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linn65 · 02-05-2013, 12:57 PM

I now have hotflashes that began with chemo, and I suppose now the Tamoxifan. Anyway, I can have a hot flash with my wig on and my head just sweats underneath. I can deal with taking my wig off and wiping the sweat off. However, what is driving me crazy now is I am just starting to get some new hair growth and my head is itching like crazy!!! But I can take the wig off and give my head a good scratch and all is well. Then, I put my wig back on and all I can think about is my head is itching like crazy. The itching is not from the new hair growth so WHAT do wigs just automatically make your head ITCH when you put them on????

Between the hot flashes one minute then cold with goose bumps the next.....And the itchy head!!! Errrrr does this happen with everyone??

02-05-2013, 12:57 PM	#1
linn65 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Attica, IN Posts: 371	Is it just me or is it the WIG I now have hotflashes that began with chemo, and I suppose now the Tamoxifan. Anyway, I can have a hot flash with my wig on and my head just sweats underneath. I can deal with taking my wig off and wiping the sweat off. However, what is driving me crazy now is I am just starting to get some new hair growth and my head is itching like crazy!!! But I can take the wig off and give my head a good scratch and all is well. Then, I put my wig back on and all I can think about is my head is itching like crazy. The itching is not from the new hair growth so WHAT do wigs just automatically make your head ITCH when you put them on???? Between the hot flashes one minute then cold with goose bumps the next.....And the itchy head!!! Errrrr does this happen with everyone?? __________________ myleftlump.wordpress.com - started blogging my IDC breast cancer 7/2012 diagnosed with multiple solid lesions 7/20/12 biopsy done. ER+ 30 PR -, HER+++,k167 80% Grade 2 9/2012 biopsy on lymph node - showed malignant 9/2012 Pre-adjunctive TCH chemo. 12/6/12 MRI after Pre-adj. Results: Modest Decrease in size of left breast malignancy As well as the associated satellite lesions and auxiliary Adenopathy compared to prior study. Doctors hoped for better but good response it didn't grow. 12/18/2012 left masectomy with axillary nodes Size 3.2 CM, Nottingham score 9/9 Grade 3, no evidence of in situ carcinoma Areas of angiolymphatic are identified Carcinoma is 0.5 cm from inked deep Margin of excision Attached axillary lymph nodes: metastatic Carcinoma in 6 of 8 nodes. Size of largest node 1.5 cm Extracapsular ER + 73%, PR+2%, HER2+ 2/27/13 6 weeks of IMRT radiation finished 2/2013 Started on Tamoxifan 5 years. 8/2013 will take last Herceptin, 17 treatments total every 3 weeks. BRCA1 & BRAC2 - Negative August 28, 2013 DIEP flap on the left breast. February 2014 Nip & Tuck March 14, 2014 nipple reconstruction and removed port. August 14, 2014 lump in lymph nodes under arm and above clavicle. Stage IV August 28, 2014 herceptin And projeta starting and port put back in. 3/18/15 stopped arimidex. 3/18/15 progression....Tdm1