Sorry girls I need a moan. I miss my hair, I do. It wasn’t particularly nice hair, it wasn’t long, I didn’t spend hours styling it, it was usually unruly, but I miss it. I know in the big scheme of things it isn’t particularly important but at the moment (chemo finished 5 weeks ago) I miss my hair. Maybe its the chemo finishing and the fact I am feeling better, and that it has started regrowing so now I have fluff on my baldy head - but suddenly I miss my hair.
I miss that feeling of the water pouring through it when I stand under the shower.
I miss the smell of shampoo.
I miss spending that extra 10 mins in the shower washing and conditioning it and feeling like I was pampering myself.
I miss running my fingers through my hair (had to get out of this habit after a near disastrous wig slippage incident).
I miss feeling my hair blowing in the wind on an autumn day.
I miss being able take off a jumper without having to stand next to a mirror (or a very good friend) to rearrange said wig - which will be standing straight on end.
I miss the fact it kept me warm at night - yes I know a scarf or hat can do the same, but I always end up waking up in the middle of the night with a roasting hot head, my hair did a damn good job of regulating my temperature nicely.
I MISS MY HAIR !
Come on hair, lets grow quickly please. 
Ahh - yes I remember those feelings. However, I did enjoy the feeling of running water on my baldie head and the warmth of the sunshine (I was bald during the summer of 2011)
But it’s growing back! It must be so hard for people who suffer permanent hairloss through alopecia. At least ours is side effect related. Here’s to it growing back sooner.
Nicola x
Hi VJ - it was strange, I was OK with having no hair while I was having chemo but it hit me about the same time as you, a month or so after I’d finished and I really missed my hair too. Hope it grows back soon.
Pauline xx
i miss my hair too. It has started to grow back slowly, role on bad hair days!
xx
I miss my hair too. Even though its been 13 weeks since i shaved it off i still get suprised occasionally when i catch my reflection in a mirror or a window. I hate my wig and long to have my long thick hair back. Oh to have another bad hair day!
I so agree with this! When I shaved mine off people used words like “handsome” which didn’t make me feel any better about it! I love my wig but after 4 hours it gives me a head ache so I spend most of my time bald.
I long to use shampoo - we have a collection as I still add it to the monthly shop. I always kept it short but when it comes back I will aim for shoulder length. I had to have a brunette wig as they couldn’t match my dark grey and I have loved that so I will be dying it when it comes back too.
I long just to go out without having to spend time adding boob, hair and painting on eyebrows!
Oh yes…I can identify with all these comments…my wig was lovely…it was so successful…no one knew I was suffering with BC…it wasn’t until I took it off in the summer…it was too hot…that anyone knew I had lost my hair and it was regrowing back…in my youth and teens my hair was curly…and I hated it…when I was old enough to have any control…I grew it long and it straightened out with the weight…then I lost it to cancer…small price I know but…it’s growing back…grey and CURLY!!!..I know I am ungrateful…I am glad to be cancer free at the moment…but I hate it!!!.._._I look in the mirror and see my nanna!!!..not good…roll on it growing back properly…it looks as if it’s been cut into lots of little layers so I can’t even get a small straightener on it!!!
I miss mine too, but now facing another winter without, I have started a hat collection - my cousin bought me a lovely grey felt one last week for my birthday, and for storage I put it on top of my ‘Jessie J’ wig (so called by my daughters as its a dip-dyed bob) and it looks fabulous, trouble is, I get too hot in a wig on its own,never mind with a hat on top, and can just see myself pulling of the hat with a flourish in a restaurant and the wig coming away with it lol ! (as happened in M&S when I tried on a hat last year) 
Chin up girls, lets hold our heads up high, ignore the ‘but at least your still here’ kind of patronising remarks - Handsome!! how did anyone think that was a compliment KahrenQ !! - and wait patiently for the day it comes back…
Hi VJ, I missed mine, it was the worst thing for me, I could disguise the mastectomy but not the head although I did also find my baldness strangely liberating, on the plus side my pubic hair has never grown back fully( sorry if that is too much info!!!) nor has any other body hair, the hair on my head though - another story - thick curly and grey! I tend to morn the loss of my long dark hair more than my breasts sometimes, so take heed, another couple of months and you will have another fine head of hair. One other downside to being bald, I looked like my brother!!!
Just catching up with this thread again, Great to hear that I’m not being mad and having shampoo longings on my own.
Milo you are lucky that none of your other hair has grown back - suddenly found I have hairy legs again - although very thin and fine I will admit, same with the armpits. Quite disappointed to have to get the razor out again!
And how does it work that while some hair is growing back more of my eyelashes and eyebrows have gone?? Why can’t they grow back - am sick of drawing on eyebrows. Particulary as I can never get them symmetrical and sometimes look like I am permanently surprised!!
Vx
VJ, I think everyone who has ever lost their hair through chemo has felt the same as you at one time or another. Even though my hair has grown back the right colour, not madly curly just a bit wavy, and looks pretty good, it’s not the hair I had 2 years ago. When I get my plait back, I’ll finally think I’ve got the better of this cancer. (And then I’ll probably get my hair cut, but then it’ll be MY decision and not cancer’s.)
Hi
Just echoing the same feelings as everyone else. I have finished chemo and have a good covering but you dont realise how long it needs to be even for a short hairstyle, if you know what I mean. Also this windy weather we are having is not too good for us wig wearers lol. Had to hang on to mine the other day in the school playground when picking up my little boy ( not a good place for it to fly off my head 
ha ha). xx
Glad to report the hair is getting there. Only a cm or so but at least my head looks dard again, still baldy in patches so hiding under hats/wig still but maybe in the new year…
Best news is that my eyelashes and eyebrows have grown back. Yippee, hadn’t realised quite how different I’d looked without them. Nice to have them back again, feel like this is a step in the right direction.
Hi VJ, I had to get rid of all my styling products ( and I had a lot of them to try and improve my fine hair) - it was just too much to see them all in my drawer and not be able to,use them.
i am just about to have my 4th FEC so I have a while to go before mine appears again
on the plus side nobody seems to know I have a wig, even my ONC had to ask if I had lost my hair!
so hot though!
kay x