Hair Loss

[27-359]

Ifinished chemo eighteen months ago, and subsequently lost my hair. It has grown back well since then, and I have had it cut several times. Last November I had an operation for a blocked bowel and was in hospital for two weeks. I got an incision so infection which took two months to clear. In the last two months, my hair has started to fall out quite significantly, so that my scalp is showing if I don't carefully arrange the hair. I have not tried to colour it or used any other chemicals except for baby shampoo. The GP says that there could be any number of reasons, even after this length of time, chemo. He has taken blood to check for vitamin or mineral deficiency, but nothing has shown up. Has anyone else experienced anything like this and if so, what did they do?

Many thanks ladies, Jenny.

[Pauline14]

Hi Jenny,

I finished chemo 10 January 18 , carb/ caelyx every 4 weeks for 6 session

Didn’t lose hardly any hair until 2 weeks after I had finished then it started to come out it had thinned quite a lot I could see my scalp I brought some

Hair fibre of amazon that was really good in covering the thinning hair .

I was talking to one of the nurses and she recommended a hair shampoo

And conditioner that some of her patients use so I ordered some and it has worked my hair has stopped falling out I do lose some but you can’t see my scalp and I don’t use the fibres any more .The product is called

FAST and you can get it of amazon .

Pauline x

[27-359 in reply to Pauline14]

Thanks Pauline. I will order the shampoo. I checked out hair fibres, but my hair is grey and they don't seem to do it in grey. They must presume that us oldies don't care how we look. NOT TRUE!

Jenny

[Pauline14 in reply to 27-359]

I am white/ grey and I have had both colours and the grey is a dark grey

.pauline x

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Yes, also after a bowel resection. It took months to tumble to the cause of my hair falling out and I wasn't impressed with the hospital for not picking it up. My magnesium was on the floor. Indeed, without supplements, it has remained so. But once on the supplements it did stop falling pretty quickly.

Low magnesium is one of the two leading causes of hair loss, the other being underactive thyroid.

So I hope your GP has checked both of these and... call me suspicious... make sure you get a printout of your blood results.

Since that experience, I always do. I think they all tend to focus on their particular thing and/or what they're expecting to see and don't always look at what else is going on. So we need to!

[27-359]

Ok Mac. Will do. Thanks for the advice.

Jenny

[gina]

I used the Fast shampoo and conditioner too. I ordered it from Boots.

baby shampoo is not that good for us as it is high ph and we need neutral Ph.

[ellseybellsey]

Before dx my hair was falling out quite a lot and was not looking healthy, my sister in law is my hair dresser and she told me to start taking kelp.

My hair grew back very thick and healthy after chemo and I started colouring it again, noticed about two months ago hair started to fall out and not looking it’s us self, I am back on the kelp and biotin to see if it helps.

Ellsey xx

[27-359]

Thanks. Another recommendation. X

Jenny