Just wondering if anyone had this expirience? I'm 5 months post tx. My facial hair returned about 2 1/2 months ago and I grew a full goat-tee (sp?). Anyway I shaved it off 2 weeks ago and noticed this week that my chin is not regroing in the center and I have the sparse, patchy black hairs like I did when it all started to grow back. It's the same on my upper lip. I asked my Ro yesterday and he was a bit puzzled also. Did anyone have this happen for them? Boy I hope mostly the men reply. Ha Ha.
Wellllll... my beard didn't fall out cuz i'm not a man. BUT i lost all my armpit hair quite early on from chemo. It grew back the same as before, but as you did, i shaved it. & now it grows back sparse & patchy. Also, i lost nearly all of my eye lashes, they grew back, but they've started to fall out again.
I know another lady that lost alot of hair after chemo, and she now is also loosing her chemo hair. So at least we're not alone!
Hair loss can be a sign of an underactive thyroid. You should be having that checked anyway, but especially if you are having other hypothyroid symptoms such as fatigue or feeling fuzzy-headed I would ask to be tested.
Nelie
Thanks to both of you. I don't seem to be fatigued but I see my MO Monday so I will be sure and ask her about checking it just to be sure. Thanks Chelle. Ironically I was trying to be silly with the whole woman/ beard thing and so far only you two wonderful ladies posted. This could really get interesting. Ha Ha. Thanks again, I have been perplexed by this for a few days especially when I showed my RO and he didn't have an answer. Lee
I had a golf ball sized node that I shaved before surgery "was afraid they would ("nick it"/ infection/postpone") so I did it myself.
After, the Mo said the RX would not let the hair grow back anyway. Some people do and some do not. I guess it
I've had my Thyroid checked & that's all normal.
I guess it's just another of the weird and wonderful unpredictable results of Tx!
Lee, the hair on half of my face, including half my moustache as well and a neat rectangualr area on the back of my head fell out during radiation.
It took about 6 months for it to "stabilize". Most of the hair on my head came back, finer than before. My facial hair didn't expect for my moustache and a few small patches on my cheeks. Intersting thing; my moustache was very "salt and pepper" colored pre-treatment...now the hair on the radiation side is as black as it was when I was 20 years old!
My wife called me "two-tone" for a while...she's over that now, thank goodness.
Wayne