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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I think I might have found a good thing so I'm going to post about it here in case anybody with a similar story reads it.
Over the last couple of years I've grown back some whispy but horrible hair. It seems that it is finally enough to be able to hold a topper.
I have had lots of full wigs, mainly acrylic. They are a good temporary solution to hair loss but they don't suit me as a permanent solution. I went hunting for toppers. It's hard to know what to buy online because you need to colour match etc so I wanted to visit someone to look at my hair and tell me what to do. It's hard to find places. Around Brisbane I have only found one that custom makes toppers and that doesn't glue them onto your head. I want to be able to take it off or put it on and still have my hair underneath. Some that get glued on need some hair shaved for good contact and I didn't want to do that.
I looked around online and found a placed in Brisbane (Ashgrove) called Tango Hair Loss Clinic. There are two ladies there who are hairdressers and all they do is make customised toppers for people with tricky hair loss problems whether it's alopecia or problems like mine.
They made a plastic profile of my head and we worked out where the hair is missing and where it needed to go. We picked the colours of hair to go in the piece to match my own hair and blend in and the order was done up to be sent overseas. It takes 3 months to be made. Then I will go back in to have a hair trim once it's clipped on so it can be perfectly blended together.
I tried on a sample and it feels really good. It's so much better than a wig. Not tight or itchy. Being human hair it's soft and feels lovely. It probably feels similar to having just a hair clip in your hair. The topper can be cut to duplicate my own original hair if I bring in old photos.
The downside is that it's expensive. $2,600 for this one but I get $1,000 back from my health insurance if I get a letter from my oncologist to say that it is a prosthetic required as a consequence of cancer treatment. So it will cost me $1,600. I think it's worth it considering what I've been through. I expect it to be game-changer for me. I can't wait to get it. :)
Over the last couple of years I've grown back some whispy but horrible hair. It seems that it is finally enough to be able to hold a topper.
I have had lots of full wigs, mainly acrylic. They are a good temporary solution to hair loss but they don't suit me as a permanent solution. I went hunting for toppers. It's hard to know what to buy online because you need to colour match etc so I wanted to visit someone to look at my hair and tell me what to do. It's hard to find places. Around Brisbane I have only found one that custom makes toppers and that doesn't glue them onto your head. I want to be able to take it off or put it on and still have my hair underneath. Some that get glued on need some hair shaved for good contact and I didn't want to do that.
I looked around online and found a placed in Brisbane (Ashgrove) called Tango Hair Loss Clinic. There are two ladies there who are hairdressers and all they do is make customised toppers for people with tricky hair loss problems whether it's alopecia or problems like mine.
They made a plastic profile of my head and we worked out where the hair is missing and where it needed to go. We picked the colours of hair to go in the piece to match my own hair and blend in and the order was done up to be sent overseas. It takes 3 months to be made. Then I will go back in to have a hair trim once it's clipped on so it can be perfectly blended together.
I tried on a sample and it feels really good. It's so much better than a wig. Not tight or itchy. Being human hair it's soft and feels lovely. It probably feels similar to having just a hair clip in your hair. The topper can be cut to duplicate my own original hair if I bring in old photos.
The downside is that it's expensive. $2,600 for this one but I get $1,000 back from my health insurance if I get a letter from my oncologist to say that it is a prosthetic required as a consequence of cancer treatment. So it will cost me $1,600. I think it's worth it considering what I've been through. I expect it to be game-changer for me. I can't wait to get it. :)