Hair today, gone tomorrow

Hi Tiger

This may be a little late . . .  try putting one of those little sieves in the plug hole!  I found it was a great help, as was wearing a heavy duty hairnet at night, so that I didn't wake up to a bed full of hair!  Your comments about your roots hurting brought back memories for me - no one tells you how painful it might be!  I gather that only 50% of people suffer pain on losing their hair - we were just unlucky!  On a lighter note, I was surprised how quickly my hair grew back after chemo - and it's really thick now and in beautiful condition, never having been coloured/straightened/overheated!

Hope your second lot of chemo goes well - are you on carbo/taxol?  I used to console myself with the thought that if I were being ill, the chemo must be doing its job!  

Good luck for Monday

Hugs, Kate xx

HI, my hiar is growing back now. I remember the pain tooand the hair loss. I did get a really fab wig, which I am still wearing.My hairdresser ordered it and cut it for me. She was trained by Trevor Sorbie. The website is www.mynewhair.org it gave me the confidence to go out and about and back to work. It was so good I got another one in a different colour. Hair does grwo back quickly.

Take care Tiger xx

i shaved mine completely.. its less traumatic than watching it all go down the plug hole... i know its tempting to TRY to hold on to it a little longer but once i got over the fact that it was gone i just got on with it.... i cut up one of the wigs and sewed them into baseball caps.... and done that for a while... but mostly i just went "g.i. jane" i am a hairdresser and so is my daughter she shaved it for me, it will grow back, i found having no eyelashes and eyebrows worse than no hair... i know strange eh? i drew on my eyebrows with a brown eyeshadow... much better than a pencil as its softer and not as obvious

good luck with your treatment

liz xxx

Hiya Tiger

I too had horrible pain when my hair fell out, but got a great steroid liquid from the GP called Betnomethasate, I think - it got rid of the pain instantly.

I can confirm Kate has terrific hair and will be seeing her soon to reconfirm this!

All the best with your chemo.  Once it's over, in many ways it's a rebirth - lots of nice, as opposed to vile, milestones, including the incredible thrill of your hair regrowing!

Tiger- it must be so hard for you but luckily you have all these wonderful ladies who have been through it for support!

I would never imagine you would have pain through losing your hair.  At least once its gone I guess the pain is over?? I love the idea of wigs, sounds great just changing hair with your mood...........brunette day or blonde day!! lol xx  Stay strong xx