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Flickety
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12 years ago

Hair cooling caps to retain hair?

Hi, This is my first post on this site. The reason I'm writing is to find out if anyone has experienced using the hair cooling caps to help retain their hair during chemo. I would love to hear of your experiences - good & bad and if it's worth it. OR if you have already had chemo, would you have taken up this option if it had been available to you? I have stage 3 cancer, I'm in my early 40s. I don't have private health insurance so it will cost me about $1400 all up. They give you endone to cope with the pain but I am not too good with morpheine. Thanks

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  • Flickety's avatar
    Flickety
    Member
    12 years ago
    Thanks for your helpful comments. I'm still on the fence. Another negative of the hair cooling is that I have to travel to another town 200km away to access it. My main reason is that I was told that your new hair usually looks different after chemo. But I will go through early menopause too so I suppose my hair will change anyway!
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    JodieWall
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    12 years ago
    Hi flick. Sorry you have to be here but nice to meet you xx I finished chemo in march and looked into the cold caps. My onc recommended not to use them incase there were any nasty cells lurking near my scalp. Because your scalp is cold/frozen the chemo can't get there or work on the cells. So I shaved and wore my beautiful wig to work and went GI Jane at home :-) I have read many success stories about them though. Good luck with everything :-)
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    JodieWall
    Member
    12 years ago
    Hi flick. Sorry you have to be here but nice to meet you xx I finished chemo in march and looked into the cold caps. My onc recommended not to use them incase there were any nasty cells lurking near my scalp. Because your scalp is cold/frozen the chemo can't get there or work on the cells. So I shaved and wore my beautiful wig to work and went GI Jane at home :-) I have read many success stories about them though. Good luck with everything :-)