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  • Marion
    Marion Member Posts: 116
    edited January 2011

    57 weeks post-final chemo and it is still growing back curly!

  • Basia
    Basia Member Posts: 345
    edited January 2011

    I love all the pictures of everyones hair! You all look fantastic.

    I have my last tch this week, looking forward to the end of chemo and port removal. Port comes out in march. Yay!

    Nikola, you asked if I was doing anything for hair growth, I have been using an organic shampoo that is supposed to be similar to nioxin.

  • coni
    coni Member Posts: 181
    edited January 2011

    Hi ladies!

    I would like to join your club... I too am going through chemo, I was diagnosed at 31 started this journey in Nov of this year, just finished AC and now moving to taxotere, God willing I should be done April 1st, and I just cannot wait for my hair to come back...I'm very self conscious about wearing a wig, and even my scarf..but since I have to choose one or the other I'm using the scarf like lots of you wig is just too itchy...I have some stubble, left I'm praying I won't loose it with taxotere and hoping it will just grow...I know most likely it will fall but I'm trying to keep positive...since I lost my hair I really don't want ppl I know to see me like this....I have limited myself to immediate family. I get the is only hair, yet when they get a very short hair cut they complain is too short....is like well try being bald now....

  • Basia
    Basia Member Posts: 345
    edited January 2011

    Coni,I know how you feel about limiting yourself to immediate family. I was diagnosed in July '10 and haven't been out with friends  until this week.  I started TCH in october, I never lost all my hair, but I was shedding so much that I buzzed it in anticipation of losing it all.  It came out in clumps but within a month or so it started growing in again. so there is a chance you wont lose anymore hair on taxotere.  Hang in there it will be over soon, even though it feels like an eternity.

  • coni
    coni Member Posts: 181
    edited January 2011

    Thanks Basia, how long is your hair now? Did u finish your chemo? Like u I shaved my head cause the same thing happened it was clumps coming out but now I wonder if I would have shaved just really short like a #3 maybe I would have bit longer hair, honestly I think my brain erased that day out of my mind cause I cannot remember it at all, I don't remember my mom shaving my head. All I remember is that it took me a good two weeks for my husband to see me like that. I remember waking up way before him so I could wear a scarf or hat so he would not look at me... Lol now i go bald at home, but just around my mom and husband i don't know with other ppl I feel uncomfortable. Is weird Not even with my Sis, who I'm very close I don't like her looking at me like that. Let's not even go with dad or brother or in laws lol

  • toughmom38
    toughmom38 Member Posts: 21
    edited January 2011

    6 months PFC today.  Hair between 2 1/2-3" long.  I have had long hair (or at least to my shoulders) for most of my life.  Went out to eat with the family tonight and am finding myself SO jealous of people with long hair.  I keep reminding myself a year from now I will be one of those people again, but a year is SUCH a long time.  I know some people have decided to keep their hair short after chemo, but I am not one of them.  It has convinced me I will only get tiny little trims for a long time.  I am 39 years old and I think short hair makes me look old and I am not ready to be old yet.

    Jennifer

  • coni
    coni Member Posts: 181
    edited January 2011

    Basia what's the name of the shampoo u r using? I Bought the Nioxin but not the one that makes it grow just shampoo and conditioner, tell mento use the other once Chelonia done, don't know why? Also started taking 1000 biotin don't know if it will help, And everyday well almost I put coconut oil and olive oil on my scalp, also taking 3tsp of coconut oil and flaxseed... I'm trying it all lol I'm desperate for hair lol... Ofcourse my legs didn't loose the hair or my arms lol

  • Pinkprincess
    Pinkprincess Member Posts: 53
    edited January 2011

    I didn't want anyone to see me without my wigs and without having immediate reconstruction hair was the only thing I still had that made me feel girly. I after doing a/c and 6 weeks of taxol am getting my hair back and it is coming in pretty fast, I did lose all my lashes and most my eyebrows but am already getting lash growth still on Taxol for 6 more weeks. I posted on my facebook a few weeks ago a photo of me bald and without makeup after my lashes went and eyebrows were sparce. I felt I have let my friends in on my journey and even blog about it but only in my wigs-all made up and it wasn't quite a true depicition of what chemo was. So, I did and it was hard!!!! I am very much a girly girl and never a hair out of place but I am fighting a battle and I needed to share that it isn't a roses, but can be done :)

  • coni
    coni Member Posts: 181
    edited January 2011

    Toughmom38 I know what u mean, my hair was to my waist and took suck good care of it...oh how i loved my hair, I cannot wait to let it grow again and never ever will I take it for granted, sometime I use to get "bored" And u know sometimes u r having a bad hair day and u say oh I just want tk shave it off, I don't think I'll ever say that lol.... I have a wedding next April God Willing I want a bit of long hair I want to know how long is six inches to see if I can get extension worst case...



    Marion- ur hair is gorgeous so happy for you I'm hoping for same results for me in a yr from April!

  • coni
    coni Member Posts: 181
    edited January 2011

    Kcmomx3 - yeah u r so right , is quiet the battle we are all fighting, it's very hard cause is not only physical but emotional...if only they could come up with a way of keeping your hair, I find not having hair atleast for me makes me feel sicker..and wigs and scarfs don't really cut it. I just hope in the future they can help patients keep their hair.

  • moe0279
    moe0279 Member Posts: 100
    edited January 2011

    HELP! Got a question...any ideas for razor burn on my head..it's itching like crazy..I keep lotion on but it's not taking the itch away...I thought about getting some mens aftershave lotion, would this help?

  • Basia
    Basia Member Posts: 345
    edited January 2011

    Coni, this is the stuff I have been using, both the shampoo and conditioner: 

    http://www.amazon.com/Deity-Hair-Conditioner-8-oz/dp/B000N66D0C/ref=pd_bxgy_bt_img_b

    I bought it at a local beauty supply store, went in there looking for nioxin and the guy there talked me into this one instead.  My hair is still a buzzcut, maybe 1/4 inch long, but I have buzzed it a couple times, didn't like the funky chemo curls or fuzz that was growing in. I do have a nice even covering of my scalp, can't complain about it. Don't know how much the shampoo helped, but I figured it can't hurt. But my dad was on taxotere a few years ago for about a year and his hair was growing in beautifully throughout his treatment, and he did nothing to his scalp to help it along.  

    Like you, I had long hair before all of this, down to my mid-back and now I miss it so much.  Don't know what I am going to do with it as it grows in, figure it is going to grow slow while I am on herceptin, but at least it will grow enough that I can do a pixie cut or something like that in a couple months.   

  • coni
    coni Member Posts: 181
    edited January 2011

    Thanks I will go tomorrow to see if they have it at the natural store if not I'll order it :)

  • Fearless_One
    Fearless_One Member Posts: 905
    edited January 2011
    You ladies look so beautiful....   I am not so happy with mine.   Is there anyone who still wears their wig because they don't like how their hair grew back in?    I hate mine to the point I am thinking of going back to my wig.  Undecided
  • coni
    coni Member Posts: 181
    edited January 2011

    Moe why dont u try coconut oil , my skin was so flaky and itchy and around my piccline I have blisters and extremely itchy to the point it would bleed from scratching I put coconut oil all over my body before bed time my skin is sooo soft and not dry anymore and I try to put as much as I can around the piccline and where I've been able to put the itchiness is almost gone and so are the blisters, oh but u should see how bad the skin where is covered I mean is bad and sooo itchy but I can't uncover all the way :(

  • x-raygirl
    x-raygirl Member Posts: 97
    edited January 2011

    Moe- I agree with coni. I'm a big fan of coconut oil. Be sure to look for organic, unrefined and cold pressed. It's good stuff! Daiva

  • MBJ
    MBJ Member Posts: 3,671
    edited January 2011

    Ladies, you all look so wonderful with your cute, short hair!!!  Very chic!  Congratulations on being able to go topless!

  • moe0279
    moe0279 Member Posts: 100
    edited January 2011

    Thanks girls, I will pick some up tomorrow!

  • Shrek4
    Shrek4 Member Posts: 519
    edited January 2011

    I have sworn that no cutting utensils will ever touch my hair again. I had very long hair all my life, that is how I want it to be.

    BTW ladies, what I used (besides an old folk remedy) was a Romanian shampoo that can be bought online. I'm still using it.

     http://www.e-gerovital.com/Gerovital_Hair_Line-Regenarating_Shampoo-115.html

  • tideknott
    tideknott Member Posts: 10
    edited January 2011

    Hi Mellissa,

    I am a hairdresser and have had a lot of clients go through this just like us.  I highly recommend; Hydration therapy The Natural Answer to dry skin.

    202-270-7647 www.abikenatural.com

    I have ordered it for myself becuase I will be shaving my head on the 5th.  Started TC on the 21st of January.

    This is it's ingredients:

    Shea butter bases, highly penetrating raw natural oils, rich carrier oils, Aloe vera and filtrated water.

    This is its testiment on the side :Hydration therapy will penetrate the skins lower levels to give your body the moisture it craves.  It was formulated for severe dry skin ensuing from Chemotherapy treatment, radiation burn, eczema, psoriasis and dermatitus.  It stops itching by poison ivy and mosquito bites.  It helps heal strech marks, chapped lips, skin cracks and razor bumps.

    They also carry pure EMU if you need it.  

    Hope this helps,I have seen it work wonders on others and plan on using it for my attack! ithink I paid 30.00 for 8oz. and 50 for the EMU

    Beckie

  • Basia
    Basia Member Posts: 345
    edited January 2011

    After reading all the posts on coconut oil, I just ordered some. My scalp looks and feels very dry. Will continue o use the organic shampoo and conditioner, but will add the oil to the regimen.

  • coni
    coni Member Posts: 181
    edited January 2011

    Basia- I use the extra virgin organic coconut oil, for my skin I put just the coconut oil, I put it on before going to bed cause is oily and I don't want it in My clothes, but for my scalp I mix a bit of coconut oil and extra virgin olive oil, my scalp is not dry at all, I have read both help with hair growth...my husband says it's growing but if it is, is just growing very very slow but I do have stubble...and still going through the chemo so could be that. Before chemo I did use to use the olive oil with some other stuff on my hair and I had such gorgeous hair ppl would compliment at all the time it was so healthy, even after second round of chemo, when it was falling it was just so healthy looking, anyways I'm going today to look for the shampoo :)





    Moe - the other thing I do is take warm bathes with sea salt , help me relax, removes toxic from body, helps me with the aches from neaulasta and also helps with dry skin.

  • Basia
    Basia Member Posts: 345
    edited January 2011

    Coni, if the store doesn't carry the shampoo amazon sells it.

    I will try mixing the coconut oil with EVOO when I get the CO, which should be here Wed. I do most of my shopping online these days, hate leaving the house looking like this...just not comfortable in the wig or the pity stares I get when wearing the scarf.

  • moe0279
    moe0279 Member Posts: 100
    edited January 2011

    Oh basis, I completely understand the pity stares. I was sitting in the car at a store yesterday while my dh went in and this older women stared for at least 5minutes...then when her hubby came out he started waving at my kiddos. I just had to giggle because I know they were saying oh that poor woman with two young kids...I really just want to let people know that just because I have BC I'm not going anywhere!

  • Dominika
    Dominika Member Posts: 22
    edited January 2011

    Hi Ladies,

    I'm new on this forum :)

    I had my last chemo on 27 September  2010 but shaved my head completly on 01 November as my hair were very thin and uneven.

    Since then I'm trying to growth my hair, and quickly as I'm going on holiday on 25 May and really don't wanna wearing wig !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! soo , that's what i had a few days after shaving my head:

    Photobucket" " aland that's me now, almost 3 months later. There is still 4 months before my holls so I'm really hoping my hair will be longer then that lol ! :

    Photobucket

  • Dominika
    Dominika Member Posts: 22
    edited January 2011

    On the first pic i'm still without eyebrows and with like 3 eyelashes on my lower eyelid :)

  • Dominika
    Dominika Member Posts: 22
    edited January 2011

    Oh! and this is me 6 months before i was diagnosed, but I was felling somethings wrong, just was toooo scared to go to see doctor. Thank God I finally decided!! :)

    Photobucket

  • toni30
    toni30 Member Posts: 68
    edited January 2011

    Dominka: I really prefer you with the short hair - you have a great face. Keep it short!  We ended chemo at the same time and my hair is shorter than yours, but in the last 10 days, it has started to grow more quickly.

  • westiemom
    westiemom Member Posts: 86
    edited January 2011

    Dominika you look great!! You're hair is cute as can be, bet you'll have lots of hair by holiday.

  • islandmom
    islandmom Member Posts: 131
    edited January 2011

    Dominika:  You are such a beautiful young woman, the short hair accentuates you eyes.  You looks just as stunning with or without hair. Smile

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