Sore Head...

@Zoffiel no need to apologies you actually made me laugh, i actually made myself laugh as i thought well at least its a cheap and painless Brazilian im having lol.....
@Sister will go get it done as soon as the weather clears a bit here, it is shocking, i walk out in it and my hair literally blows away lol.....sorry if i dont laugh i will cry again.....

If she's the 'just suck it up' type she will be fine with you taking matters into your own hands if you decide to get ahead of the big fall out. That was a terrible pun. Sorry. TBH,  making some decisions or taking some actions on your own can be both easy and empowering. 

Go to the barber's and have it clipped if you don't have anyone to do it for you.  It'll be less painful coming out and you'll feel more in control.  Well, I did, anyway.

Thank you all for putting my mind at ease, and yup this morning i woke up and yes my hair has started to fall out, at the moment though it just seems to be falling out in the spot that is painful to touch, and the funny thing is I haven't stopped crying all day, i honestly didn't think it would effect me this way, doesn't help my partner is in Bali and i have no one around to lend their shoulder to cry on, but then again she is the type of person to tell me to suck it up, i knew it was going to happen, and in away she is right lol...just thought I would come and let you all know that it has started and to thank you as you did put my mind at ease about the soreness...
Cheers 
Wendy xox

I never got much of the prickling pain sensation but for quite a few weeks my scalp was extremely painful and tender if I scratched it or rubbed it too hard

@Schwen it's rotton no one warned you about this. I have no idea why the oncs don't ALL tell their chemo people this is likely. I rang my BCN frantic that I was having some sort of allergic reation--my head was so sore and I thought I'd pulls the skln off scratching at it.

Once I realised it was my hair departing I got a friend to run the horse clippers over my noggin then shaved it. The funny thing is it continued to grow in patches, kind of. Parts of my head were silky smooth but others continued to need a bit of a touch up with the razor. 

The way you describe yours sounds like it is on the way out, maybe consider getting rid of it completely. A friend of mine let hers fall out bit by bit and the mess was outstanding.

It's more like a full hairbrush, but really really full one. You run your hands through your hair and increasingly large amounts come out. As @primek says, this can be quite distressing which is why so many of us clip it very short around this time. You do what's right for you Wendy. All the best, K xox

I didn't clip mine until it started coming out rapidly. Day 17 for me. It started when I was washing my hair after  a swim. Clumps of hair. I think it was a few days after it felt sore.  I came  home. Washed brushed and dried it and had a full layer of falling hair still hanging below the cut line. So I then contacted my hairdresser as I found this process distressing. 

If your hair feels dry and damaged, that's another indicator. For a week before mine fell out, it felt like it didn't belong to me. Hard to describe but not pleasant. I used to run my hands through my hair first thing in the morning. The first indication was a lot of hairs on my hands, but not clumps. I had already organised to get my hair cut really short and did it that day. Short hairs falling out are easier to deal with (practically and emotionally) than long ones. Shaving of course is the other option. Once it started, my hair went pretty rapidly. I had some sleep caps (helped with the sore head) and simply emptied it out over the bathroom sink in the morning! 

@primek nope does not feel like that to me lol, feels like i forgot to duck when getting into the car quickly, and yes i suppose in way it does feel weird like a slight tingling sensation, I decided that I was going to wait until it started falling out before I got it shaved, my girlfriend would of left me if i had it shaved and it didn't fall out lol, I know for the last week or so my  hair has felt dry and damaged, that the only way i can describe it... So another question.... does the hair fall out in big clumps or is it more like when you brush it the brush gets full??