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thank you, lauriesh, for pointing out the facts people should know about. it's one thing to feel grateful that a chemo drug saves your life, but that does not mean a company should not be taken to task for failure to be transparent about an EXTREMELY serious side effect. that is what is at issue - not telling people they might be permanently bald. also, it's not like Taxotere was our only option. it is a synthetic version of Taxol, which apparently does not cause permanent hair loss. so, had we all be given the opportunity to take taxotere versus taxol into full consideration with all the information, we may have made different choices. i made choices in my chemo, opting for TCH instead of taxol and adriamycin (because adriamycin, the red devil, is heart toxic). who needs heart toxic when herceptin is already weighing on our hearts? i may well have said give me taxol instead of taxotere. in reality, my reason for opting out of taxol was because it is made from a rare Yew tree and choosing a synthetic drug wasn't endangering anything. or so i thought. i have had less hair on the crown of my head, but since i have used a natural shampoo and conditioner and oil by Monat, i have seen it grow back thicker. i doubt it will ever be what it once was. but what has only scantily grown back are my eyebrows and this is distressing to me. i can't tell you how many eyebrow pencils i have tried in my quest to find one that will stay on despite sweat, etc. otherwise, you would swear i was still on chemo if i didn't "have my eyebrows on", they are that thin. i am considering tattooed eyebrows, in fact, but am nervous because i have old scar tissue from a car accident in 1989. i am not a pain wuss, but still.... i don't even know if loss of eyebrows would even count toward a suit, and i am not fond of ambulance chasers either, but i would have made a different choice. i would not have gambled my hair. would any of us? not when there are other options just as if not more potent, like taxol. i asked them about eye brows and a lawyer's office has tried to call me, but i am still thinking it over. sure, it seems minor to whine about eye brows when you weigh it against your life, but the issue is why weren't we told in the first place?