How Long After Treatment Began Did You Lose Your Hair?
Lost SOME of my hair after 2 month of treatment
Did You Lose It Gradually or Very Quickly?
Gradually
What Was Your First Reaction When You Noticed the Loss?
Got a smaller hair brush
Were You Tempted to Shave Your Head? Did You Do It?
No
Did You Choose to Wear a Head Covering or Not?
No, only the usual sun hat
How Did Losing Your Hair Affect Your Everyday Life?
Not at all, since I only lost some of my hair. Not all chemotherapies cause total hair loss as you will see in my Advise entry below. However, my hair was thinner so I had to be more careful about sun hats and less careful of shaving various parts of my body.
Advice
- It is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, for you to highlight hair loss as though it was an inevitable side effect of chemo therapy. I had an advanced, metastatic cancer, but with the chemo chemicals used on me, I lost about half of my hair, which was predicted to me. NOT ALL MY HAIR. And I used the standard chemo used for that drug, not some special arrangement to avoid hair loss. It was not a "female" cancer. Are "female" cancers the only ones you talk about? If not, you are scaring people away from needed treatments with discussions of only the worst scenarios and not other things that might happen instead.
