eyebrows and hair "Oh My"

My last chemo tx was Mid-April 2007 ....... and it was the last week in MAY 2007 -- that my eyebrows disappeared on me  -- overnight....... I have heard this is common with the brows especially....

Regarding hair growth ( again with last chemo mid-April 2007 ) I was still wearing a wig til the end of Aug 2007 and then went to wearing a hat ---  since the hair was not as thick as the sides and back of head... again this is common that the hair growth on TOP is slower then rest of head... and my hair always was normally thin on top   due to my under-active thyroid  grrrr....

ANyways continue to wear my hat -- until FINALLY I decided I would be ok without a hat - and that day came on New Year's Eve....... my first haircut was in March 2008.....

this next week Tuesday will be haircut #3 -- however, I am looking to grow my hair out into a diff style....  BUT I must tell you - that may hair is much thicker on top then what it had been in the past 8 yrs.    So that is a good thing for me   ACtually I lost my eye lashes prior to completing my last chemo in April 2007 (( easy to remember bc at Easter 2006, my mom is like put on some mascara etc .... I'm like its rather hard to put on mascara when I have NO EYELASHES  except maybe 2 - 4 on each eye  --- geeezzzzzzzzz ))  My parents don't live locally -- so didn't see them hardly at all when going thru tx.

It is sure hard to believe that a year ago I was bald and waiting for the hair to GROW GROW GROW ---   nowwwwwwwww  I  LOVE it when the wind blows thru my hair  ..... BUT I still recall and enjoyed  how I never had no- bad- hair - day when wearing my wigs  LOL

Hugs

Hi Mary....I too did TCH and finished May of 2007.  Eyebrows and lashes fell out after chemo, about 6 weeks after.  And like Otter says...they can fall out again, several times.  Mine did 4 times!  And thinned out a 5th time!  But...I never lost all of them at the same time.  My hair was sooo slow in coming back tho, maybe due to the Herceptin.  I have had 6 haircuts so far and I have more hair now!  And it holds a style!  And looks better!

I used to shave my pits and legs 2x week, more during the summer.  Legs are now down to about 2x month and pits about once a week and that's fine by me!  But I know....you want your hair and YOU WANT IT RIGHT NOW!  I thought my bangs would NEVER grow to my eyebrows...but now I have to trim them EVERY WEEK!

You'll have your hair back....wish I could speed things up for you....but it gets better!

Yes, Mary, it happens AFTER the chemo stops. Mine came out five weeks after I finished my neoadjuvant chemo. The jury's still out on what will happen after the post-surgery chemo which ended two weeks ago.

I read somewhere that eyebrows and lashes grow in specific cycles, and that's why it can happen more than once. Usually, the hairs fall out randomly, not all together. When they fall out all at once, and grow back all at once, then they are all on the same cycle together. It may take a few cycles for the hairs to gradually stop acting together and get back into the random pattern.