Did your hair grow back "different"?

I'm wondering the same thing. I had thin, straight hair, but a lot of hair per square inch. My hair was black with occasional white hairs.

After chemo, my hair grew with my natural colors, but curly. At first, the texture was rough/dry feeling. But now I'm 14 months PFC and the hair is softer, but still a little curly/wavy. The back and top are curlier/wavier than the sides. So far, I had it cut twice. I want to grow it out but it starts to look a little wild with the curls/waves.

My new hair is sparser -- I don't have as much hair per square inch -- I can tell because my hair part shows much more scalp than before.

I'm wondering if my hair will go back to it's normal texture. If it doesn't I can live with this curly/wavy hair -- I just have to keep it short.

my MO told me that the initial regrowth is akin to baby hair, hence the need to be cautious about resuming colouring and styling methods. This made perfect sense to me as my hair grew back as curly as it was in my childhood. I read an article once that said it would ‘harden off’, they called it a ‘death stage’ for lack of a better term. Over the years, like the others here, it’s returning to the original pre-chemo state....think brilllo pad! Firestone expressed interest in it as an additive for tires, along with my pot roast 🤪

So after four years I have road worthy hair that’s a wee bit thinner (thanks tamoxifen!) one day I’ll have to post about my first hair cut post re-growth, ugggg. One other thing I noticed is that the pattern of grey completely changed and never went back. I actually have less grey...ok by me!! At the end of the day I’m so happy to have hair again I can’t complain, even when it drives me nuts!

Ililmae - great pics! Beautiful hair and face!!

Mine is about the same as before. I always had very straight, fine hair. It always tangled very easy. I had my first tangle since it started growing back yesterday!! I was actually excited that I had enough to tangle!!! Lol I had hair nearly to my waist when I was diagnosed, with blond hi-lights, and a spiral perm. I LOVED my hair!! I had just gotten a perm in January and of course, it was the best perm I had ever gotten. My hair was beautiful!! Then I got the diagnosis. So April Fool's Day last year I cut it off short. Then by mid May I was losing it. I had very little grey, just some at my temples that you couldn't see because of the hi-lights and because it was underneath. When it started coming back in it started as mostly grey, blonde or white. I really couldn't tell. Eventually the brown took over and now I only have a touch of grey in the bangs and around my face. So I have natural hi-lights!!

Hi, my hair is growing back curly. I had pin straight hair before this. Just went for my first haircut to give it a shape and I had it colored too, it came in with the texture of a brillo pad and the color of charcoal gray with no shine. Having it colored helped with the texture, so it looks a bit normal now.

Chemo ended on November 8th and I had quite a bit of hair left because I cold capped. Funny thing though it all fell out in January, oh well! Now I have 3 inches of curly, curly hair. Just happy I have hair!