I’ve lost my hair three times due to taxol. The first time was devastating! The other times were better, because I knew what was coming. Each time my hair has grown back as thick as it was before. It returned curly each time, and with a little more salt than pepper! The white hair always grows back first, then the darker hair follows. I have used the same wig during my 15 year journey with cancer, and have a good selection of caps and scarves ready for the next time. The drugs that I have used for the last few years only thin my hair, but it doesn’t completely fall out. I have not had to shave my legs at all for about 5 years! My eyebrows and eyelashes are hardly there either, which is quite disappointing, but that’s the way it is, and can’t be helped.
I tell people that the only time I cry these days is when my hairdresser cuts the curls off, I have very straight hair! I also had long hair before I lost it the first time. It’s been shorter than shoulder length ever since.