like you do at this point. And I agree the Tamox slowed my growth. I was a month after rads before I started it and my hair was really growing. Once I started Tamox it slowed significantly.

Westiemom, I had some of the same thing your talking about, the thinning in a few areas near my forehead. It did eventually fill in and yes more dense. I would use some of my brown mascara to touch it up just a little and you couldn't tell. Now I'm waiting for the crown to fill in more. I never could see it before but now it's a lot more noticeable also it's shorter.

kelben

I'm about 3 1/2 months out from chemo and I have close to 1/2 inch of grey hair coming in.  The question is...did anyone have their hair growing in a gazillion cowlicks???  It is growing from both sides toward the centre looking like I have a mohawk.  The middle is being pushed straight up!!  I can only imagine what it will look like when it gets longer.   I may have to shave it again and start over... plse tell me it ain't so.

Ann97

Westiemom: I'm having the same issue with the hair in front not growing as quickly as everywhere else. On another thread someone commented we are going to look like Caesar.

Carrol2: I had TC too and started noticing stubble 5 weeks post chemo. If you look at Kate's photos she posted a few weeks back, I look now like her week 7.5 photo and I'm 9 weeks past chemo.

Carrol2

Ann97 is that 5 weeks post the infusion or 5 weeks post the end of the final 3 weeks cycle? I am on day 22 now since my last infusion.

Resting

kelben,

     sound like my hair. I don't know about shaving it though and starting over. From all I have read you'll just have to repeat the same growth and it'll take longer. But I will tell you that my son who was 28 at the time shaved his hair when I did. I noticed that as his hair grew back he had this mo-hawk ( as you call it ) or cu-pi thing going on. I couldn't figure out why he would style his hair that way. He sent me pics every one in awhile and there it was again. Once mine began to grow out I found I had the same thing happening. So hang in there - it must happen a lot. He had no Chemo or rads of course and though his grew faster he still had to deal with the cowlicks.

Resting

Do any of you know how to insert a pic from -- say sutterfly? I've been trying to figure it out - not successful so far.

stlcardsfan

KELBEN - I am with you on the cowlicks or wings as I call them. Never got curls, just random chunks that stick up every which way. A lot of this on the back and sides of my head. Total is 8.5 months PFC for me.

Carrol2 - I have been counting since the day of the last treatment. Granted, not much happened the first 3 weeks as the Chemo was still in my body. At about 5 to 6 weeks I noticed some stubble on the very top of my head. In June when I went in for surgery, my whole head was covered with very short stubble. I went back to work in August wearing a baseball cap. In mid-Sept no more cap, and have been topless ever since. Hope this helps.

The hair on top of my head is growing faster than the sides and back. The front part by forehead is growing the slowest. My bangs are about 2 inches long. Not enough to cover my forehead, but well on there way. 

Ann97

Carrol2: It was 5 weeks past my last infusion. So if you were like me, you'd have 2 more weeks until you'd feel the stubble. Kate's came in quicker though so maybe sooner!    The only place on my body where hair continued to grow during chemo was on my legs - just very little. And that was where I first started feeling stubble - do you have stubble on your legs or anywhere else?

Resting

MaryNY

ECT: I think you mean Shutterfly? Anyway to link from there is not as obvious as with other image-hosting sites.

In Shutterfly right-click the picture, then choose Copy Image Location. Then switch to this message forum. Next click on the image button (looks like a tree) above the message window. Click in the Image/URL field and hit CTRL+V to paste. Hit Insert. 

ladym13

ECT- I use imageshack, just upload pics in there, copy the URL click the image button (tree) on here and paste the url in...should work, might have to change the dimensions depending on how big the pic is.

Carrol2

I don't have any stubble anywhere yet. I am watching it like watching a pot boil though.

ladym13

Carrol2- if you don't already use it, try the Nioxin shampoo and conditioner, I used it before, during chemo and still now...I really think it works...stimulates the hair follicles

Carrol2

ladym13 i bought that and just started using it today. I got the one that sayd noticeably thinning hair. it's system 2.

Resting

OK, this is my son's mo-hawk or cupi hair as I called it. Sure looks better on him than me but maybe this will encourage some of you that this effect seems to happen to a lot of people.

Thx for the help Melbell and Mary - I was making a lot harder than it was. But still have the image a bit big- couldn't fix that.

MaryNY

ECT: I would have thought your son's hair was styled that way. Looks great on him.

To resize an image, edit the message, then right-click the image, select Image Properties, then work on the dimensions. You could half both dimensions and see how that looks.

Resting

I love it Mary - he's got the right attitude!!!!

Here's a try on my pic, I'm not very good at this - took it w/ my camera phone. I tried to make changes in properties, need to work on it.

Anyway - there you have it. At least you get the idea of where my hair is -- doing it's own thing.

LtotheK

Oh my goodness, gang, I made the HUGE mistake of taking some photo booth photos of my head.  I have quite a bald spot smack in the middle of my head, and it's still really thin up top. Please, please tell me the bald spots fill in.  I am 15 weeks PFC, and crushed by how crappy my hair still is.

Also, the eyebrows.  Just looked at some old photos of eyebrows, wow.  Mine were nice.  Well, I have about 10 hairs on each side at this point.  Do they come back as good as they were before? Of course, all my other body hair went gangbusters.

This is such a hard core bummer.

ECT, your son has movie-star good looks.  I actually am dying for a faux hawk, I believe that's what I'm going to do.  Provided I ever get hair.  You have an awesome look going, it's very cool.  No one would ever suspect you have post-chemo hair, it looks like an edgy cut.  Kudos to your stylist.

Sorry to be such a whiner.  This has really irked me.

LtotheK

Totally silly question:  if I post images here, will they show up in a general search in the internet?  That's why I haven't done it so far.

Resting

MHP70 - I have no idea about the images showing up later, if they do we're all in trouble aren't we?

I'm not so convinced my hair is 'edgy and cool' but it sure is easy. And I don't guess we'll be satisfied until we have our hair back like we had it post Chemo. I'm anxious to put color on mine or do highlights but not brave enough to do it yet. I picked up a do-it-yourself kit in Walmart the other day and carried it through out the store while I shopped only to put it back just before I checked out. LOL

As for your bald spots, it maybe just slow growing, not really balding. I have that too on the crown of my head and some on the sides. Don't panic, from all the posts I've read -- of those who are way ahead of us -- it just takes a longgggggggggggggggggg time. Eyelashes too.

      You can whine here anytime. We all do a bit of it.

LtotheK

ECT, have you looked into LUSH henna?  They have some very beautiful brown, not red.  Henna is much better for hair than regular dye. 

Carrol2

ECT your hair looks great. How many weeks is it since your chemo? I can't wait to have hair again. Thank you for positing your pic it give me hope.

ladym13

ECT- looks great!! and your sons hair is SO like mine with all the wingy things...lol

you're hair is coming along nicely

lrr4993

Okay, I was not convinced that the stubble my mom said was there was really stubble, because I could not see it.  Well, three days later and I am now convinced!  It is really growing.  I can tell by touch alone.  There is much more of it and it feels longer.  I also seem to have major peach fuzz coming in.  It is like my scalp has turned to ash (it is mostly grey) in the last couple of days.  Yeah!!! I was so afraid it would not regrow or would grow slowly.  4 weeks post treatment and it feels like about 1 cm of stubble.  Awesome!!!  

hrf

I don't want to discourage anyone as I know most people get their hair back with no problem (I did also after my first chemo in 2005). This time I had TC and it's been 18 months since I finished. The crown and front of my hair have not recovered. What little bit of hair I have is not healthy - very thin, dry, limp and my scalp shows through all over the top. It's impossible to style my hair as nothing holds. I'm sure almost all of you will be just fine. I wouldn't mind if my hair was very short, if at least it was thick enough to cover my scalp. Best wishes to you all. (I've tried minoxidil and many other types of non prescription treatments including lots of Biotin -- nothing helps.)

Carrol2

well i for one am very alarmed. but it's only been 3 weeks PFC

lrr4993

Carrol - don't worry yet.  It is very early. I am only one week ahead of you, but last week I had nothing in the way of new growth.  In fact, last week I was still losing hair from the last treatment.  It is like it all the sudden started growing in the last 5 days.  I have been religiously taking a hair growth supplement for the last two weeks.  I wonder if that is helping.  I will have to stop it next week for rads, so I hope that does not slow the growth.