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  • justmaximom15
    justmaximom15 Member Posts: 89
    edited February 2016

    Thanks everyone!!

    rainnyc - I've been highlighting and coloring several different shades of blonde for years. When I was very young my hair was very blonde and as I got older, it got darker.

  • Sloan15
    Sloan15 Member Posts: 845
    edited February 2016

    Kate- Mine is looking more and more like my regular hair color, too... grey! Haha. My hairstylist, trying to be supportive, said, "Well, at least you won't have to go through that awkward haircolor-growing-out-stage. It'll just come in grey!"

  • Birdie56
    Birdie56 Member Posts: 19
    edited February 2016

    Just a sort of recommendation to you ladies who may want to have some fun with this unwanted opportunity to wear wigs. I ordered a couple from www.sammydress.com for about $10 a piece and am amazed at the quality and fit of them. You do have to choose the wig in the only color they show it in and it arrives on a slow boat from China, literally, but with the price and free shipping it was a fun package of 3 wigs to receive! Here's one :) Take care sweet warriors!

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  • rainnyc
    rainnyc Member Posts: 801
    edited February 2016

    Sloan, how did you reply to your hair stylist? :)

    Birdie, that's a very cute wig. I like the way it frames your face. And fun to have three to choose from!

    We've been watching, on Amazon Prime, a very good mini-series about John Adams. Paul Giamatti plays Adams, and we just watched the episode that takes place at the Continental Congress, leading up the the Declaration of Independence. So of course most of the male characters are wearing wigs. At some point, DH leaned over and, pointing to Adams, said, "His wig looks a little like yours." I nearly slapped him!

  • octogirl
    octogirl Member Posts: 2,434
    edited February 2016

    So here are two pics from today, almost 14 weeks PFC.....back is definitely further along than the front...

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  • octogirl
    octogirl Member Posts: 2,434
    edited February 2016

    and for comparison, one from almost two weeks ago, 12 weeks PFC....

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  • biscuits
    biscuits Member Posts: 2,158
    edited February 2016

    Wow! What a difference just two weeks made. It's filling in nicely, Octogirl. I am almost eight weeks out and mine is looking very sparse, although my DH says he can see the start of some color

  • mvspaulding
    mvspaulding Member Posts: 166
    edited February 2016

    Hi all, I just finished my last chemo treatment this week so I thought I would come over to the hair thread. I did 4 treatments of TC. I shaved my head when it started to shed bad. I always had the annoying stubble though. It never got shiny head bald. I can see a little growth already. Is this normal? When you are posting pictures and saying PFC what does that mean

  • biscuits
    biscuits Member Posts: 2,158
    edited February 2016

    PFC means post final chemo...after your final treatment

  • mvspaulding
    mvspaulding Member Posts: 166
    edited February 2016

    Thanks, didn't know if it was first or last :)

  • Shopgal2
    Shopgal2 Member Posts: 594
    edited February 2016

    Octo your hair looks great! Wow it grow fast mum jealous of your dark color. Mine is mouse grey, but at least it's thick. I hope to dye it next month.

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  • Shopgal2
    Shopgal2 Member Posts: 594
    edited February 2016

    Octo your hair looks great! Wow it grow fast mum jealous of your dark color. Mine is mouse grey, but at least it's thick. I hope to dye it next month.

  • Sloan15
    Sloan15 Member Posts: 845
    edited February 2016

    Octogirl - Wow, it looks great! Pfft, and you were worried, remember? I was just telling my husband today that i am so thankful my hair grew back. I think it would have beaten my spirit if it didn't grow back. How did you get yours to come in so dark and mine came in so grey? Haha.

  • Duzy
    Duzy Member Posts: 65
    edited February 2016

    Octogirl, looks great it grew in so much in 2 weeks. Gives me hope I am at 12 weeks and hope mine grows just as much in the next 2 weeks. It seems to be very sparse in the front by my hairline. Are you still wearing hats or wigs? justmaximom15 yours also is coming in so well. I just can decide when I have enough coverage to feel comfortable going out in public without a hat. I do wear hats more know that I have some hair showing underneath. Italychick you hair looks great for 8 months.

    Looks good everyone. Love seeing the pictures.

  • octogirl
    octogirl Member Posts: 2,434
    edited February 2016

    Thanks all for the kind words about how much my hair is growing. In truth, when I compared the two pics I was amazed how much it has grown...partially because the back is growing fastest, and I don't see that in the mirror each day...but yeah, I was worried, and yeah, Sloan, I deserve all the 'I told you sos' everyone gives me :-)

    As for grey vs dark, I had *NO* grey hair before chemo (and never colored it. I will admit to a bit of false pride about it)...so it is all relative. It does look like its old color in back, but I am still convinced the front will grow in grey. But, even if it does, PARTY TIME!!! I have hair!!! Woohoo! :-)

    Duzy, I am still wearing hats and scarves (mostly hats). I never did get a wig, which I sort of regret. Didn't realize how sick I'd be of hats and how wearing them all the time, even in winter, makes me feel like 'cancer girl'. However, my plan is to go hatless as of March 1...not long now!

    Octogirl

  • Sloan15
    Sloan15 Member Posts: 845
    edited February 2016

    Octogirl- Hatless starting March 1. You go, girl! Yay!

  • KateB79
    KateB79 Member Posts: 555
    edited February 2016

    Octogirl, looking great!

  • rainnyc
    rainnyc Member Posts: 801
    edited February 2016

    Awesome hair, Octo!

    Sunday morning hair check: Does anyone remember the '70s? Specifically, shag haircuts, which were uneven and sort of messy by design? I never had one--I was always of the long, straight hair, parted in the middle school--but I remember them looking cute on rail-thin 14-year-olds with naturally curly hair.

    I think I have a shag cut now, a short one. It's not quite so cute tinged with gray on a not-so-rail-thin 50-something. I have picked a vertebra at the back of my neck and basically decided to trim anything that grows past it until everything is more or less the same length. At some point, I'll try the flat-iron and see what happens.

    And there is definitely a bride of Frankenstein streak at the top of my forehead as well as in front of one ear.

    But on the bright side, there is hair!

  • HappyHammer
    HappyHammer Member Posts: 985
    edited February 2016

    El_Tigre- my lashes and brows have fallen out several times since starting treatment. Last time they didn't ALL fall out so maybe they are getting into a more reg growth pattern? I read that happens

    Justmaximom- it really IS filling in. Awesome!

    Italychick- your hair is beautiful- so thick! AM hoping for "wash and wear hair" when it all grows back in- Herceptin is slowing the process. ugh!


  • tjh
    tjh Member Posts: 272
    edited February 2016

    I was a bicentennial graduate and wore my hair in a shaggy haircut most of the way through HS. Junior and senior year I had it "frosted". Today I was walking out of the grocery store and the wind really messed up my hair...it was great!

  • Duzy
    Duzy Member Posts: 65
    edited February 2016

    Octogirl - March 1st YEAH not far away. Good for you.

    I might by April but we will have to see how much more hair grows in.

    Have a great week everyone and good thoughts about hair growth

  • mvspaulding
    mvspaulding Member Posts: 166
    edited February 2016

    so would you all say it will take on average 3 months to have filled-in significant hair? I had my last TC treatment of 4 on Thursday last week.

  • Peachy2
    Peachy2 Member Posts: 319
    edited February 2016

    Hi mvspaulding! My last treatment was November 6, so a little over three months. It took a month for real, dark hair to start growing. Though I have hair enough to cover my scalp, the first hairs to grow in are 1 1/2" and the hair that started later is much shorter. I just had my first "I'm out in public and don't have my wig" stress dream last night. I will be wearing it for a while longer. My brows and lashes are doing great, though! (RevitaLash rocks!)

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  • mvspaulding
    mvspaulding Member Posts: 166
    edited February 2016

    Thanks Peachy2, that gives me more of an idea of what to expect. I like your color, mine that is growing in looks light grey right now, and I never had greybefore.

  • Peachy2
    Peachy2 Member Posts: 319
    edited February 2016

    I have a little more gray than before, and more than shows in the pic. What is really surprising to me is that the rest is almost black. My hair has always been medium to dark brown.


  • KateB79
    KateB79 Member Posts: 555
    edited February 2016

    I'm a blondish-grayish sewer rat right now, but I don't care. I'm all about this hair. It's so SOFT!

  • SoCalGrl
    SoCalGrl Member Posts: 59
    edited February 2016

    Peachy2 - You are a doll! You look great with the short hair!

    I went wigless to my MO appointment the other day. I thought of it as a test run. For some reason I had a really hard time with it - more than I thought I would. I sat in the lobby convinced everyone was staring at me and I had to fight back tears. Going wigless is emotional! I admire those of you that are rocking it without one. I'm aiming for summertime.

  • Peachy2
    Peachy2 Member Posts: 319
    edited February 2016

    SoCalGrl, you are as sweetheart. I am aiming for summertime as well, and am sure I would have the same feelings that you did if I went without the wig. You're ahead of me too!

  • Shopgal2
    Shopgal2 Member Posts: 594
    edited February 2016

    hey ladies I tried a cute stretchy headband on my 10 week pixie today and got lots of compliments from my radiation team. Plus when I went into the changing room today I was complimented by a patient that said she loved my thick regrowth. She took off her hat and then I was jealous of her dark hair. Just goes to show that we think we actually don't look good during our regrowth cycle and we actually do. I sometimes think I am my worst critic. After all I am just happy I have hair. I'll take what I can get, mouse grey, kitten fuzz, or even weird cowlicks...it's all good.

  • lisaj514
    lisaj514 Member Posts: 289
    edited February 2016

    I actually got the most compliments I've ever gotten when my hair was white and so short. My hair was not very comment worthy before I guess. Here's a hair collage. First picture is before obviously, then 3mo pfc, then 6 months (after first trim) then at 1 yr. yup it came in very gray and I'm keeping it gray. I get compliments on the color. I colored before so didn't know how gray it was until it started coming in natural color and I was like OMG! But I liked it, most days. I'm "only" 55 and totally white/silver now. But now gray is the new in thing. I have naturally curly hair and it came in very curly but that was normal for me but now at almost 2yrs pfc (in April) it's getting straight? Never had straight hair before. Surprises at every turn with this diagnosis. "enjoy the process. You get to try new hairstyles with the wigs and then the rgrowthimage


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