Permanent Hair Loss?
I'm wondering if others like me have ended up with a degree of permanent hair loss? I've always had thick hair. No longer. I had AC followed by Docetaxel and now 15 months after the end of those ...
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Thank you for the advice. I have a laser helmet which I've used for a year. If it helped someone else a bit I will try it for longer.
I have gone through every published research paper that I can find on this condition and it seems to me that the problem has been documented for a decade, yet nobody told so many women given Docetaxel that they might permanently lose their hair. Cancer didn't do this to me, the chosen treatment did. I did not know enough about the medications to make a better choice. I relied on the advice of my oncologist and that was a mistake. The trouble is that I was not in a condition to do any more than that at the time. Having Docetaxel was a big mistake and in the same situation, knowing what I know now, I would insist on a different medication. If I was told of this outcome I would have had to think hard about what to do, but the issue is I was told my hair would grow back. That was wrong. If there were two possible treatments and one was going to ruin my hair away permanently, then I would have picked the other. All the published research is saying that there is no treatment. The Minoxodil or other treatments that increase the blood circulation to the scalp can only improve the hairs that are already coming back, it cannot regrow the hairs where the follicle has been destroyed by the chemotherapy. Different women are left with different amounts of salvageable hair. I will keep trying to maximise what I've been left with but it makes me cross sometimes and just really sad the rest of the time.
I have gone through every published research paper that I can find on this condition and it seems to me that the problem has been documented for a decade, yet nobody told so many women given Docetaxel that they might permanently lose their hair. Cancer didn't do this to me, the chosen treatment did. I did not know enough about the medications to make a better choice. I relied on the advice of my oncologist and that was a mistake. The trouble is that I was not in a condition to do any more than that at the time. Having Docetaxel was a big mistake and in the same situation, knowing what I know now, I would insist on a different medication. If I was told of this outcome I would have had to think hard about what to do, but the issue is I was told my hair would grow back. That was wrong. If there were two possible treatments and one was going to ruin my hair away permanently, then I would have picked the other. All the published research is saying that there is no treatment. The Minoxodil or other treatments that increase the blood circulation to the scalp can only improve the hairs that are already coming back, it cannot regrow the hairs where the follicle has been destroyed by the chemotherapy. Different women are left with different amounts of salvageable hair. I will keep trying to maximise what I've been left with but it makes me cross sometimes and just really sad the rest of the time.