Hello everyone. Can I ask advice from your experiences please? Im due to have my 3rd FEC today and cold capped on 1 & 2 unsuccesfully! However I had my hair clipped really short three weeks ago and its actually grown a lot and is much thicker again (about 1/4 inch!). My big question is … do I give up on the cold cap this time round or do I continue with it and keep all this new downy hair.
Also, I am due to start ‘T’ for my next session and the oncologist has advised me to have this over 12 lower dose weekly sessions instead of over four x 21 day sessions. Has anyone else done this and what where the SE please?
I did 3 x FEC and lost most of my hair (even with a cold cap). However once I started T my hair began to grow back and continued to do so. I did lose my eye lashes on T and eye brows are still sparse though.
Hopefully someone else who is doing T on the weekly doses can share there experience as I was on the 3 weekly cycles.
thanks Flopsy thats interesting to know. Can I also ask, did you find the side effects of T easier or worse that FEC? I know we are all different and have different experiences but I would be interested to hear how it went for you please
thanks Blueash. Hopefully then, and fingers crossed, I will have cope well with the ‘T’. I understand that the tiredness is accumulative and I am preparing myself for that. Time will tell …
Thanks Flopsy for sharing your experiences. I had my last FEC yesterday and will start ‘T’ in 21 days. I spoke with my oncologist yesterday too and he definately wants me to have the lower dose on a weekly basis as he said that it would be safer and kinder to my body. My neutrophil levels dropped to 0.1 on first FEC sycle and 0.6 on second so he is just being very careful for which I am grateful. Bigpositives though - I am half-way there!!! Yay xx