Hair Hair Hair - Another question

onvacation

I had really long hair before all of this, but as soon as I have coverage plus a bit I plan on going topless!  I bought a shorter wig to transition from my long wig, I will probably start wearing that next month and hope to be topless by november - december at the latest!  I have started doubling up the biotin this week.  I was taking one a day.  No idea if it will help, but since it is water soluable figure it can't hurt!

Myleftboob

I've used a semi perm rinse 2X already and I'm about 16 weeks PFC. I have pretty much stopped wearing the wig in favour of some cute hats or nothing. Between the heat and the hotflashes I just can't take it!



I had a nice compliment from a cashier where I pick up groceries today. She said I really suited my new look. I said its wasn't really one I would have chosen but rather it was a result of chemo. She said she figured as much but that I looked great anyway. So nice of her to say.

shore1

Kjiberty, yes, im a big chicken. My hair was long and nice. Now its short & curly/frizzy. My husband says its cute & that my face carries it off, like Halle Berry. Ha ha - he's delusional. Im going back to work in october after being out over a year and plan to go topless then. But im getting a salon relaxer and high lights first the end of September.

onvacation

MLB your hair is coming in so nice in your pic!

jittersmom

I have a covering of gray and black "hair" my last chemo ws March 20th, but I am still on Herceptin until Dec. CAYH..I agree with everything you said. I too had ling hair and dyed it all the time. Now wash an go. I have bags of clips, bobbie pins, and hair ties...my daughters confiscated most of it while I was in treatment. I am loving the freedom from my new hair, and think I am going to keep it this way! Its like my badge of honor for surviving treatment and cancer!

auntienance

Over the years, the older I've gotten, the shorter my hair has gotten. I'm a big fan of "wash and wear" hair. However, I wasn't planning on no hair! I have to say the really short hair had been nice in the extreme heat we've had in the Midwest this summer.

kjiberty

auntienance:  I can relate to this hot weather and no hair.  The short hair especially comes in handy when the S/E's of arimidex (hot flashes) kick in. 

tina_jason

Its a weird feeling when the wind blows and your hair doesn't move.  Just saying...

Elizabeth1889

You are looking great in your new avatar, auntienance.

AEM47

Tina - Mine finally moves in the wind and I still haven't stopped swatting my head thinking a bug landed !!

Lumpynme

i think i need to increase my biotin..i'm doing 5K right now- i do tend to massage my scalp while watching tv..don't even realize taht i am doing it!

i feel like an 87 year old man with not much there!so thin and sparse and straight!

auntienance

Aw, thanks Elizabeth! I know it doesn't look like it's grown much but actually I've been getting it cut every three weeks for a while now.

jittersmom

tina_jason..lol it is funny to have the wind blow and your hair not move!

liefie

Last week I had a few fun hair experiences when we travelled to the USA. As we were boarding a plane, the gate attendant told me that my hair was very attractive. A few seconds later the air hostess on the plane told me I looked 'adorable' - thought only babies were adorable? But then again, I look like one at the moment. . . I am still puzzled why people feel they should comment at all. The funniest moments however were whenever my passport had to be checked, because I do not look like my photo at all at the moment. The border agent would do a double take, become embarrassed, stamp my passport, and send me on my way - no questions asked, and the same with my DH. That was the quickest, smoothest entry ever into the US and back into Canada again. There are some perks to this after all.

jpmomof3

Hi ladies, nine weeks pfc now. those stories about remarks in the grocery store and ushered through customs are great. I can't tell how many people realize I am post chemo or think i just like my hair short. Why they feel obligated to say any thing about my hair is beyond me. Though I have found it rather amusing when the patients I work with ask me if I am new here. They don't recognize me even though they have seen me before. Then I point to my badge and say that you saw me before but I just had a lot more hair!

onvacation

JP- you have a nice head of hair for 9 weeks!  I am almost 8 weeks and no where near you!  You look fab!

kjiberty

JP:  Great head of hair!  I am going to post a new pic soon.....

lago

There were a few times when folks commented when my hair was first growing in that I told them it was the most expensive hair cut I ever got. I was all ready to tell them my onc's name when they asked who my hair dresser was but no one ever did.

BTW I'm still keeping it very short. Today is 2 year NED!

kjiberty

Lago:  Good one--love it!  Congrats on your celebration!  I will be celebrating next Friday--DONE!!!!!!!

I get so many compliments on my "hair".  I may keep it short, even though it was almost down to my shoulders--the longest it had been in 20 years.  I have only worn my wig twice in 2 weeks--for sales presentations to a University. Ripped it off as soon as I got in the car. 

Anonymous

Advice Sought: Finished TC on 7/19 - when will i get scalp coverage?  I have had growth more recently but still very sparse and no one would say that I was anythign but bald. VVH

Carrol2

VVH I had 4 tx of TC and it took about 4 months for me to get complete coverage. It's 1 1/2 years and it's pretty much to my shoulders now.

schatzi14

lago...congrats on 2 years NED..that's great!

Elizabeth1889

VVH, I had 4 rounds of TC, too, and it took about 8 weeks for me to notice any hair growth. It has now been 15 months since I finished chemo and I have a good amount of hair now. You would never think I had once lost all my hair.

ButterflyLady

I took my last chemo cocktail of taxotere and cytoxin in May.  I have some regrowth but very thin and sparse.  Still have to wear a scarf.  Taxotere must really be hard on the hair follicles.  6 years ago at around the exact same time, I chemo of adrimyican and cytoxin and then taxol.  I was finished in May and could go with out a scarf by sometime in August.  It was very short but the hair covered my head.  I am so afraid I am going to be bald looking for the rest of my life.  I guess I will have to break down and buy a wig to start wearing, but I hate wigs.  They are so uncomfortable and itchy to me.  This just sucks.

Myleftboob

Wow.  This got dropped from my list of fav's.  I think when I use my BB I inadvertanly take it off somehow.  Touch screen blues.  But I digress.  I had hat hair today!!!!!! 

Momine

VVH, for me it took about 12 weeks for my head to be covered, and a little longer for it to look like it was on purpose.

ang7894

I can't get my front to grow very well I am taking 15,000 mcg biotin a day and I use nioxin shampoo & conditioner tired of lookng like a boy :{

Lumpynme

i just cannot believe how full your hair looks jp! i have so much scalp showing --i'm only at 6 weeks PFC (i think!) ---if i didn't have more scalp than hair i think i would almost be ready to go topless cuz the wig is getting to me!

Lumpynme

ok- i was stuck on the last page so i hadn't seen VVH's post- gosh...i'm in the same boat!!! i try to be encouraged that it hasn't been that long but i know that altogether i had 20 weeks worth of chemo so i am durned ready to have hair again!!!

it could be worse, i know! i'm just ready to be ______ again (fill in the blank!)

kjiberty

VVH:  About 7 weeks for me.  Total coverage.  It's like night and day.  I rarely wear my wig anymore. It's too hot!  I get compliments on my "do" all the time.  Getting in colored and trimmed this week.  When I say trimmed, I don't mean because it's long--just to even up the uneven flyaways.