Hair

Ok... gonna vent.  You try to be gracious about the hair loss.... and patient.  I'm in a bad mood.... throwing things around the house... lol  Don't want to go anywhere... just another stinking thing to have happen to me.  Yes... feeling sorry for myself... damn well pissed off.  I started using the Nioxin shampoo, conditioner and scalp treatment just before chemo (taxol) started and used it throughout chemo.  I am still using it and I've added Rogaine now, been using it for about 4 days, morning and night. Wash with the Nioxin and then when it's dry put the Rogaine on.   I thought it was doing good for six weeks, but some of the photos on here of women's hair at this time looks fuller.  It was low dense Taxol, 12 treatments....how bad can it get? It looks like long sparse strings of hair on the side of my head... I take a string of vitamins, multi, B complex, etc... biotin (which I just added after chemo) Omega.  I'm getting IV Vit C and other vitamins from the Naturopath weekly, which I just started.  What if this doesn't come back full and some what thick?  And how long is the question.  I hate going out in a wig, they don't look real.  This is all consuming, sick of it.  12 weeks of horrible chemo, and now enduring this.  Sorry, just friggin mad.

Thank you for that response mustlovepoodles.  So within 3 months your hair looked fairly good, good enough for a haircut.  I guess I will grasp onto that.  Just havin a bad night.  When I was  getting a test done before chemo, a nurse at our local hospital comes up to me while I'm literally getting a chest x-ray and tells me her mother, which was the same age as me, had chemo as well for breast cancer about 2 years ago.  And then tells me her mother's hair never grew back properly, but mine looked thicker so probably would do better.  I mean what a thing to say... and I was under the impression I was not going to do chemo anyways, as it was just thought I had DCIS at the time, and found out after surgery that it was a bit more than DCIS.... so it then was upgraded to Stage 1A with Pagets.  By the way I like your username.  My guess is you like poodles, I have 2 and love them too! lol 

Also, what is maddening too, is a spec was caught on my mammogram in 2012 and I was sent for a biopsy then to another Radiology Center.  The doctor there, didn't bother to do it, said he looked at the mammogram they sent to him and it was fine and benign and did no other tests. So negligent.  Thus the next year they saw it again obviously, and assumed it was ok, from what the doctor said it being fine.  It was only a calcification and there was never any lump.  So, I had no idea there was a problem.  I too thought I was fine.  I didn't go back for 2  years for the next one, as I just had a few things in life going on and thought it doesn't run in the family, no one has ever had breast cancer in my family ever.  Again, I just thought I was fine. Such is life it seems.