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Glad you’re heading home Zed51!
I shaved my head last Monday. Number 1 all over. I wished I’d done it sooner. It was liberating!
I have mainly been wearing scarves and bandanas.
Some pics.... I’ve been getting inspired by Instagram posts
You look lovely xxx
@EnglishRose2019 wrote:It’s a bit of a shock isn’t it? However prepared you are... I’m sorry I don’t know your story and if you’re using a cold cap but my hair has started to fall out A LOT this week (2nd round EC) and I am just trying to embrace the ‘turbans are cool’ look. Don’t know if you watched Fleabag? But her line in the second series of ‘don’t you know hair is everything?’ is most poignant atm ...!!!
This was a scarf I bought from ASOS. I wore a sleep cap underneath.
It’s a bit of a shock isn’t it? However prepared you are... I’m sorry I don’t know your story and if you’re using a cold cap but my hair has started to fall out A LOT this week (2nd round EC) and I am just trying to embrace the ‘turbans are cool’ look. Don’t know if you watched Fleabag? But her line in the second series of ‘don’t you know hair is everything?’ is most poignant atm ...!!!
Hugs to you all ladies. It is so nice to be able to read how we are all getting on.
On the hair conversation; I expected to have lost body hair by now. I have had one EC and did the cold cap and hoped to save the head hair and lose the rest quickly. Looks like I will have to shave the legs again.
I have put on a few pounds and blame it on the Steroids. That's my story and I'm sticking to it 
Woke up yesterday with a sore throat. Turned out it was Oral Thrush. The unit were great and I have tablets and green mouthwash. I suppose there have to be some side effects.
Thank you for the reassuring comments 
Hi ladies, love reading your posts and your are really supportive to each other. Seems you are all hitting the "hair" stage at the moment. It's really difficult to give a time scale for losing all your hair, we all differ. Mine was really really falling out in handfuls by day 15 of first cycle I think, I then had it shaved off and the prickly bits dropped out a few days later. As for hair elsewhere, it was strange coz I didn't notice at first but a few weeks later I realised "everywhere" was very sparse and then it just disappeared, under arms, legs etc.. all gone. Eyebrows and eyelashes seemed to be much later, probably by about chemo cycle 4-5. Bonus is underarm hair and leg hair doesn't grow much now either!
If you are having the "T" (docetaxol) part of chemo then I have read it can cause permanent hair loss but I think that is very rare, not seen anyone on here suffering from it. And a great proportion of ladies found their hair grew back whilst on T, mine certainly did, it started sprouting by cycle 6. And as at least 1 of you has remarked, the relief when its not falling out in handfuls is immense, somehow you just have to pick yourself up and carry on, and its so much cooler during the summer, I used to just dunk my head under the taps last year during the hot spell! Every cloud hey.
I also see some of you are suffering the tears of the steroids, hang in there it does pass, mine used to last a couple of days after I had finished the steroids and I got used to expecting it (OH and kids used to nod knowingly at me and mouth "steroids" to each other) 
Kip
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