Regrowing hair
This possibly sounds silly and vain however, I am looking for advice on regrowing my hair post chemo. I have been looking online but hasn’t been helpful. The first hair that came through was grey a...
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Definitely not silly - we all look forward to having hair again. Having had dead straight hair all my life, I had lambswool at first - chalk white and violently frizzy. It gradually became more of a steely grey and very curly, but not quite frizzy. At that stage I found a regular trim helpful - it gave my hair a better shape. Over time it turned much more auburn - and with considerably less grey than I'd had before chemo! It was a fairly slow process from curls to a bit of a wave which I enjoyed. Be prepared for some other changes - my hair texture (quite coarse) became much finer and about 18 months in, my shed pattern changed, initially a bit alarming until I checked the wide range that is 'normal' and realised that my very thick hair previously was probably due to an extremely low shed pattern! Agree entirely with Tri about the undersung value of nose hair, and my 'new', very tiny eyelashes were just visible as the last of the old ones floated onto my cheek. Best wishes.
Thank you for sharing your experience. It will be interesting to see what my hair does over the next year. Pre chemo it was armpit length and a mixture of grey and light brown. What came through first is grey frizz and now a lot of very very black hair is sprouting, crazy stuff. Might just go with the flow and have some fun with it, who cares what other people think.
