Eyelashes and eye brows

Same thing happened to me - the hair on my head fell out two weeks after my first round of AC (and it was more than a month PFC that I started to get some fuzz again), but my eyelashes and eyebrows mostly held on until I finished chemo, just a little thinning at first, and THEN fell out completely. It sucked badly, I had big thick eyebrows, I looked so strange without them and it was harder to cover that up than it was to hide my bald head. I was like, "Really, AFTER all of this is over, NOW you fall out?!"

But, the good news is, mine, at least, grew back pretty quickly and all at once, brows and lashes, even after falling out bit by bit. I finished chemo at the end of May last year, and since then, my eyelashes and eyebrows have grown back in and I've gone through a couple more shedding cycles - not nearly as bad as when they fell out completely, but maybe three times since they grew back, they've thinned. It's getting better, I'm currently going through another shed but it's not nearly as bad as the previous times. I just use a brow pencil to fill in the gaps where they look a little sparse, I don't like it, but it's not nearly as awful as having them gone completely!!

From what I've read, it could take up to a year for them to get themselves back on a proper, staggered growth cycle again so that the hairs shed individually at different times, but we'll get there. It totally sucks having to look in the mirror every day and see our diagnosis and treatment written on our faces and heads (I have about 4 inches of hair now, and I hate it, it used to be halfway down my back and it pains me every second of every day to see it short), but it's all part of the process, all part of the healing, and it'll all sort itself out in time, you just have to be patient (easier said than done, I know!). Invest in a good brow pencil and practice in the mirror, that's what helped me get through it, and ditto for a good mascara - I'd recommend one with a tiny brush if you can find it, it's handy when your eyelashes start growing back and they're super-short. Ooo, and eyeliner, that can help hide the bare patches until your lashes come back properly.

Yeah, unfortunately, my lashes and brows were repeatedly falling out and growing back in bunches, at one time i had a total of 8 lashes😂Yes i counted them😊. Took months for them all to get on differing growth, and fallout cycles. After chemo they all get on the same growth, resting ,then falling out cycles. Normally they are all on different cycles. Some are growing, some are resting, some are falling out. So you never notice the cycling. It takes awhile but they get back on track. Eyeliner was my camouflage, lot of people never noticed I had no lashes, or so they said😉💖

Not to scare anyone, but it's four years after my final chemo, and I still have sparse lashes and brows. I draw my brows on every morning, and eyeliner is my best friend. Hope you're luckier than me!

I'm six months out from chemo and they do come back. I'm using eye and brow pencils, after years of no makeup and it helps.

My eyebrows thinned towards the end of chemo. Chunks were missing at a time but grew back quickly. I just filled in with a pencil. The eyelashes all fell out about six weeks after chemo. They left very quickly. Someone on this site recommend "Lash Discovery" mascara and that really helped with it's super tiny brush.

I've never had them all out again but seem to go through periods where they are thinner than normal.

Yay! Silver lining!