Cold caps

Hi AndreaH.
 It depends on where you are as not all hospitals offer them, you might have to travel.  You can hire them from Penguin cold caps but that looks like a hard slog, lots of dry ice and some fuddy duddy hospitals are not keen on you lugging an Esky in!  They are horrendously expensive to the tune of around $700 a month.  But when I thought there was no other local option I was going to do it.  Luckily I had a new hospital open close to home that some generous soul had raised money for and donated a Paxman scalp cooling machine.  Absolutely well worth the search.  
I had my second last treatment today. (pic below)  After 4 rounds of AC and 11 rounds of Taxol I still have long blonde hair (it has thinned) but nobody but me can tell.  I also live on a farm so have probably been a whole lot harder on my hair than what they recommend.  Through 40 degree Qld heat I had an Akubra jammed on my head and washed from the mid length down every day and sometimes twice depending on the amount of sweat LOL.  I figured it wasn't going to fall out from the ends so why not. Don't know whether the cap had anything to do with it but I never lost my eyebrows or eyelashes either.  Everything else went so maybe it helped with that as well.   All the best.

wow that's a bloody amazing picture! I had my treatment at Redcliffe hospital but they didn't use them and I heard that about pen private too they might use them now at Redcliffe as my treatment was last year so might be worth calling them otherwise I have an appointment with my oncologist there on Monday week the 22nd if you'd like me to ask for you??? You can just pm me about it if you'd like or any other questions as I'm over your way.. Best of luck to your beautiful girl. Sending her a massive hug Margie :)

I used cold caps and lost my hair after a nurse didn't check the machine properly. Still, I kept it for 3 months and it started to grow back. If I could go back in time, I would have gone without it and listened to music instead. It added a lot of time to my treatment and not being able to hear very well was a bit isolating. I did have very fast regrow he after chemo and have retained my thick hair. This is going back 2 1/2 years ago, so things have probably improved since then. I used the new style machines.