Hello All
so glad I found this thread as I’ve been wondering about it - been sprouting a ‘beard’ albeit a very downy one since FEC 4 and taken to gently shaving it. Im on week 4 of Rads and I am now on Tamoxifen and have been for a month, just praying the chemo has set it off and it will taper off on its own. Until then will the LadyShave will have to suffice!!
Leigh
oh me too. How glad I am for internet forum’s so I can quickly check to see what the hell is going on. I am very fair but this is FUR. I’m glad to hear so many people had mentioned it was chemo related and not hormone therapy related. I have made an effort to joke my way through the baldness, the lack of eyebrows and eyelashes and the general physical problems but somehow this facial hair isn’t funny however I look at it. Why is that?
Hope this to be another passing phase on the BC road…
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Sorry to be a pessimist but I have sec now and the only good thing is furry face gone with chemo again, my face has been very fluffy for 7 years since finished chemo 2004 & I was plucking dark ones out of chin daily! Horrid. The times I’ve said to oh my most important & never to be without are tweezers.
Please don’t despair though somewhere I’ve seen a cream you can get from doctors others have posted about it on the forums, it either prohibits or slows down the hair growing.
Jo xx
I bought a little facial epilator by Emjoi from QVC when my facial hair started coming back. I’m post meno and have more problems with facial hair now than when I was having periods! It used to be just top lip before, now it’s under my neck and chin and I’m dealing with it every day. An absolute pain of the first order.
Well at least the thread subject name made me laugh! Which is more than can be said for the hair on my face, I’m starting to look like a werewolf, I wonder if the woodlanders would mind if I had a little are in the woods to hang out? There seems to be quite a few of us, perhaps we could form a pack!
And do you know what really p***es me off? I have hairs growing on my big toes that are longer than the hair on my head! what is that all about!!!
Hi ragamuffin - thanks for mentioning the cream, does anyone know what it might be?
Daisy xx
I got blonde fluff on the side of my face before my hair (head hair is 2cm now) started growing. I just took a razor to it twice and then it started subsiding on its own. I’ve got sensitive skin and can’t use depilatory creams.
No beard, thank goodness.
hi ladies,
yes I have the blonde downy fluff thing going on too lol, maybe your body just over compensates for the hair loss,
or maybe we are just going to have a harsh winter and need to keep our face warm lol,
I am really not that bothered by it, just happy to have hair,
all the very best to my fellow fluffy comrades love Liz xxxx
I had this too - started to look for jobs in a circus as a bearded lady for a while! 
Things have slowly returned to normal and my whiskers have almost gone now. My GP said that the body over compensates when hair starts to return after chemo but it should regulate itself on its own.
Nymeria x
Hi fellow fluffy here.
I asked the doc about it when I went to see him on Monday. I’ve been on Tamox for two and a half years and now Exemestane for a year. I didn’t have chemo.
I noticed my white fluff ages ago and wasn’t too worried about it but last week I took a close look in my magnifying mirror and I had dark hairs all over my cheeks. Only fine ones. I can’t believe that my friends have let me walk about looking like a werewolf!!!
Anyway I use an epilator for my legs and bits so I decided to have a go with that on my face. I did one side and it was so painful it made me feel ill, but I had to do the other side or I’d have looked even worse, bald on one side and furry on the other!!! Felt so sick I couldn’t eat my tea!!!
The doc said that it’s the drop in oestrogen which then gives an imbalance with the male hormone which we all have, that makes hair grow in places where ladies don’t want it.
The doc said laser hair removal but you can’t have it on the NHS and I would imagine it’s rather expensive. The good news is that the hair isn’t permanent it goes away when we stop hormone therapy.
Best of luck my furry friends.
Jan xx
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What a lovely posting. I am really upset because the facial hair etc is still sprouting and the head gets balder by the day. Not fair. I thought it would all go- you should have some good points from the chemo and hormone therapy. Anybody know a good brand of tweezers!!! Ibought some exoensive “mouse magic” by skin doctors(australian) and there is a cream that is supposed to discourage
growth. Don’t think it worked for me but I didn’t use it much pre chemo. Your posting made me look in the mirror not a pretty sight so I will slap some on!
Have n enjoyable weekend
Cackles
Hi everyone,
I have taken the scissors and trimmed my ‘downy’ side burns lol, decided against shaving or plucking in case they came back stronger, or black and stronger!!! Elvis is back in the building.
oh the joys, now I know how werewolves feel. xxxx
hello I finished chem on 17th December and have downy hair all over. So glad I am not the only one. Not sure how to get rid of it…hoping it will fade in time. Don’t want to cut or shave in case it comes back thicker or darker.
Shaving CANNOT make hair come back thicker or another colour - it’s an old wives’ tale. Hair is keratin that is dead and the only way you can change it is at site of the hair follicles, not along the dead shaft.
Shaving will make it feel blunter at the ends, that’s all.
Thanks for the info on the cream Norberte, I’m seeing my GP next week and will ask for some!
DG - you make me chuckle. I’ve got toe hairs bigger than my head hair, had to trim them with scissors!!! Hobbit feet!!
It seems my body hair has gone BOOOOOOM now and it coming back with a vengenance, i’m positive I wasn’t this hairy before.
hairy toes, hairy knuckles, underarm hair like Ninjas photo, hairy legs, hairy hoo-hoo!
I’ve got a bit of face fur too.
Why can’t it all divert to my bloomin’ head?!
Just call me Frodo El Kat! I’ve always been a bit hairy but this is ridiculous, my avatar is now of me NOT my cat!
Great post - made me laugh which i havn’t done for a while xx
Bleaching my side burns as I type. If it doesn’t work I’ll do the laser. In Oxfordshire where I live it’s around £50 for a smallish area per session, and it takes 6-10 sessions. My hair is dark but very fine so I’d hope 6 sessions would be enough. It’s painless and very safe, they say. I’ll be on hormonal therapy for years and years so I don’t expect the surplus hair to disappear very soon. I’m 42, I’ve had both breasts and ovaries out, and lost all my hair with the chemo and now I have a very short masculine hair do and too much hair around my ears. Anything that makes me feel a bit more feminine, or even more human like rather than monkey like is worth the money. I’ve also bought lots of lovely clothes and shoes this autumn, I really want to claim my femininity back from this horrible disease.