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sunshine, love the pic ... but my hair is WAAAAY too curly for that hairstyle! I could have done that style with my pre-chemo hair, which was naturally straight as a stick. But there's no way now--not until this curl grows out. I've read that it can take up to a year to lose the curl.
otter
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Ahhh... let's just hope it stays put!!
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Hey Otter...mine is also very very very curly ...but I found out that if I use a blow dryer when it's still wet it really helps tame the curls...It's amazing how straight it is on top with just a few minutes of blow drying...I was happily surprised...
Susan I'm keeping my fingers crossed that itSTAYS!
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Susan, I am 11 weeks out and I think you have more hair than I do. It's hard to tell, mine is silvery / Blonde, and I wondered if I died it darker if it would look like more!!! LOL. Anything to have the appearance of more hair!!! LOL.
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I'll take curls, straight, or grey hair at this point... ok so yeah there are many little grey's coming in, but I'll take it!
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Hey Lori....Your pictures are great!! And NO, your face is not fat. Keep at those teensy weensy cuts and your hair will be long before you know it. I've cut mine 3 time and texturized it and it's perfect now. I don't want it to be different although I noticed the curl leaving with every cut. The top crown is straight now, and stands up soooooo nice.
For those who have not heard...Annie Camel Hair (she was such a riot) passed away. God Bless her family and keep them strong!
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In my mind, I always called her Annie of the Camels.
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Susan, you look beautiful!
Sunshine, I like my hats !!! (picking hat out of ditch) I've always been a hat person but now I can wear a hat without flattening my hair LOL!
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Hello everyone! I am going to start my first treatment next week....and this is all so scary for me. From what I am reading I will loose my hair around day 14. I complain about my hair daily, but I will miss it! I just have to hope that when it grows back it will be a little thicker than it is now.
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NancyD...I found it fitting ti call her " Annie Camel Hair" being on the 'Hair' thread. Whatever her problem was for the day, she was a different 'Camel'. So interesting she was.
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Hi Ladies,
I just read this entire thread and I can relate to all the complaints! I am 10 months out from chemo and 2 months out from hereptin and I have short curly dark hair which used to be shoulder length straight blonde (dyed) hair. I, too, have been using a flat iron every day since it was long enough and it does make a difference in teh style. I have had two haircuts (trims) and if I don't blow dry and straighten my hair every day I end up looking very matronly. I find the flat iron to be a godsend. I usually just run it through my whole head then use a little hair paste to give my hair a spiky look on top with slicked back sides. I actually get compliments on it when I go out! My eyelashes are thinning for the third time which I hate! I have had to pencil in my brows ever since chemo started because they are lighter and thinner then they used to be. I would like my hair to straighten out on its own but until then the flat iron is staying put on my bathroom counter!! I would post a picture but I haven't been much of a shutterbug lately. Have always hated having my picture taken, but maybe I will have one of my sons take one that I can post. Hang in there everybody.....BTW, Artsee, do you recommend chemical straightening of the hair?? Suze :-)
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Suze, on chemical straightening - I have a horror story to tell. My sis and I had very thick, naturally curly hair and hated it. 2 weeks before her senior year of high school, I straightened my sis's hair. It started to fall out in clumps -- was a BAD batch of solution. Off to the ER as she had burns on her scalp and forehead, not severe, but very ugly looking. From that point on, neither of us tried any kind of straightening product except hair mousse or gel.
I am 3 months since last chemo and all of my head is covered with very soft, part gray and part brown hair. No visible curls yet, although I looked like little orphan Annie before when hair was wet. Did you find a trim around the ears and neck helped it grow faster? I like short hair, wash and wear type of style (before)...
If you get a round brush, like a big bottle brush, you can blow dry and roll the brush around hairs to make them straighter. Start at the bottom and work upwards.
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unique Hey girl you look cute in your hats!!!! and you look cute without them also!
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Oh yeah about the neck hair... ugg.... it's pretty unruly , kinda like a orangutan's butt! I was thinking of shaving it... butt... aha... not sure I should.
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susan You make me giggle....hehehe orangutan's butt that's good!
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Orangutan's butt! LOL!!
Susan, you crack me up!!!
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LeftyakaNancy,
Thanks for the tip on chemical straightening! After that story I will definitely let nature take it's course. I'm sure my own hair will straighten soon enough. Suze
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smile2006 So sorry you have to go thru this! Loosing my hair was hard, but I have a great family that supports me. I found a wig I liked and some cute scarves and I survived!!! ...I'm 24 weeks out of chemo and 15 out of radiation... You will do good!
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My wig was great too and nice and warm during the winter months when I was bald! Losing the hair is very traumatic but it is fine... and as you grow it out marks how each day you are further and further from chemo!
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LOVE LOVE LOVE my baby flat iron! I went to get my roots done, to wash away the blonde
and the salon just unpacked a shipment of the cutest little flat iron. I was so excited that I came home and straightened my locks! Ladies...thank you for the advise! 0 -
Thank you for the positive thoughts....I try to have those! But it seems I stay strong all day in front of friends and co-workers but break down in the evening. I have not told everyone...just really get tired of being asked "how are you" . I know they mean well.....just really try not to think about it. I know this is preventative for me....and I should be very greatful, but I dont think any of us should be going through this. My heart breaks for everyone who has to go through this! So Kudoos to all of YOU! I am just beginning.....I cant wait to talk about my hair growing back and finding that flat iron....CONGRADULATION!
Hope all of you have a wonderful weekend. It is Gasparilla here in Tampa, FL and it is suppose to be beautiful tomorrow.
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Shari, what is Gasparilla? Good luck w/ your treatments! Soon it will all be a memory....
I'm very sad about Annie. I always looked for her posts, and had no idea how sick she was. She will be missed!
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Hi Hare Wimmen!
Yes, what is Garsparilla? Pray tell!
I have gone another week and my hair looks exactly the same. Maybe it grew a little? Dunno.
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P.S. What the heck is a baby flat iron? I have always had curly hair so prolly won't try to straighten it. But what is it and how do you not burn your hair to a crisp?
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My friends told me my hair would grow back thicker and nicer after chemo. Why do people have this impression? Six weeks later, I just have the growth that came back during the Taxol, which is thin and nappy with much more gray than I ever had before. I think I'm just going to wear a wig from now on, at least at work. Does it tend to improve over time?
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Alicia- it's been 9 weeks and I'm right there with you. I do have about 1/4 in of very thin hair. I still feel shiny bald.
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Gasparilla was a pirate in the Florida Keys. They've created some myths and legends about him, and hold an annual festival, kind of like Mardi Gras, On the West Coast of FL in the Tamps area.
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Alicia, yes it does improve. I felt, as you do, that the initial growth was thin, but more came in after some time, and now, I do think it's thicker than before chemo. Certainly, it's curlier which can make it seem thicker. I'm about six months out from my adjuvant chemo (I also had neoadjuvant so I lost my hair twice), and I'm getting compliments on my short, curly hair like I purposely had it cut this way.
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Hey, everybody, it just takes awhile. Your hair follicles have been poisoned. So, they won't start making hair right away; and when they do, they're kind of slow about it. (Ever hear of the "whack-a-mole" game? They're afraid of being whacked again, I think.)
Once the real hair starts to grow back (the real hair, not that soft, fuzzy, colorless stuff you have at about 8 weeks post-chemo), it will speed up. I keep thinking mine is growing too slowly ... but, I've been shaving my neck where it grows down fairly low, and every morning I have good re-growth there. So, I know it's growing constantly.
If I get a chance, I'll try to take a pic of the curls on the back of my head... and post that pic with the same view taken in mid-October (18-19 weeks) and mid-December (28 weeks).
otter
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I know it's really hard to have patients when you are anxious, but the hair will come back fast and it definitely comes back thicker. After coloring it back to blond I could see by the 'outgrowth' how fast it actually did grow. Give it a good 9 weeks after last tx to come in with a vengeance.
Artsee
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Oh yeah about the neck hair... ugg.... it's pretty unruly , kinda like a orangutan's butt! I was thinking of shaving it... butt... aha... not sure I should.