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It's been a while since I've been on the boards.. I finished chemo in November (10 months) ago and rads in February. I was on Herceptin until end of May. I always had very straight fine/thin blonde hair. My hair has grown in straight and lots of it ! I still can't believe how much hair I have.. I used (and still do) every product anyone mentioned (Nioxin, Nioxin scalp booster, Biotin supplements). The lashes and brows came back (lashes fell out twice). I think they (the lashes) took too long to grow in. But they do. When my lashes were long enough (stubs) I used the individual lashes for a few months until they grew back to normal looking. That being said, know this. you are all perfectly beautiful as you are right at this moment. And when that's sunk in, use eyeliner, hides the no lash look!
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It's been a while since I've been on the boards.. I finished chemo in November (10 months) ago and rads in February. I was on Herceptin until end of May. I always had very straight fine/thin blonde hair. My hair has grown in straight and lots of it ! I still can't believe how much hair I have.. I used (and still do) every product anyone mentioned (Nioxin, Nioxin scalp booster, Biotin supplements). The lashes and brows came back (lashes fell out twice). I think they (the lashes) took too long to grow in. But they do. When my lashes were long enough (stubs) I used the individual lashes for a few months until they grew back to normal looking. That being said, know this. you are all perfectly beautiful as you are right at this moment. And when that's sunk in, use eyeliner, hides the no lash look!
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ladym13 - hi there is a product called Rapid Lash that's good for growing lashes thicker and longer. I see you're also from Mississauga (I'm from Meadowvaile)...anyway, they sell it a Shoppers Drug Mart.
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Hi Sugar...I also live in Meadowvale...small world
I'll check out shoppers tomorrow...thanks
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MrsNice - the Look Good Feel Better class is great fun - a nice sized bag of free high-end makeup, and some make-up tips. Good stuff!
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ladym13 - i know the one at Meadowvale Town Centre stocks it. It's $59,99.
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I found a new product called Green Magma which is Barley Grass full of nutrients for hair, skin and nails. It's expensive $65 for an eleven oz container but found it on sale for $45 today. I will let you know if it helps! Full of Magnnesium, Calcium, Iron, Potassium, Folic Acid -- all good for SE's of chemo. Found out about it in th N. Perricone bood Forever Young, which, if you are trying to get your health back after treatments, I highly recommend. Tons of helpful info on diet and nutrition and specifically for women with BC and in chemopause!
I bleached my hair when it came in mostly grey with black and just recently used an organic dye on it now that I am 6 months out (no one told me I couldn't bleach it!!) and left it on for 45 minutes just in case it wouldn't take the color. It's now black/brown! I almost feel like me again!
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You will love that Look Good, Feel Better class.....my friend Lee did it and she got all sorts of really good cosmetic products and was so excited. She is the reason I am writing...she is young (by my standard at least, I am 60) 47 and although she had lobular and mine was ductal and we did not have the same treatments she is always asking me questions which I try to answer. Anyway, I was talking to her tonight and she was cracking me up. She said she's got tons of hair, close to an inch long, but it.s SILVER. She said her eyebrows look like bruises and then just today she looked in the mirror and has all this peach fuzz!! I said oh yeh, that will happen and she asked for how long and I said I really couldnt remember, but do know that it went away and that places I had unwanted hair before are gone.....like I dont have to pluck my eyebrows in between any more and that whisker I had is gone as well as my little mustache hairs. But I do remember the fuzz and thinking oh great, now I am going to have a beard. I stopped the chemo that caused my hair to fall out last July22 so its been well over a year and some of it I just dont recall. I do know my hair was much whiter at first and in the very beginning almost what you would call colorless. It came in straight and very soft and has stayed that way, softer than my hair used to be. My eyebrows are back, but they are not as thick or dark as they used to be, but I recall looking in the mirror and thinking what in the heck are those bruises. I am sure she will now want to keep her hair gray since she isnt even 50, but who knows, maybe it will get darker. Mine is salt and pepper and very silvery and I like it. My eyelashes, now those are a problem, but I am still hoping one day they will be back to normal...they grow down like a camels instead of out and I also have a few lashes that grow inward and those have to be plucked out because they scratch my cornea. Now that is a real PIA. But I am doing OK, have hair and feel better than I have for a long time so want to encourage you all to hang in there. I should be ashamed of myself, but tonight when she exclaimed And today I looked in the mirror and there's all this peach fuzz!!! I just couldnt help laughing. She.s still got drains in which is bugging her since its been 3 wks, she is going to be starting radiation once they finish filling the expanders and she's having a fit over peach fuzz. Ah, ain.t it grand to be a woman!!!
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As far as Loreal Lash Booster, I have seen it for $24.99. Or are we talking about two different things. I googled it, and found some interesting eyelash info:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/L-Oreal-to-Come-Out-with-Eyelash-Serum-for-Longer-Lashes-119568.shtml
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You can buy L'oreal Lash Booster everywhere. Wal-Mart, Walgreens, CVS. It's a bit pricier than regular mascara but I really think it helps my eyelashes.
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Is there any product out there that we can use to colour hair while on chemo????
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I really would not recommend coloring your hair on chemo. Your scalp is probably very sensitive. But if you insist on it, I would go with a temporary colorant (like Loving Care), nothing permanent.
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Well today at work I got a compliment on my very curly hair. I have been using several products, and it makes it look very chic and also natural. My hair began growing back about 8 weeks pfc. I had very straight hair before and now have intense curls everywhere. I'm now at 23 weeks pfc. My hair looks a lot like the actress Leslie Hope from the TV series 24. My coworker remarked that it looked like my hair had been styled by a professional. I needed to hear that. Here's the website with a picture of the actress from season 1 of the series 24. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teri_Bauer
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cute! I'll take it! Right about now I'd almost take any hairstyle and some boobies to go w/it! LOL
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I wouldn't dye your hair while doing chemo at all. Get a good wig to get you through--one that breaths--and get it style properly and one that can be colored. You head is like a sponge right now and you have enough chemicals going on. I had a real cute wig that lasted me for 6 months until it finally got so hot outside I couldn't stand it. I waited until my hair was about and inch and half long and I was 3 months out of chemo even before I just bleached it, no color. And now that it's 6 months I use natural dye from the health food store. Just leave it in longer like it instructs to do for grey hair because it is more resistant to color.
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I am 5 weeks out from last taxol.. I have absoluetly no hair...I am getting worried it will never start to grow back!! worried worried.. Also have no eyelashes. I heard you can get fake eyelashes that actually stay on. Does anyone know about this?
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I understand that you can go to a salon to have the eyelashes done. I am a complete makeup freak, but I just wore lots of eyeliner until they grew in long enough for mascara.
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njbhwgirl - take a deep breath and try to relax. It would be extremely unlikely that your hair wouldn't grow back. I worried too, and finally after 8 weeks from my last chemo I began to see hair sprouting. Now at 23 weeks I have a head full of curls. I bought fake eyelashes but never used them. On the day after my last eyelash fell out (weeks after I finished chemo), I began to notice some lashes beginning to grow back in. The new lashes and eyebrows grew in very quickly after losing them. The hair took longer and in one spot I thought I would be permanently bald, but it eventually started to grow in too and then all of a sudden, it grew like wildfire in thickness. My hair is nearly two inches now. Hang in there!
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nkbhwgirl- I was SO freaked out too...I thought my hair would never come back...remember that the chemo stays in your system for at least 6 weeks after...I remember at about 8 weeks post chemo I started seeing it and now it's about half an inch...eyebrows came back REALLY fast and the lashes are on their way too.
Why can't it just grow back as quick as it fell out eh?
Mo
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Mabeline makes a nice, inexpensive set of lashes. I am finding the lash thing interesting. My 2nd set is nearly gone now and I see two or three levels of growth coming in. Right eye does all this first then the left follows shortly after. I had bought Rapid Lash and had used it 2 weeks when I began to notice again. Have decided to hold off on the Rapid Lash and try it again after full set is back again.
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Hey LilyLou,
We seem to be experiencing the same things. My right eye would lose the lashes first and then the left eye. It's very weird! I've lost eyelashes three times now. I also had two and three levels of growth initially, but the latest lash regrowth, has been only two levels. My lashes seem straighter than they were before chemo too. Have you experienced that?
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nbhgirl, your hair will grow back! Took several weeks after chemo finished and then it really started coming in.
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oh my gosh.... my right eye has lost a lot of its lashes too - and the left has more! How crazy that so many of us have that pattern goin' on!
I have Loreal Lash Booster on my shopping list for today. I have fake eyelashes that I wore for pictures (when healthy) a couple of years ago - just haven't broke 'em out and put them on yet. Suppose I will if there's any occasion I want to look better for
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I'm new here - first post - Finished Chemo 9 weeks ago and only have four more rads to go. I'll finish next Tuesday. Then Wed. it's onto a four day trip to the mountains to catch some Fall color. A kind of celebration treat.
Anyway, I have a very short head of hair that until recently was growing longer on the sides than on top. I did trim the sides so I didn't look funny and my wig didn't itch. Eyelashes and eyebrows are growing, very little leg and arm hair. My hair on my head is so soft - I'm wondering how long before it gets some strength to it? And do any of you trim it to try to keep it one length as it grows? Does it come in the same color as you had before? Just a few ?'s
Sure hope by Thxg I have enough hair to go w/o a wig. That'll be about 31/2 months post chemo.
Thx for all the posts about your hair, I've learned a lot just by reading them.
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ECT: So glad to hear you are almost done. Are they putting you on any other maintenance drugs after rads are complete. I only ask because I know some have had difficulties with slow hair growth due to the use of these other drugs, which are varied.
That being said, in 3 1/2 months you could possibly go without your wig, but you may not want to if it's cold (if it's 65 out my head gets chilly and it's over 6 months since my chemo) and you are used to longer hair. Of course, there are hats with short hair! Also, my first inch of growth my hair came in this weird, white almost transparant color and the growth was very uneven, so I had my husband shave it down to a 1/4" and re-started my hair growth. My hair is in the 3"+ range but I got it "styled" about a month ago and she cut off more then I wanted her to (isn't that always the case?). So, I alternate between short hair and wig depending on the weather (not much of a hat person-I suffer from little head syndrome LOL).
Your fall trip sound lovely!!!
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ECT: I forgot to mention, I used to have very dark brown hair with a touch of grey, but it came in all grey with a touch of dark after chemo, so 3 months in, when I wanted to go "topless", I bleached it until I could dye it to it's original color. Aslo, I used to have fine, wavy hair and it grew in course, frizzy and kinky!
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pics of 3 months after chemo and 5 1/2 month after chemo
5 1/2 months...this was AFTER I tried to dry it straight!
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I guess I'm the oddball here...I LOVED being bald!~!~! NO SHAVING anywhere, and a simple wash 'n go with the head. That said, I now have a perm to replicate the VERY curly/soft hair that grew back in (and like some of you, got MEGA compliments, and my bf's father could not keep his hands OUT of my soft hair, lol) after having straight hair all my life. I would've hated a wig, but everybody is different and needs to do what makes THEM comfortable~! I will continue perming my hair to keep that curly look, but WOWWW, nothing like the VERY soft curly hair that came back after chemo. ~juli
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everett78 your hair looks great those pics are very encouraging thanks for posting them. What was your hair like before chemo?0
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