Chemo curls ???

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Spookiesmom
Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
edited June 2014 in Chemotherapy - Before, During, and After

My hair is finally coming back. Yea!! The question is, has anybody else had curls in spots? In some places it's straight, other places its curly. Looks strange.

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  • gillyone
    gillyone Member Posts: 1,727
    edited March 2013

    Chemo curls are very common. After a while, your hair may go back to normal.

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited March 2013

    Yes, but this is patchy, some straight, some curls. Strange looking

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  • SelenaWolf
    SelenaWolf Member Posts: 1,724
    edited March 2013

    My hair came in super-curly from forehead to the nape of my neck and wavy, but not as curly on the sides.  And thicker and wirey.  Prior to this I had baby-fine, all-over slightly wavy hair.  At first, I used to flat-iron the snot out of the top to make it lie flat, but, now, fourteen months later, it seems to be settling down somewhat.  I don't need to use the flat-iron as much, but it's still curly enough for me to continue to keep cutting it short like my avatar.

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited March 2013

    Yes! That's what I meant! I always had short straight hair. Soft and fine. This! This is awful. I never had perms. I'm already looking forward to my first hair cut, it's only an inch long now.

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  • flannelette
    flannelette Member Posts: 984
    edited March 2013

    Pretty sure it will just eventually go away and become like it was before. I was so thrilled when, for the first time in my life, I gre in thick, curly! hair. then it went back to straight as a poker and I have to use grooming clay to keep it from looking like a beatle cut.

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited March 2013

    Maybe if my mom hadn't tortured me when I was a kid with those horrible Toni/Lilt home perms I could deal with this better. LOL. She thought whatever ailed your hair could be fixed with curls. I'm gonna check out flat irons.

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  • SelenaWolf
    SelenaWolf Member Posts: 1,724
    edited March 2013

    I have a really small, short one that is intended for bangs.  It's easier to handle on the shorter hair.

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  • JoyE1947
    JoyE1947 Member Posts: 6,485
    edited March 2013

    I had curly hair as a baby but after my first haircut it was straight.  I also had the Lilt and Toni perms given by my mother.  It was an ordeal to go through and for a few weeks afterword the curl was way too tight.  Surprising it didn't fall out with all of the the chemicals it was subjected to. After losing it during chemo it has come back curly and is soft and easy to manage.

    Selena - your picture is beautiful.  I think you look like a movie star!

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  • SelenaWolf
    SelenaWolf Member Posts: 1,724
    edited March 2013

    Um... my avatar is a movie star.  It's Charlize Theron, but I use the picture as an avatar because it is the photo I took to my hairdresser right before starting chemo and asked her to cut my hair like that. Cool  I can't remember how I got the photo to upload and everytime I try to change it to one of me, it doesn't.  So, I'd love to say thank you, but that wouldn't be fair.

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  • JoyE1947
    JoyE1947 Member Posts: 6,485
    edited March 2013

    Thanks for clearing that up.  But I am sure you are beautiful too!

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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Member Posts: 99
    edited November 2013


    I love my chemo curls - much nicer than my previous dead straight hair.

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