Eyebrows :-)

My eyebrows and eyelashes fell out too. I drew mine in (badly) if I was going out otherwise I just went bare. Funny I found losing my eyebrows more distressing than losing my hair. No eyebrows meant nothing to frame my face which, to me, looked weird but it’s 6 months since treatment ended and they’ve all grown back though my hair is curly now rather than straight. 

Hi EP17,

thanks for getting in touch. 

Although I’m nowhere near the end of this treatment journey , I am hoping my hair grows back curly that would be great.  
brilliant that your hair and eyebrows have grown back.  Something to look forward too 

Lou x

Hi Lou

I think it was around the second cycle that my eyebrows got very thin. Didn't loose them completely. I am quite fair so it was not too noticeable. My eye lashes also started to go around the 2nd cycle- lower ones seemed to go first and then the upper ones went thin. They started to come back between chemo cycles but I lost them again post final chemo. From memory it was around 4-6 weeks post final chemo when everything settled. 

Jane

Hi Jane, 

thank you , I appreciate you sharing your experience. Every step of this journey is filled with some side effect from treatment , when you come to terms with one thing something else  happens . 

Glad to have a timeline for when eyebrows etc grow back   Got my fingers crossed !!. 

thank you Lou x

For me, I managed to hold onto about half of eye lashes when I completed my 4 lots of chemo, but eyebrows were down to a very minimal number. Then 2 weeks post end of chemo I lost all the eyelashes, and that’s when I really looked like a chemo patient, was quite upset. But mine grew back really quickly, 2 weeks later eyebrows and lashes growing back,

Hello Waidh,

That was a fast grow back !!, thanks for sharing.  Hoping mine grow back fast too :-) feel happier after reading other people’s stories thank you !!