Princess Kate Hair

Hi Tannith B welcome to the forum. I was thinking exactly the  same  and wondered if thats why we hadnt seen her for a  while. I dont know and i dont know that we will ever know but I imagine she has the finest hair stylists and make up artists at her disposal and good on her for appearing today she looked absolutely beautiful. 

Hi,

I have no idea what chemotherapy she is receiving but I also had adjuvant chemotherapy the end part of last year (carboplatin and pemetrexed) .

It made my hair thin but I was lucky enough not to lose it.

Wish I looked as good as her though  

Jo

Hi I too had adjuvant chemo {cisplatin and pemetrexed} 5 months ago. I was told you wont lose your hair with this one but it will get thinner. Ive had too much hair all my life - very thick hair. I did loose lots of hair but you'd never know. I looks just the same and I am loving having less of it.

It depends on which chemo she is receiving. I lost my hair on doxyrubicin then went on gem/tax and still No hair. I then started on dacarbazine and my hair started to grow back. I then started trabectadin and now have very curly hair. I've been on a two month chemo break since July as my bone marrow wasn't coping but I'm having my scan in a week or so then subject to the results I'll be in the treadmill again. The longest I've had stability or slight shrinkage is six months. 

How were you on cisplatin

did yiu get sick

Hi Spencerbear.

I didn't get sick at all thank goodness. I had had a lobectomy and surgeon was

sure he had got all the cancer out but to be on the safe side I was offered 4

rounds of adjuvant chemo (cisplatin and pemetrexed ) to make sure any cancer

cells that may have escaped during the op were dealt with. After the 1st round I

was fine - just a bit of constipation that wasn't very pleasant. My oncologist

suggested that I take laxatives the night before the next round. Apparently the

anti sickness pill they give you before the chemo is quite strong and can cause

constipation.

I took her advice and took laxatives the night before the second round and all

was well that time, no constipation. I was however totally wiped out that time.

No sickness just extreme exhaustion. I spent a lot of time in bed.  Oncologist

decide to carry on with the 3rd round, but she delayed that round for another 2

weeks, to give me time to recover. She said if it wiped me out that time we would

stop the treatment at 3 rounds. She said they were thinking 3 rounds for

adjuvant chemo is sufficient.

Seems she was right I had an Xray just after Christmas last year and had the

results back on the 10th of Jan. and all is well. I have to have a c t scan in 6

months.

Hope this info helps. Hope all is well with you. It is just amazing how much they

can do about cancers these days. They are so clever at tailoring the dosage for

each patient.