Anyone NOT get chemo curls?

Tresjoli2

so my hair is growing back thick and frizzy, but not curly. I look like Kramer with my hair sticking straight up on my head. I can't find anything to tame the beast. Has anyone else had their hair come in bone straight but sticking straight up? Arghhhh!

SpecialK

Same, no curls at all. I looked like a cross between Don King and a Chia Pet. I had to use pretty intense styling product and cut it a lot. It finally did resume normal texture

Noni

I feel like a Chia pet. There is no styling this beast. It also came back nearly black and gray.

I am a blonde darnit!

Noni

Exhibit A:

SpecialK

noni - I had the opportunity to see that my bottle blond hair had become completely gray - it was a shock to see. I had to resume blond-ness slowly, it was a process of brown to a few highlights, to my regular number of highlights. My stylist indicated that too blond, too soon = cheetah hair, lol!

samanthamala

Mine grew back thick and straight for the first 2-3 inches or so, I was excited because I always straightened my curly hair before cancer. But now it is getting longer and the ends are starting to wave/curl, texture looks pretty similar to what I had to begin with. Give it time.

Noni

Specialk, I've been spraying a little peroxide in mine and then sitting in the sun. I was curious what my natural hair color was, but I've seen enough now.

Anonymous

I am horrified that I am going to have to let my grey hair grow in. Can we not use vegetable dyes?

Beatmon

I'm a year and half out from taxotere, have had two cuts at least and I still have fuzzy ends. Yuck

PS that pretty red hair is a wig lol

Tresjoli2

It's driving me crazy and nothing works...Thanks ladies for making me feel not so alone.

Smurfette26

No chemo curl for me. I'm 4 months out and my previously brown hair has come in very grey. It's as straight as it was pre chemo.

Faith-840

25 years ago when I first lost my hair from chemo, it came in gray and straight for a couple of months. I kept wearing my wig for awhile but hated it. It soon got very curly and I had my hairdresser dye it for my daughter's wedding just 6 1/2 months after my last chemo treatment. I've been coloring it ever since then and I don't think it's the cause of my cancer mets to the lung all these years later. Now, at 75 it's thinning more from the meds. I don't think I will lose it all, I sure hope not. That's one thing I really hated! So gals, color away.😉

hyphencollins

ugh, mine came in gray too. It's wavy but not super wavy. Growing it out is horrible.

DeeRatz

Mine is not curly either, more just wavy and out of control if I leave it. I blow it dry with a small round brush to pull it straight, then use a tiny straightener on it. I have had it cut and colored twice since I was done chemo in Oct. I am due for another haircut as the longer it gets the bushier and curlier it gets. So my plan now is to keep the sides and back shorter and trying to grow the top longer. My hairdresser really thins it out and texturizes it, and that helps to control it as well. I use several pomades/hair glue as I call it, to hold it in place. One of them is an Aveda hair paste, the other one is a Redken product. I put a bit of each on my palm and really rub my hands together to mix them together before putting in my hair. It seems to hold quite well.

molliefish

Beautiful Dee!

Tresjoli2

just checking back up on this thread. My hair doesn't stick straight up anymore, but growing it out has been one painful process. I still feel like my beautiful long locks are never going to come back. Barrettes, Bobby pins, pomade...a daily struggle. I used to swish my hair I to a pony tail and go....

Denise-G

Just wanted to give encouragement that your hair will eventually become hair and not just what I call "duck fuzz". I just got a few waves, but now that my hair has been back for 4 years, it is great hair. Much better than my old hair. One weird thing - my natural part changed from my left side to my right side and has never gone back!

I had my hair colored when it was only tennis ball fuzz. I hated the gray and my niece, a hair stylist, was eager to help. Someone asked me if I got approval from my MO. I said, heck no! He pumped in gallons upon gallons of poison into me, what is a little hair dye?

My sister is now 16 months out from her last chemo. Her hair is looking great. It took awhile but it is really cute!

Sending all my best!

Kicks

I was so hopeing my hair would come back a nice grey - it didn't. I am cursed from Daddy's side of the family that our very dark brown hair stays dark naturally 'forever'. (Mom's side all greyed beautifully very young.). Basically, my hair came back exactly as it was pretty Chemo - very dark brown (not black but close) and straight.

It is aggravating to be in the hair section looking for hair accessaries and total strangers to tell you you'd look 'younger' if you didn't dye your hair so dark. I DON'T DYE MY HAIR - It's color is totally how it grows! Yeah - I'm really weird in so many ways and 70 y/o.

Noni

Here's me today with clean hair, no product, and in desperate need of a touch up. The texture is still different and it has more body than ever before. I still pull my hair back in a pony and try to flip it around as if I had my long hair back. Some day!

MinusTwo

My hair was blondish with some grey. It came back brown. Go figure. Three years down the road, I have some waves back and it's baby fine again - and still very thick. I've been keeping it short since several people said I look 10 years younger. But I REALLY miss my long hair. What to do...the future is a mystery.

octogirl

My hair did come back very curly...(still no gray though, which for me is something to be happy about in the midst of this (%*)(*() storm...I am 63)..

Anyway, I hated the curls. Everyone said they looked really cute, and objectively I knew they did, but they were a symbol to me. So after almost a year, and everyone saying how cute I looked...I decided to embrace the curls. Just at the point where I let myself like them, I realized my hair was changing again! Just had a trim and hairdresser noted it as well: the curls are starting to go away and my hair is going back to being wavy, and thicker, and not real manageable: more as it was before chemo. Sigh. I should be happy to get my 'real' hair back, but I think I will miss the curls. As Minus says, the future is a mystery....

queen_k0302

I had thick, mid back length, light brown reddish, curls the size of a pencil and coarse. My last chemo was in Aug. My hair is only about 2 inches, slight wave around my edges, black with a few grays but straight.

I missed my curls at first but I'm loving the way it is now.

Freya244117

Mine has come back the same as it was every time. Dead straight, fine, but lots of it. I really wanted curls, or at least a wave. Oh well, it least it keeps coming back