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Herceptin & hair growth?
I am SURE this has been covered before...but I am curious how long before your hair starts growing back in after your LAST chemo? I am still on weekly herceptin...but its been since June 12th since my lasts full cycle chemo and my hair doesn't seem to be growing in much if at all? (Just the same peach fuss that was there.)
I thought the peach fuss would of at least gotten thicker by now? Plus I noticed my eyebrows are still thin to almost not there.  And worse of all...my eye lashes are strange. The right side is ok...but the lashes are thin...hard to get mascara on. But the left side is MISSING lashes towards the inside of my eye. So when I TRY to put mascara on...it looks like ONE eye has it ...and the other one has near none. lol I wonder what people think when they see me up close.
Shouldn't my hair be growing in better by now with JUST hercepin? Or does herceptin cause problems with hair growth too?
Chelee
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DX: 12-20-05 - Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu, 3+++,Er & Pr weakly positive, 5 of 16 pos nodes.
Rt. MRM on 1-3-06 -- No Rads due to compromised lungs.
Chemo started 2-7-06 -- TCH - - Finished 6-12-06
Finished yr of wkly herceptin 3-19-07
3-15-07 Lt side prophylactic simple mastectomy. -- Ooph 4-05-07
9-21-09 PET/CT "Recurrence" to Rt. axllia, Rt. femur, ilium. Possible Sacrum & liver? Now stage IV.
9-28-09 Loading dose of Herceptin & started Zometa
9-29-09 Power Port Placement
10-24-09 Mass 6.4 x 4.7 cm on Rt. femur head.
11-19-09 RT. Femur surgery - Rod placed
12-7-09 Navelbine added to Herceptin/Zometa.
3-23-10 Ten days of rads to RT femur. Completed.
4-05-10 Quit Navelbine--Herceptin/Zometa alone.
5-4-10 Appt. with Dr. Slamon to see what is next? Waiting on FISH results from femur biopsy.
Results to FISH was unsuccessful--this happens less then 2% of the time.
7-7-10 Recurrence to RT axilla again. Back to UCLA for options.
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