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  • AEM47
    AEM47 Member Posts: 297
    edited August 2012

    Shera - looks great :-)

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  • Momof2inME
    Momof2inME Member Posts: 683
    edited August 2012

    Shera-Looks terrific.

    I too sport a mohawk on days at home without product.

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  • JoanQuilts
    JoanQuilts Member Posts: 633
    edited August 2012

    Shera  you have SO much more hair than I do and I am only 2 weeks behind you.  You look chic!

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  • onvacation
    onvacation Member Posts: 1,344
    edited August 2012

    wow Shera - that is a lot of hair!  Looks wonderful!

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  • MamaV
    MamaV Member Posts: 907
    edited August 2012

    Shera - you are rocking that look!  Work it!

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  • kjiberty
    kjiberty Member Posts: 1,385
    edited August 2012

    Lago:  I am too lazy to back and read your prior posts, but did you use a temporary rinse when you first started coloring it?

    My hair has grown by leaps and bounds this past week.  I am so excited!  I have actually gone without my wig several times.   

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  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 17,186
    edited August 2012

    Nope the first time my hair dresser used permanent professional hair color (Framese). Same as I used prior to chemo for years. We did find that the Framese didn't cover the increased gray as well so he switched to a different brand the next time. Not sure what it is though. Still having some issues by the temples.

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  • kjiberty
    kjiberty Member Posts: 1,385
    edited August 2012

    Thanks, Lago!  

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  • AEM47
    AEM47 Member Posts: 297
    edited August 2012
    Kjiberty - my hairdresser said the temp colors would work better.  The permanent colors lift your color, then deposit the new color.  The temp colors only deposits pigment so they tend to take better in this situtation where they hair is coming in with grey.  She also said you can use the temp colors any time you want, since they have no ammonia, or harsh chemicals in them.
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  • Ella_117
    Ella_117 Member Posts: 54
    edited August 2012

    AEM47 - thanks so much for the wig tip! I finally located and bought the estetica Monika wig in dark brown and I love it. It is so lightweight making it perfect for this hot weather. I love how the part looks so real...finally, 3 wigs later, it feels good to find the perfect wig. Thanks!

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  • Nkb
    Nkb Member Posts: 1,436
    edited August 2012

    Where did you find it?

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  • tina_jason
    tina_jason Member Posts: 147
    edited August 2012

    So glad I'm not the only one who colored my hair quickly.  My DH said I look 10 years younger.  I'd said just by that comment alone it was worth it!!! 

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  • AEM47
    AEM47 Member Posts: 297
    edited August 2012

    Ella - I'm glad you found it.  I bought 2.  and I cut the bangs a bit on both - kinda underneath, to have little wisps.  it's very versatile and you can clip it up on the sides, leaving strands down which looked really nice.  I also used to take a real small little claw clip and pin the longer part of the bangs back.  No one ever thought it was a wig and everyone was facinated at how real that wig looks.  Having 2 made it less stressfull if I wanted to wash one and didn't want to wait for it to dry...so I always had one ready.

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  • jpmomof3
    jpmomof3 Member Posts: 643
    edited August 2012

    Shera, I have the same exact growth pattern. I am six weeks post f'ing chemo, sorry, I liked it better when I thought it was that... I can't keep it from doing it. It won't do anything but it wants to do,



    Kjiberty, congrats on going topless!



    I am going topless all the time now, I love not having anything on my head.



    Have a great day!

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  • Kelloggs
    Kelloggs Member Posts: 965
    edited August 2012

    Shera - I have a great little faux-hawk too!

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  • onvacation
    onvacation Member Posts: 1,344
    edited August 2012

    PFC will always mean the same to me - so much more true!

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  • kjiberty
    kjiberty Member Posts: 1,385
    edited August 2012

    AEM:  Thanks for the tip

    JPMom:  Congrats on going topless all the time.  I take my wig off the second I get in the car.  It's so darned hot! 

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  • slak
    slak Member Posts: 179
    edited August 2012

    I'm 10 weeks PFC today so I decided to measure my hair.  It's about 3/4" long.  However, it lays so flat that it looks like much, much less.  I know I should just be happy its growing, but I guess I am more impatient some days than others.

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  • jpmomof3
    jpmomof3 Member Posts: 643
    edited August 2012

    Hehe slam I know what you mean. Mine stretches out to 1 inch, maybe but is doing the same as yours. I Still look like a marine but it's better than looking like a bowling ball.

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  • Sissydi
    Sissydi Member Posts: 516
    edited August 2012

    Lol jpmom! I'll take marine!

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  • jpmomof3
    jpmomof3 Member Posts: 643
    edited August 2012

    Wools damn auto correct, slak, not slam...

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  • Nkb
    Nkb Member Posts: 1,436
    edited August 2012

    I was getting chemo today and overheard the nurses chatting in the nurses station and one said " I know some really good hair removal products, I'm going to bring them tomorrow for you to try"

    And I thought I know a really good hair removal product too! Lol

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  • Myleftboob
    Myleftboob Member Posts: 1,469
    edited August 2012

    Nkb

    We all know what that is LOL! 

    JP Mom

    I'll take marine too!!  I have to wonder if I'll ever stop rubbing my head LOL!!!

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  • kjiberty
    kjiberty Member Posts: 1,385
    edited August 2012

    Myleftboob:  I find myself rubbing my head all the time. It's probably something psychological thing--maybe it will feel longer than yesterday? the day before?  Like I can really gauge?  At least there's a little hair to rub.  

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  • Eileenohio
    Eileenohio Member Posts: 460
    edited August 2012

    I am 10 weeks PFC ,my hair is finally peach fuzz but no real hair. Do you gals think that wearing a wig most of the time slows down the hair regrowth? I am so bummed when I see some of you with a lot more hair that I have and you are only 4 or 5 weeks PFC.. Ugh  my hair use to grow fast but at the rate it is growing now it will be a year before I have any real hair...Depressing!!!!

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  • Myleftboob
    Myleftboob Member Posts: 1,469
    edited August 2012

    Eileenohio

    I know how you feel.  I'm nearly 15 weeks PFC and just really sporting a GI Jane! Herceptin seems to slow the process.  I notice many of the ladies here that seem to have really good growth and that finished around the same time I did aren't HER+.  Sigh, what can you do.  I wondered the same thing about the wig, don't really know but I only wear it out when absolutly necessary.  Even this weekend at a friends with a bunch of people there I only wore a ball cap.  Most of the people knew what I had been through and the only comment I got was from a guy who's Mom was having TX at the same time I was and we would see each other there all of the time.  He basically just said that his Mom's rate of growth was about the same as mine.  I'm seeing a bunch of friends this coming weekend and one of them wanted to go to a bar.  At nearly 50 I'm kind of past the bar thing but I declined because there's no way I'm sitting for the night at a club with a wig, way too hot.  So I think we're just going to do the backyard thing and I can go topless!

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  • Husker123
    Husker123 Member Posts: 101
    edited August 2012

    LOL! I rub mine all the time too! It feels like rabbit fur right now. I wish some of the tiny hairs would catch up a little. It's pretty gray at the moment but I have a feeling I'm going to look like a mouse when it gets filled in. Come on & GROW!!!

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  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 17,186
    edited August 2012
    Eileen Herceptin does slow hair growth. My hair grows really fast so when I stopped Herceptin it was like I had sprayed miracle grow on my head. You will see it pick up once you're off Herceptin.
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  • Nkb
    Nkb Member Posts: 1,436
    edited August 2012

    Nails nails nails- mine feel sore and I have slight neuropathy, fingers kind of clumsy, but, ok. They look a little weird and are tentative. I can't do certains things without apprehension.



    Anyway- I went to try on some new shoes( def, finally feel up to a little retail therapy, plus, all my old shoes hurt a little now). Anyway- the sales lady brings me the box of shoes, i open the box- they have never been tried on before and there is paper stuffed into the toes. I can't get it out! Hurts and seems too hard. I consider asking the lady sitting next to me to pull it out,but, worry that she'll think I'm a complete nut. Finally, with lots of probing with my knuckles I get it out.

    The simple things in life.

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  • shera
    shera Member Posts: 184
    edited August 2012

    Thanks for all the nice comments :)

     

    I rub my head too -- that's too funny that so many of us are going around rubbing our heads. Maybe we are just overly conscious of our heads now. 

     

    ha ha --  Myleftboob and DivineMr: isn't it funny that we consider a half-inch of hair to be a "whole lotta hair"!? 

    So it's called a faux hawk... not a ridgeback. That does sound better.  I'm 45 -- too old for this hairstyle but I kinda like it. Good to know that it will eventually grow out and look "normal" though. Especially since I don't think I could make it go away if I tried. Its pretty determined to stick up. I have a collick in front too. The hair is doing its own thing. 

     

    Jpmomof3 and Kelloggs -- You both have the faux hawks too... we should start a punk band!  

     

    JoanQuilts -- It seems like hair might grow in a little faster after less chemo. I had TCx4. Looks like you had more.... but that being said -- there was a big difference in just the past 2 weeks. 

     

    Eileenohio -- It sounds like herceptin is slowing things down for you (?) but I do think exposure to the sun helps hair grow. 

     

     

    Well... tomorrow is my 6 month follow-up with the Breast Specialist who did my mastectomy. It's been 6 months. It seems like a few lifetimes ago. 

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