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Old 05-19-2017, 05:05 PM   #1
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Dry (really dry) Hair

Hi everyone
My hair is growing back after my 4 rounds of TCH. Its been about 6 months since then. Its been shaped a couple of times and colored. (It came back totally gray) But it is course and DRY!
Anyone find any shampoos, conditioners or treatments that work well for post chemo hair? I've been trying mostly natural products and they don't seem to do well moisturizing in fact they seem drying. Help!
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Dx 3/1/2016 on routine mammo, DCIS/IDC, Left, 1.2cm, Stage IA, Grade 3, 0/1 nodes, ER+/PR-, HER2+ (IHC) BRCA neg
Surgery 4/5/2016 Mastectomy: Left; Reconstruction w/silicone implant
Chemotherapy 7/6/2016 TCH 4 rounds
1 year total Herceptin
Arimidex 5 year plan (stopped after 1 year due to unmanageable SEs)
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Old 05-21-2017, 11:09 PM   #2
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Re: Dry (really dry) Hair

Hi, I first tried Nioxin, which is peppermint-based, and helps with thinning, dry hair.

Next I did a lot of swimming and my hair got hideously dry, and I was put onto Kevin Murphy Plumping Wash and Plumping Rince, and Plumping leave-in volumiser. The latter brand is Australian, and has left my hair really soft and healthy again.
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Sept 2013 found lump,Cyst?? forgot lump.
Dec 2013 GP check, Referred for U/S, MG,FNA.
7 Jan 2014 Radiology: Radiologist turned screen away from me. When asked she said "Not a cyst, very suspicious.See your GP asa results avail."
Cancelled my psych clients for the week.
8 Jan 14 GP: 2.2cm IDC in 6cm DCIS field. FNA=malignant cells. Referred to Surgeon.
Cancelled my psych clients for the month.
13 Jan
14 Surgeon said L mastectomy not lumpectomy, offered neoadjunctive trial, agreed adjunctive chemo after surgery a good choice for me. Booked Body scan and bone scan for staging (both fine) Surgery for16 Jan,
16 Jan 14 Surgeon also agreed in preop meeting to also remove 6cm fatty cyst in job lot. Good job done.
19 Jan 14 discharged home with 1 drain.
22 Jan 14 drain partly pulled out overnight, serious seroma (600 ml reducing removed every 2 days for a month) Serious staph infection because nurse said wait 3 days for yr surgeon appointment.
26Jan 14 pathology: 2.2cm Grade 3(3,3,2)ER-, PgR-, HER2+2 so to be confirmed by Sish test. Node negative. No vascular or lymphatic involvement. No metastases in scans.
30 Jan 14 HER2+ high amplification, 13 gene copies per cell.
21st Feb 14 Began 3wkly TCH adjuvant treatment at The Mount Hospital Perth, with 3monthly MUGA heart tests +Oncologist or Surgeon full physical check-up.
Cancelled my psych clients for 6 months.
Feb 14 First MUGA test: 71%,
First C15.3 test: 20
7th March 14 began Neulasta self-applied injections 24hrs after each TCH treatment. Bonepain helped by spa, heatpacks and
Claritin, reflux/indigestion helped by Somac.
July 14 completed docetaxol and carboplatin, ongoing herceptin to 12 months. Severe cognitive deficit/fatigue after 1pm daily.
Sept 14 Second MUGA test: 69%
Cancelled my psych clients for 2014
Dec 14 Third MUGA test: 70%
Second C15.3 test : 20
Cognitive fatigue delays return to work.

March 2015 Tachycardia pulse 168, night in hospital. Cardiologist says no heart disease, ALIVE ECG attachment for my mobile phone now regular monitoring.
July 2015 Worktrial, up to 8hrs per wk. Fatigue ongoing
Aug 2015 Heart good, no evidence of cancer, just Fatigue.
May 2019 Melanoma 1.5cm Stage 1 by right collarbone(was present as large freckle in 2014 and cut through by breast surgeon to remove fatty cyst at same time as mastectomy.) Melanoma removed leaving scar from shoulder to breastbone. In hospital twice for IV antibiotics. Told catagorically this could not be BC mets.
Dec 2019 Still NED, still fatigue in late afternoon, but have my brain back in the early mornings. So most days I watch the sunrise and hear the birds morning chorus in my bush backyard and am glad to be alive and to be me still.

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Old 06-01-2017, 07:48 AM   #3
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Re: Dry (really dry) Hair

a hairdresser told me you should leave in a little of the cream rinse, don't rinse it all out. Also you could put a little olive or avocado oil on your hair - the Italians use that - on their bodies as well. Heated up a little might even work better. At the cancer hospital here, an esthetician suggested oils as well and also coconut or cacao oil on the skin. Her feeling was use as natural as possible. and of course we want to avoid parabens.
good luck
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Old 06-03-2017, 04:15 PM   #4
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Re: Dry (really dry) Hair

Thanks for the suggestions
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Dx 3/1/2016 on routine mammo, DCIS/IDC, Left, 1.2cm, Stage IA, Grade 3, 0/1 nodes, ER+/PR-, HER2+ (IHC) BRCA neg
Surgery 4/5/2016 Mastectomy: Left; Reconstruction w/silicone implant
Chemotherapy 7/6/2016 TCH 4 rounds
1 year total Herceptin
Arimidex 5 year plan (stopped after 1 year due to unmanageable SEs)
Tamoxifen started 10/2017
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