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@Aneeebel wrote: Hope you're feeling a bit better angie123 x 💗 🏵 💗 🏵 💗 I am Aneeebel - thank you  ... View more

Hi LB2,  Thank you for your advice when I posted in March. Couldn’t see my post so haven’t been on here until Saturday The painkillers did help but oncologist reduced my last two taxol treatments as I was having problems with the nerves in my fingers. My last chemo was the 17th of April, had a break & have now started radiotherapy. My first session went ok, they spent a long time setting me up but the actual treatment took minutes. Hope everyone on here is doing well xx ... View more

I had wonderful results with the cold cap - just a bit of thinning and this was my routine:   Wash once about a week after chemo with cool water and NOT under a shower. Pat dry DO NOT RUB. Give about 4 squirts of a leave in conditioner. Comb with a wide tooth comb THEN LEAVE IT ALONE until the next week and repeat.   The more you fiddle with it the more it sheds. Do that routine even after your last chemo and only go "back to normal" as in under a shower, more than one wash, wash out conditioner, hair dryer, straighteners or whatever a good month after your last treatment - but I left it 6 weeks. ... View more