Losing eyebrows and eyelashes after finishing chemo?

hi, I had my last chemo December 10 and didn’t lose my eyebrows and eyelashes until 4-6 weeks after. They came back in pretty quick, and very thick, but I have noticed lately that my eyebrows are thinning out again so I wonder if I’m going to loose them again!

Also, the reason it feels like we lose the lashes/brows again, like Muddling mentioned, is that now all the hairs are on the same growth cycle, so the normal shedding happens all at the same time. It takes time for them to get on different schedules again.

My eyebrows started to thin in sections towards the end of chemo. They came back in as they were leaving so they were never all gone. My eyelashes fell out maybe 4-6 weeks after the last round of chemo. They were much, much slower to return. I never had any repeat problems.

I found Lash Discovery mascara worked the best as the lashes came back so slowly and were tiny. It has a super small brush that helped to "find" the lashes.

I had a deep horizontal ridge across all of my nails from the first (and strongest) round of chemo. That grew out in about 6 months. Towards the end of Herceptin I noticed my nails were doing this weird lifting thing where the line between the pink and white areas got jagged, especially the ring and pinky fingers. I think that is finally resolving.

Following this, DG. So far I'm not seeing anyone who lost hair but did *not* lose brows/lashes?

P.S. And congrats on finishing chemo! That has got to feel wonderful!!

I never lost all of my eyelashes or eyebrows, during or after chemo. My eyelashes thinned but I always had some. I kept 2/3 rds of my eyebrows.

I too lost lashes and eyebrows a little before and after chemo completely grew back but never were thick again but they have so much they can do to create them that didn't exist when I went thru treatment. msphi idc stage2 0\3 nodes 3mo chemo before and after Lmast got married yes was planning Our wedding then 7wks rads and 5yrs on Tamoxifen. Praise God this yr 24 yr Survivor.

I'm about 3.5 weeks PFC, and I'm still losing eyelashes and eyebrow hair - I started losing them about halfway through my Taxol treatments (I did 4 DD rounds), but it got worse after the last treatment, and while it's slowed down, it's still happening. I have a small fraction of my eyebrow hair left right now (I had VERY thick eyebrows before all of this nonsense), and so few eyelashes left that I could probably count them on two hands, and the few hairs that are left continue to fall out, with no new regrowth yet. The shedding can't possibly last much longer, there's hardly anything left to fall out!

I'm really hoping that they'll start to grow back soon, along with the hair on my head (I've been bald since early March) - I'm really terrible at drawing on eyebrows every day!! (I'm not a makeup person at all, I've literally never done my own makeup before, beyond the occasional swipe of clear mascara and smidge of eyeliner for a special occasion.)

As for nails, I haven't had any trouble with them at all through 8 rounds of chemo. No lifting, no ridges, no discolouration, nothing, and they've continued to grow as per usual (and they're just as hard and strong as they usually are, too). I didn't get any neuropathy from the Taxol, either, so maybe I've dodged that bullet.