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Old 02-19-2010, 12:02 PM   #5
Becky
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Re: Hair Issues

My hair was very slow to return all over. I worried because female hair loss runs in my family (after menopause) and I was young and firmly in chemopause and had a scheduled ooph to boot.

It did end up coming back okay. It is not as thick as before but it covers my head nicely with no bald or very thin areas. I keep it on the shorter side now cuz I think it would look too straggly if long.

Does menopausal female hair loss run in your family? It might and the chemo hair loss may have accelerated the event. See a dermatologist and see if a Rogaine type product may help you out. It helps my mom alot (a bc survivor who did not need chemo but is on Arimidex which would make her postmenopausal hair loss worse - if you saw her after a Rogaine type product you'd never know there were some bare spots).

I am just thinking out loud here but you might have something else going on.
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