Hair loss and time frame

Hi @likeleigh2, I cut my hair very short (number 1 blade) a week after I started chemo and by day 17bit was all coming out and fast. My brows are nearly all gone after 3 AC treatment and 4 taxol and I have 6 more to go.

I have been wearing scarves and beanies. I have not got a wig (covid makes it hard to try) but I am thinking about online so interested in any recommendations ladies make here as even though 6 more weeks of treatment, there is the growing time too. 

Best wishes to you ❤

Hi @Afraser,
Funny, I've been doing the same each morning . It's been feeling "coated" for the last 3 days so figured I was getting close. I decided to cut it short once it does start.  Always wondered how I would go with sort hair, now is the time to try..
Thankfully I'm an online shopper already and had already ordered some turbans as now deliveries are taking longer

Hi, I started to lose my hair about 7 days after my first treatment and it came out in big chunks. It was pretty much all gone another week or so after that. I was on doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide. I started off with a free wig from the cancer council wig library but I only ended up wearing it afew times. In the end, I preferred the turbans and head scarves which were cooler to wear.

Hi @likeleigh2

I lost my hair 13 days after my first chemo treatment (A/C) - I used to run my hands through my hair to check each morning and that was when I got a good handful of hairs to show for it! Not clumps, just quite a lot of single hairs. I’d already bought two wigs and arranged with my hairdresser (end of the street!) to cut my hair very short. I took my wig with me so in about 40 minutes, it was out with the old and on with the new! It was quite a relief, my hair didn’t feel like mine towards the end. I was able to go and have a wig fitted so can’t advise about websites but I’m sure others will be able to help. Best wishes.