Eyebrows & Eyelashes

Can someone please tell me that my eyebrows and lashes will soon start growing back. I finished Chemo on 24th July. Hair on my head is really starting to come back - I have a full covering it is just the length that I now want but even that seems much slower than normal. I think I have one or two lashes starting to peek through but I just want to look normal again and without the brows and lashes I look like I have had cancer!!

I am going on holiday in three weeks so can someone please tell me I will have them by then.

I am currently undergoing rads but don’t think that should hunder any regrowth?

Thanks to all.

Lesley

Hi Lesley,

I started E-CMF in May, my eyebrows and eyelashes remained perfectly intact until, bizarrely, I switched from Epi to CMF!! I literally woke up one day and they were gone! I remember looking at myself in the mirror, realising there was something different about me but being unable to put my finger on it. I was horrified when I twigged as my face looked bare!

Anyway, I was virtually eyebrow and eyelash less for about 2 weeks all told. I had about 1 lash top and bottom and that was it! I started wearing black eyeliner on my top lid and oddly no one actually noticed! Anyhoo, about 2 weeks after their disappearance they remarkably reappeared! Now they are back with a vengence and thicker and longer and more lucious than ever before. Hurrah!!!

So, I reckon yours are prob on their way back as we ‘speak’! Before you know it they will suddenly be there again, and you’ll be amazed at how quickly they’ll grow!! Mine went from nothing to full-on in literally a couple of days, and I really hope yours do too,

Please keep us posted on their progress and have an awesome holiday!

Take care,

Kelly
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Thanks Kelly. You have really cheered me up.

Every morning I look in the mirror and nothing, I then turn the mirror to the magnified side and after the initial horror!!, I start examining again but still nothing. I will hang on to what you said and hopefully one day soon, and preferrably before I go on holiday, I will awake to find I look semi normal.

Take care
Lesley

Hi Lesley,

Like Kelly I was on epi /cmf and when mine went they reappeared within 2 /3 weeks and when they started to grow they grew fast so keep checking the mirror,one morning soon they will be there

Hi Lesley,

Mine grew fast too. Keep checking that mirror.

Had my first hair trim today. Not a lot cut off but it was lovely to have enough for a trim albeit an expensive one for the hair cut off!

Margaret