P.s. It took a week from ordering.
Kathryn, I think Iāve managed to send you pix.
Hi Melia yeah Iām getting used to baldy look! Just as well itās not permanent but wig going to be a def for me i think x hope your hair hangs in there for you the dryness is awful isnāt it I got that more or less within week of first fec!
Mishy, Kathryn if yous do get wigs take a pic of how your hair was before you had it cut and heāll copy it.
Hiya I didnāt get the pic but my email address is kamelia3011@yahoo.co.uk thatās really quick nice to know! I best get saving just incase. Xx
By the way Kathryn. My adult daughter has a sick bug too. Too late for me to delay as 8 days since last one. ?
Terrified of catching it. ??
Hope you donāt catch it, there is nothing worse than a sickness bug especially when having treatment x
Day 4 and feel ugh! Wish this would go away!!! Hate being ill such an inconvenience
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Second daughter has the bug nowā¦ up half the night cleaning up sick! So glad no chemo today as I couldnāt have managed with sickly kids on top. I swear someone is filming my life and watching it like an episode of eastendersā¦ so unlucky at the minute. Be really careful from day 10 angela when your bloods drop think thatās when I picked up my infection. Hope you feel a little better soon mishy xx
Just finished chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer ! Managed to keep most of my hair by using the cold cap, noticeably thinner but still look like Iāve a good head of hair ? ! X
Does anyone know if I were to shave my head really short, if they would still let me use a cold cap? Or is there a limit to how much hair you can have? Just wondering as itās really starting to fall out and go patchy this end. Wondering if I should just shave it off? Xxx
They wonāt let you cold cap once you shave I had to as mine was so patchy and thin I looked like Golum so I shaved for my sanity the nurse on chemo unit said you canāt cold cap of no hair to cover scalp as it will get freezing burns, hope that helps
Good luck to anyone who is still hanging on to their hair!
Vicclo what chemo regime did you have if you donāt mind me asking. Iām having just the fec and I know thatās supposed to be harsher on the hairā¦ but so far so good! Congrats on keeping your hair xx
Vicclo what chemo regime did you have if you donāt mind me asking. Iām having just the fec and I know thatās supposed to be harsher on the hairā¦ but so far so good! Congrats on keeping your hair xx
Well last night after constantly picking lumps of fallen locks off the baby and feeling that I was walking around balancing hair on my head, I said goodbye to it all. I got my hubby to pull out the clippers on it whilst my 5 year old danced around the room laughing at how āfunny mummy lookedā! After the shave I can see where the cold cap had sat and where it hadnāt quite been fitted properly. The bits where I had lost hair and gone bald were around the sides and back of my head. I was resembling something of a monk with a dodgy 90ās undercut. I can see where it has thinned out a fair bit on top but reckon that perhaps if the cold cap had been a bit bigger then I may have got away without losing so much. Anyway it gave my 5 year old a good giggle and my hubby says I look like Angelina Jolie now (he really does know the best things to say!) so Iām just gonna go with it. However now I am thinking I perhaps should have waited a few days and got a wig ready beforehandā¦ Oops! Nevermind! Now where did I put my hats?..Xxx
Hi KBomb you did the right thing I know I felt better after I shaved I couldnāt bear watching my lovely hair just dropping out in front of my eyes so now itās gone its one less thing to worry about x yeah snap about the wig too! I need to get me one of those ASAP 
Melia you lucky thing hang on in there you might be one of the lucky ladies!!!
The Fec certainly took my Barnet thats for sure 14 days after first one xx
Sorry to hear youāve lost your hair kbomb. Iāve managed to keep my so far after two fec. I agree about cap size. I was quite insulted when my chemo nurse said I needed a large cap covered by a medium. I never thought of myself as having a particularly large head. ? Iām glad I went with it though as it seems to be working.
Iām sure youāll rock the Hollywood film star look well. ?
I picked up my real hair wig last week and absolutely love it. I went to the look good feel good session yesterday and even the women there didnāt know it was a wig. Iāve been wearing it even though Iāve lost no hair itās that gorgeous. I had my hair cut really short before chemo to ensure the best fit for the cap so the wig is giving me back my identity.
Hi, I started THP chemo in may, used the cold cap through all 4 cycles and my hair has only slightly thinned. Iāve just had my first of 2XEC cycles, used the cold cap again but all Iāve heard is bad things about EC and FEC making hair fall out!!! Has anybody else had this drug regime and kept their hair after the change of drugs? Thanks, Skye x
I kept a good covering of bob length hair through 3 x FEC and 11 x weekly paclitaxol. I agree with cap size - Iāve got a small head (wear a childās riding hat which my daughter outgrew when she was 8!) but I think they ended up with a large cap and medium cover as it gave a better fit.
2 different chemo nurses had different approach to firing. The first cooked the cap first then put it on ā¦ the hair that I lost was all from this one. The next nurse put it on at room temp then cooled it on my head. It gave a much tighter fit and I had no more significant loss.
My hair thinned pretty evenly all over, no big patches. It was pretty thin on top but a clever comb over pony tail covered that!
Hair continued to grow through the rest of treatment and I had a good 2 or 3 inches of new hair at the end xx
Riversdawn I didnāt realise the cap could be put on differently, I was under the illusion before cold capping that it would gradually warm to my head which I thought wound be much kinder not.only for my hair but the shock my body gets getting me head Instantly frozenā¦ seems a much kinder way to do it that way. Donāt think Iāll bother to ask to change methods now though as the instant head freeze seems to.be working for.my hair xx
Arenāt the look good feel good really nice you get to meet others in same situation x
Itās a confidence boost as well x the goody bag is lovely
Yesterday I used the make-up as I was looking rubbish and everyone commented on how good I looked so yeah well worth it
If you do lose your hair like me (fec round 1)make up and nice scarf tying makes a difference
The kylie look for scarfs is really classy looking go on pinterest for different tips xxx