Who didn't cut their hair before it fell out?

Hi @Kombigirl, I used cold caps and when they didn’t work as well and my hair started to thin out on top and patches appeared, I didn’t cut it because I had a bit at the front and the back, which worked well under a beanie. It looked terrible and it was always falling out in the shower. I wish I’d just cut it all off early in the process. I was late for work during my second week of chemo because of sweeping up hair from the floor and cleaning it from the drain. I was never entirely bald. Hair falling out everywhere and the pain of cold caps were the worst parts of chemo for me. I had ACT chemo. 

My sister in law didn't. She had cut her hair to a bob before starting chemo. Her family complained finding it everywhere. In the fridge. In food etc.

I only got mine shaved off once it was coming out in chunks. I was at the swimming pool when it started...came out in my cap. Then chunks in the shower stall. I got home...put on rubber gloves and pulled and pulled on it to get loose stuff out. Within a few hours and despite this I virtually had a second layer of hair below my bob line...all the hair that was detached. I found it distressing. So I called my hairdresser and had it buzzed off. Felt so much better. 

I did have AC chemo. My hair partly grew back on weekly taxol so if just that it might be different. 

Cold caps are different and some people just thin with that. Entirely your own choice. Just have a plan for if you can't stand the fall. Kath x