Hi all,
Thank you for all the comments on my previous post - it’s greatly appreciated!
I’m half way through my radiotherapy and first round of chemo and luckily I’ve been blessed with hardly any side effects other than a bit of nausea and getting tired fairly early in the evening however I’ve noticed a lot of hair-loss in the last week - something I’ve been preparing for for a while now - but when I asked the radiologist if I’m able to shave my hair completely incase the radiotherapy mask no longer fits.
Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone know if it’s easy to get a mask recreated if I were to shave my head?
Im extremely grateful for the lack of any side effects so far but the hair-loss in specific areas that just keeps spreading in large chunks rather quickly is beginning to upset me.
Thanks in advance! :)
HI MaxW
oh good question and one best answered by your CNS when you go for the next session.
My late husband only lost a strip of hair around his scar during radiotherapy and it grew back very quickly once the treatment ended. It did grow in much darker initially but then in time went grey like the rest. I totally get though that its upsetting to suffer any hair loss.
I hope that your medical team can sort something out for you quickly.
love n hugs
Wee Me xx
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