Hair growth after chemo

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hray1993
hray1993 Member Posts: 342
edited December 2020 in Chemotherapy - Before, During, and After

how is everyone else’s hair growth going? Let’s see those pics! Have you cut it? Dyed it? Have a style? Is it coming back curly? Here’s mine. I have my first hair appointment on Wednesday and I’m dying it silver/grey and possibly cutting it. I wanna see image

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  • YesIamaDragon
    YesIamaDragon Member Posts: 363
    edited December 2020

    Mine is currently Aquamarine :) Which is not the color it grew back, lol!

    Hoping it washes out soon though, because i have a really bright red to dye it for Christmas!

    Has grown back almost as thick as it was, except for 2 bald patches at the hairline --I can live with that!

    Sure wish the hair on my legs hadn't grown back as thick and dark and curly as it had been, though.

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  • WC3
    WC3 Member Posts: 1,540
    edited December 2020

    I cold capped but still lost most of it. I was left partially bald on top with two straggly rat tails in the back so I had them trimmed off and ended up with a ceasar cut.

    I have very fine, straight hair that has a hard time holding a curl and the most my hair was able to manage as it grew back in was a weird partial wave at the tips on the side where I had a bald patch.

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  • hray1993
    hray1993 Member Posts: 342
    edited December 2020

    yes I am, I bet that aquamarine is so pretty!! How long is your hair right now?

    Wc3, that sucks the cold capping didn’t really work. My hair was very fine and thin pre chemo but it’s coming back a little thicker this time

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited December 2020

    hray - I love the curls in back.

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  • hray1993
    hray1993 Member Posts: 342
    edited December 2020

    minus two, thank you!! I love them too but they are driving me insane. It won’t do anything. I’m thinking of cutting it like this so the top can grow. This is the exact color I’m dying it I just can’t decide if I should cut it or not. We have family pictures this weekend and I want it to look good image

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  • Iamloved
    Iamloved Member Posts: 228
    edited December 2020

    I am 6 weeks since my last treatment and I am getting nervous about permanent hair loss. I have not noticed much growth if any. When did everyone else start to see new growth?

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  • moth
    moth Member Posts: 4,800
    edited December 2020

    I had huge problems with color on the first regrowth. I think it had chemo chemicals in it. It would not take a color properly and instead of blonde i ended up with orange...multiple corrections only partly fixed it. I had to wait to grow it out and cut it again and then the dye took ok. I was at a top notch salon which specializes in color so they had tons of resources but it was a disaster

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  • hray1993
    hray1993 Member Posts: 342
    edited December 2020

    Ian loved, my hair seriously didn’t start coming back really at all till about 8 weeks post chemo

    Moth, that scares me a little... I’m getting mine done Wednesday with family pictures on Friday

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  • NorCalS
    NorCalS Member Posts: 288
    edited December 2020

    Iamloved,

    AC chemo blew out my hair after the first treatment and I only had a few strands left by the last taxol treatment. My eyebrows and eyelashes fell out last, so I expected them to grow back last. Well, eyebrows and eyelashes grew back within a month of my last AC-T, and my hair didn’t start seriously growing beyond a stubble until over two months after last AC-T. The hair grew back slowly, but recently, I’ve noticed a growth spurt. It’s been a year and a month since last AC-T and my hair is a shag-like style, which back of the hair about an inch longer than shoulder line

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  • NorCalS
    NorCalS Member Posts: 288
    edited December 2020

    Hray,

    I love that short cut with gray/silver color. I’ve seen women wear that color with violet or light blue tips, which look fantastic. Hope your cut and color turns out great

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  • Maryjv
    Maryjv Member Posts: 306
    edited December 2020

    hray-I think the cut is gonna look so good!

    I am lovedI finished chemo in March, all of my hair fell out a month later and then started growing in! Super curly I love it! I used to have straight hair-I hope these curls stay!

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  • Beesy_The_Other_One
    Beesy_The_Other_One Member Posts: 274
    edited December 2020

    hray1993,

    I remember being so worried about cutting even a scintilla of hair off when it took so long to grow in (Herceptin slows growth in some women and it did mine) but I can tell you WITHOUT A DOUBT that you will enjoy a cut more than you can even imagine. I remember feeling like I went from someone who's hair was growing back from baldness to having something that looked like a stylish (albeit short!) hair cut.

    I've followed you since you joined our ranks (since I could easily be your mother and have daughters older than you)--it's so great to see your beautiful, smiling face!

    --Beesy

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  • hnsquared
    hnsquared Member Posts: 72
    edited December 2020

    Iamloved....don’t worry it will grow. I finished AC-T 8/5/20 and it was about 8 weeks before I started seeing the tiny little stubble coming in. I was so frustrated and worried it was never going to grow. Once I was covered in stubble it felt like all of a sudden I had full coverage. My hair is still short but my head is fully covered. You will be there before you know it

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  • KMom57
    KMom57 Member Posts: 252
    edited December 2020

    iamloved, I cold capped but did have a couple of bald areas. I looked back at my messages and I didn’t mention seeing new hair growth in those areas until about 7 1/2 weeks out. It was only about a week and a half ago when I noticed a black shadow over my eyes, and realized it was new eyebrows growing in. I was starting to wonder if they were going to come back. I looked every day and saw nothing, and then all the sudden there they were. My hair is growing slowly, but once my eyebrows started growing, they grew fast and look like they are going to thicker than before. My eyelashes are still pretty straggly, but if I look closely I can see tiny baby lashes poking through. I am about ten and a half weeks out. Hope that makes you feel better.

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