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Hair Growing Back
Hi All,
I am on my last paclitaxel chemo next week and staring to look beyond the chemo bad ass.
I am just completing 8 courses of dose dense chemo - 4 xAC, 4x Paclitaxel and am wondering how long it took for others to grow their hair back. I know this is assuming it has grown back sufficiently, as some women are unlucky with hair regrowth.
Just hoping you can share you experiences of when your hair grew back enough to actually feel like you had enough to do something with and any changes in your hair regrowth from before chemo.
Many thanks,
Jo
I am on my last paclitaxel chemo next week and staring to look beyond the chemo bad ass.
I am just completing 8 courses of dose dense chemo - 4 xAC, 4x Paclitaxel and am wondering how long it took for others to grow their hair back. I know this is assuming it has grown back sufficiently, as some women are unlucky with hair regrowth.
Just hoping you can share you experiences of when your hair grew back enough to actually feel like you had enough to do something with and any changes in your hair regrowth from before chemo.
Many thanks,
Jo
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- @JJ70 Well that's a happy bonus!
- @Ellamary98 your eyebrow tatts look great!
@Kiwi Angel I am jealous about the heels! I like to wear heels every now and then, but don't know if I will ever have feet that will tolerate them anymore since chemo!
@Finch @kmakm @Kiwi Angel you were all monks in a previous life, obviously!
I think my hair (this is the hair on my head now that I am talking about :) ) has grown back thicker than it was pre chemo. Maybe there is another little silver lining, as my hair was always quite atrociously thin! My hair dresser always had to put the hair dryer on lowest heat setting or she'd burn my scalp! - @Finch :o :o
The mystery continues!! - How weird!!
- I'm the same B)
- :o
Why, is it so?! A great mystery... - @kmakm when I got out of the shower this morning I noticed that my lady garden may be growing in a similar fashion to yours!!
- @Ellamary98 they look great!! I’m just drawing in the sparseness at the moment - hoping they don’t completely disappear.
@kmakm @Finch it was nice to get into a pair of heels again!! It was pretty cold here last night too but not frostbite material.
@JJ70 I may need to break out the razor this weekend!! - @Ellamary98 Oh yeah, they are good!
@kmakm As requested- here are my tatts. These are almost 2 years old and beginning to fade, but I reckon I have at least another year before they need re-inking.
