Hair Hair Hair - Another question
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Shopgal, I've also had brows fall out. I think it's just that normally, they're on different cycles to fall out--as hair does, normally. But because they all come back at once, lots of them fall out at once. Maybe because they never get too long so are on a shorter cycle? Mine never fell out at once, though; they just got patchy. So far, lashes are hanging in (fingers crossed).
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I lost all eyelashes and brows quite suddenly after taxol, but only the once, and they grew back quite quickly.... just as I was perfecting the smoky eyeliner look!
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Watching the State of the Union address, and thinking that the President and I have roughly the same hairstyle.
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OMG, that is so funny Peachy! I was watching thinking I wished I already had that much hair! :-)
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my lashes fell out three times I think. Brows only once. I was grateful for eyeliner lol
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My eyebrows made it through chemo, then most came out a month later and after 5 months have only come back a little. I never needed eyebrow pencil before, but, now, I am having to use one. I hope they still come back, but it has been over 5 months. Eyelashes came back, but not as thick as before. It is a wait and see game.
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peachy - I was thinking the same thing! Haha
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LOL @ Peachy2! Until my front hairline start filling in this week I said I had the same style as Dr. T from Boom Beach. If you're unfamiliar with the character, here's a pic
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My eyelashes fell out 3 times and my brows twice following chemo. My brows are still very bare, and after giving it a year, I just had them tattooed a week ago. My eyelashes are thick but too short to curl, so I'm trying Latisse now for them.
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Hi kpmacmill! I am in NH also - I live in Manchester. Your chemo is the same as mine, almost exactly a year earlier. I'll prepare myself for lash and brow shedding sometime in the next year!
justmaximom, that is a hoot! We have to laugh, and also be so glad that this is temporary.
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21 weeks PFC. I was panicked last week, convinced my brows and lashes were falling out, but that didn't happen. I have had haircuts shorter than this in the past (that I paid for!) and today my husband said - you don't look like a patient anymore. Best compliment in a long time!!
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Pennysgal - Looks fantastic!!!! OMG Im only 4 weeks PFC soooo looking forward to getting there!
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I agree, you look great!!!
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Thank you Mel and Sloan! My hair has always been very thick and curly/wavy - this new hair is supersoft and fine. I wonder if it will stay that way?
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Pennysgal - Well you look fabulous!!!!
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Pennsygal, your hair looks terrific!
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Pennnysgal, Looking good....and so dark. Mine is mostly white!
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May I chime in?
I lost a clump of eyelashes last week (6 weeks PFC), but it looks like they're already coming back. Eyebrows are another story: my natural hair color is strawberry blonde, and I've lost all but the blondest brows. It's pretty weird.
As for the hair: the hairline is coming. . . I can feel it!
This feels like a much bigger deal than it is. I like the advice to only check once in a while: I'm at 3x a day right now.
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KateB79, I love your quote in your signature!
Here's to eyelashes that grow back shortly after they fall out. I thought I'd dodged the Taxol bullet but lost almost all of mine at 5 weeks PFC and was saying "All I want for Christmas is eyelashes." And now I have something to put my mascara on. :-)
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pennsygal wow your hair looks so thick and beautiful.
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Pennysgal - That sounds like the best compliment ever! Your hair is gorgeous!
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Kate and Peachy - Aww I was a bit different, I got through the first lot of Chemo with eyebrows and eyelashes, I start Taxol and by week 3 I lost all my looong eyelashes and eyebrows. At 4 weeks PFC some eyebrows are coming back, but Im fair and I never really had eyebrows LOL but no sign of eyelashes?? Hair though is super slow around the sides and back can feel a slight prickle but not much happening. I'm thinking it is the Taxol that's done it more than the other.
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Shopgal: It is common on AC+T to have your lashes fall out again. I have read up to a year. I can't tell if my brows are going again yet. They do some thinner.
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I love seeing everyone's photos of their new hair! It gives me hope. These photos were taken 3 1/2 months post-final-chemo. That's a few weeks ago and now it's getting curly again. Wish it hadn't come back so gray!
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Here is wig #1. I like it, but wanted to find one that looked like me.
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and wig #2. really different!
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Nice photos, Queen Celeste! I like your thumbnail photo, too!
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Thank you all!
Queen Celeste, I love the gray pixie, and both wigs.
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pennsygal and Queen....hair looks great.
Interesting day at school...new student teacher in the copy room complimented me on my haircut...she said I wish I could go that short....I said Thank you and after my coworker quit choking when I left she explained my "haircut"....
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tjh, that's very funny! But if you are receiving compliments from college students who you don't know well, you know it looks good.
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