Of hair regrowth after chemo ....

"Bum trumpet"! Hahahahaha! Love it  

Seriously though, to make fun of a cancer patient, what a lowlife. 

And gosh, people display such a lack of imagination when it comes to women with short hair. If dark it's Sinead O'Connor, if blonde it's Annie Lennox!

Sending you hair growth vibes, across the oceans xxx

Right?!? If I must be compared to someone else I choose Servalan from Blane's7 ha haaaa

people do behave oddly and say some unsavoury things around people having treatment I've found, I do my best to ignore it, as I am doing my best to ignore what I am going through!  This experience is hard and isolating enough without letting such unpleasantness get to one! 

Sending healing vibes to you wherever you are! X

Blake's7 not Blane's7 ....

Hi I have the same problem.  TAXOTERE is a terrible drug and some people do not get their hair back.  I am desperate for hair to regrow.  I am terrified it won’t come back.

How long was it since you stopped chemo? I stopped in January, and I'd say it was only towards the end of month 3 that is has started to look like a head of hair and it is still very short, like a buzz cut. Eyelashes and eyebrows still not back though they are growing now.

Hi it is nearly 7 weeks since I finished chemo.  I feel devastated because from my research on line it says that TAXOTERE can cause between 6-15 per cent of people not to get their hair back.  I am worried I am one of those.  All I have is bum fluff.  And it is very fine.  Why didn’t the oncologist give me the facts!  They don’t care.

Do you know what chemo you had?

Hi 

My photos are on the previous page- the first one is about 8 weeks after chemo finished and that was exactly how mine was, bum fluff, and mine was probably about 6 months before I had the very short fluffy hair I did have cut, but once it was cut it was so much better. Even with 6-15% not getting their hair back, that means 85+ do, and there may have been other issues (age maybe one) with hair not growing back.  7 weeks is still early- have you seen any hair growth in the rest of your body?

I do agree though that we are  never told the full story at times, more drip fed...

Jo x

Hi

thank you so much for responding. I read your profile.  So you had only one lot of the dreaded TAXOTERE drug!  I haven’t noticed any other hair growing back yet!  Only the bum fluff.  I know it is only nearly 7 weeks but I am just really nervous.  I was told by a cancer hair specialist to make a concoction and rub it into my head.  I am waiting for an aloe Vera plant to arrive so I can make it. In addition to my hair problem the chemo has damaged my eye sight.  I am reliant on one eye as the other is pretty rubbish.  None of this easy, as like you I am also alone!  I am in my 60’s and life is so unfair it seems to me.  I had breast cancer 21 years ago and thought I was cured, but it came back last October.  I had a full mastectomy in November/December. And then 4 rounds of chemo, TAXOTERE!  It is unfair of oncologist to not inform patients of all the facts so that they can make their own risk assessment.  They make you sign these forms so that you can’t sue anyone,  as if I am worried about suing people.  I just want to be normal.  Having had a mastectomy and reconstruction I don’t look normal undressed but only I know that.  The hair thing is massive as it affects your identity and femininity.  I need to feel me again so I can try and have some sort of life.  Yes I know I should be positive and we have to try to be in this situation but you need honesty from professionals and I feel cheated!

I had FEC-T, the T is docetaxel, and I had three rounds of that. I also didn't lose all my hair, though it looked bald and I had already shaved it off ahead of chemo. It was very fluffy and not really like normal hair. It took probably 10 weeks for it to start looking like it would grow, it was really slow! I would try not to panic and give it another few weeks or so. I still looked very bald at 7 weeks.