Hello - I hope the community is well in spirit and enjoying the arrival of spring colours. I feel vain writing this, and tell myself to keep perspective....yet I find myself continuing to write. I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer (grade 3, ER -ve, HER2 +ve) and completed chemo 6 months ago (4 cycles of EC and 4 cycles of Docetaxel/Pertuzumab/Transtuzumab). I lost my eyelashes, eyebrows and hair. Approx 3 months after chemo ended my eyelashes began to regrow and now, 6 months after chemo they are fully in place! I have approx. 11 hairs under 1 arm (that I see as a bonus - less to worry about). My eyebrows have grown back very thinly and not in a full arc - I had thick eyebrows and I am worried that they will never return to their original density and strength. My hair has been growing back on my head, however the crown area is quite sparse, so much so that I continue after all this time to still wear a hat. I had bought wigs but found them very uncomfortable even with liners - and I'd bought top range ones (a ridiculous amount of money that I wish I'd given to MacMillan instead). My hair and my eyebrows were my defining features. I am overall very grateful that I have had an "easy" journey through cancer and treatment and have had a fabulous team of medical people around me and I've remained strong and positive through it all....yet today I feel that a thread is being pulled and the strength I have had is beginning erode - all because of how I am feeling about my eyebrows and hair. Chemo finished 6 months ago....my toenails are about to fall out too and I am losing my fingerprints. May I ask please, has anyone else out there had the same drug regime please and how did your hair respond?
