Hair Hair Hair - Another question

Dara--I feel your pain! I'm the same way, but gosh look at all that dark beautiful hair you have! You look great! Mine is growing but not filling in much and still very grey. So depressing. the top sticks straight up. I look like a troll. The sides and back are flat against my head. I am getting my hair colored next week. And my hair dresser says I need a haircut. Not sure where that is coming from because there is barely any there to cut. My brows are back except for a couple thin spots that have yet to fill in. I was afraid brows would come back grey too but they are darker than before and they grew in really wide. I was looking like a cave man. I had to take the tweezers to them the other day. Upper lashes are back too but not real long yet. They are long enough for mascara and I was pretty excited to put some on the other day. Got it out of the drawer only to find it had sat for so long it was dried up. Lower lashes are barely visible. Tomorrow will be 8 weeks pfc for me and only one more week of radiation to go!

is anyone else having this problem?

My hair is starting to grow in (8wks PFC) but I still plan to wear my wig for a while because it's got a long way to go. My natural hair line is lower than the wig. So particularly on the sides of my face I can already see the silver glittering out from the brunette wig. And also next to my ears. I assume I will also have this problem at the top of my forehead when that starts filling in.

I guess I could try a different wig but I'm not really feeling like going out and buying a new wig now that I'm hopefully growing my own hair back. It's not really long enough yet to color I don't think.

Any ideas? Thanks

I was the queen of wig-wearing, and I definitely had this problem. Coloring helps, obviously.

But a couple of other fixes were helpful, too: I wore a wig cap (mine was made of nylon and had a texture like fishnet stockings) and tucked as much as possible underneath. The folks who sold me the wig also gave me a headband with a velcro closure in the back that I placed on my hairline, then put the wig on top. That sort of anchored things in place, and I could tuck the stray wisps back underneath.

Dianarose-that was the exact same pic that I had used for my hair goals. I have decided to keep my hair short. It is so easy. I always had long hair but I'm rocking the short hair. I have gone without my wig since about 13 weeks PFC. I got regular haircuts to keep the shape nice. Was way easier to grow it out when it was even and coloured.

This pic is 1year PFC.

Dianarose--that is the exact same style as the girl had that I saw in Costco today. It was so pretty on her. I'm afraid it wouldn't be on me though. I seriously feel like I'm stuck in this wig forever

Well, here's week 8 PFC. Not seeing much change lately. Coloring next week. Hopefully it will make a difference. I just want my hair back! We all do.

dianarose--I'll color it back to my natural color. Medium/dark brown--maybe a little auburn. The hair at my neckline is my natural color. The rest is mostly grey/light brown/white and every color but my own.

Dianarose--I am having my hair stylist color my hair. She said she would be using a gentle oil based color that is good at covering grey since that's what most of mine is. I think it's silly that I'm spending money to get my hair colored when I am nowhere near being able to go without the wig but I just can't stand looking at all this grey anymore, and how weird will that look with the back being my natural color which is dark and the rest is all grey/white/very light brown. The color might even make individual hairs thicker. I was hoping to have some curls, but no such luck. The sides lay flat against my head and the top sticks straight up. I had very curly hair as a kid, but it's been stick straight ever since. My MO even told me it would come back curly but I'm not seeing it.

I know what you mean about the steroids! For the last 12 weeks of my chemo I never slept on a Friday night because of them. And it was strange for about 3 weeks after chemo was done that I still didn't sleep on Friday nights. I guess my body was programmed to the steroids.

HopefulYogi - I had the same issue with the gray hair showing on the sides of my brunette wig. My hair lines are different too, so I'll probably be wearing my wig for another month (I'm 16 wks PFC). I found a temporary hair dye wand, like a mascara wand. I brush the temp dye on my temples before putting on my wig. I found it at my local Natural Grocers store. I just did a search and you can find similar products on Amazon.

Molliefish- your hair is beautiful . Last time I did chemo it came baa k like yours and I hope it does this time. So easy scrunch with a little curl cream and done . Was your hair curly before chemo

Hi Dianarose, thank you. It was curly before chemo but not like this. I kept it long and it would hang in long lose curls, and if i put it in a pony tail or braid, it would straighten quite easily. I find that it is starting to relax now under the weight of the hair. But it is much thinner than before Chemo, and I have two very thin patches on the Crown at the back.

Seq24, I'm surprised at how long your hair was one week PFC. I'm 10 days out, completely bald over much of my head and with the shortest of stubble, like a man at the end of the day, on the rest. I hated my wig because it looked horribly fake and gave me a headache and no way could I stand one in the weeks ahead as the weather gets warm.

Lyn

Bravepoint - I think you could use it on brows, as it has good coverage and doesn't sweat off when I go to the gym. There are also pencil like temp dye things when I did my Amazon search.

back is growing wish the top wo

ok, I'm officially bummed. Ive realized I'm losing my eyelashes again😖 They came back nicely and now I'm finding them all on my check and have lost at least 50%. I've heard several women voice the same problem. BC, the gift that keeps on giving! Ggrrrr