Keeping your hair whilst on chemo - my experience on Taxol

Hi @etienne and welcome to the forum.

I can only speak from personal experience, I cold capped for 12 weekly Paclitaxel and lost two small patches bone my ears and shed all over. I had a lot of hair that I had cut into a pixie as I was told even with the cold cap I could still loose my hair. Another lady in the cancer unit was having the same regime and lost 50% of her hair with a cold cap.

Paxman have lots of information on [cold Cal website](https://www.cold cap.com), there is also a charity called Cancer Hair Care run by Jasmin who worked with Trevor Dorbie also offer lists of advice with caring for your hair whether cold capping or not.

This is a very useful thread to read

You can also search ‘cold cap’ in the forum and see what comes up.

As you say we are all different and tolerate the treatment differently, not to mention all our hair is different, so it’s hard to say what will happen.

Cold capping can be challenging especially for the first 10/15minutes, I tried paracetamol but realised that distraction worked better for me ( reading a book or watching something on my device). Making sure the cap is used correctly is also important ( see link above).

I wish you the best in your treatment.

:smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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