Chemo curls
How long did it take for you to lose your chemo curls? I’m 6 months past chemo & my hair is growing quite fast, but I think it’s getting curlier 🧐. Wouldn’t mind getting my straightish hair back now (although I am happy just having hair)
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- Oops, just realised there is a hair discussion already 😏
- Nothing wrong with starting another. I'm two years post chemo and my hair has settled down a bit. It's always been curly or wavy depending on length, but the frizz I could live without. It's also gone quite dark, particularly at the back. I used to have dark hair but let it go grey years ago and now it's back. In patches. Go figure. Mxx
- Two years 😳 Oh no. Yeah, my hair is so grey & the ones that aren’t are dark. I used to have light coloured hair with the odd grey....
- We're all different in this too, @Doodoo. I finished chemo in the October, but didn't start going out without a hat or scarf until February. My hair grew back very salt and pepper to start with. My chemo curls were lovely soft curls, and I wanted to keep them. Alas for me, by 1 year after chemo, no more curls. By around the same tome it had returned to my natural colour. I elected not to go back to colouring it, instead joking with people that I got out of growing the colour out the "easy way" - said with tongue firmly in cheek :p
- I’ve tried staying grey @lrb_03, but have decided to get some lighter foils. I see myself in window reflections every now & then & I get such a shock! Dark hair greying with curls!! Who is this person 😳 xx
- I finished chemo in October too @lrb_03. Did you have radiation? How are you going now?
- I finished I finished active chemo in October too! No radiation. I love the feel of my hair but it is radical to look at. Goes every which way.
- Hubby had curly hair for some years following his chemo - and even has a little bit of curl now, 9 years later!!
A girlfriend had straight hair before her chemo 10+ years ago ... and still has significant curls now!! - There’s a few of us finished in Oct then @Blossom1961. Just had a facial. Had a head massage & eek, curls everywhere 😂. First one since pre cancer. Bliss!!
@arlie looks as though these curls won’t be going anywhere soon then! - Sorry, @Doodoo, I wasn't terribly clear. I finished chemo in October 2015, not last year. I was more trying to give a bit of a timeline, for when things happened for me. I still wish that I'd had those chemo curls for a bit longer, though :D
