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Ok ladies don't laugh, but you guys have helped me out alot with other sfuff, that I have to ask this. My eyebrows have never fully grown back since my treatment stopped 4 years ago. Well recentally they started to itch in that area, does that mean that they are growing back? It's bugging me, LOL Jean
Jean, I recently made a trip to Sally's Beauty Supply and got some Instant Brows. Lost my hair in 2005 and am still taking chemo. My eyebrows never came back as thick or as nice as they used to be so I got these peel-off shaping stencils for help. We do what we have to do. ha Mine never itch!
Take care.
Rachel
I doubt the itch means anything after 4 years. Lost my hair, brows and lashes twice. The brows grew back, but were never as full as before I began any chemo. Same for the eyelashes - okay but not as thick. I've since adapted and work with what I have.
I have been off chemo for 10 months. My once overly thick eye brows are now sparce. But so is the hair on my legs under arms hardly have to shave.
This may not be directly related to your question, but those reading this thread may have this question. It seems that our re-growth of hair is a variable situation for each of us. At four months after chemo my eyebrows and eyelashes have returned (a bit less than before), but I had a noticeable gray fuzz to match my hair as if it were a beard. After a few months of of growth and shaving it has finally subsided. I asked my doctor when it started to be noticeable and he said to remember that hair growth was stymied during chemo and now is in a recharge mode. Give it time to calm down and for your normal hormones to return to whatever is normal for you. He was correct ....it was not a long extended time until the facial fuzz stopped growing and the normal hair continues to grow. Needless to say - I am happy to have my hair growing back without having to think that I would need to keep shaving my jawline like a man. This is hard enough on our femininity.
Hi Jean1,
I used to have heavy brows and tweezed and waxed them during an era when thin brows were in.
Eventually the follicles died out and I was left with
thin brows after that. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism 4 years before my OVCA and lost the
outer edges of my brows then. It is one of the side effects of hypothyroidism.
I didn't lose all of my eyebrows during chemo but lost most of them and 2 years post chemo I have grown back most of what I had except for a little spot.
I had purchased an Estee Lauder Automatic Brow Pencil Duo prior to losing my hair and brows during chemo and found that it is a wonderful tool.
It has a brush on one end so that you can feather out the pencil to look like natural brows.
It seems as those people in my family lose their brows as they age, even the men. I'm sure that it must be related to the depleting hormones in our bodies.
I would imagine that after 4 years post chemo that what you have for eyebrows are what you will have.
Blessings!
Luann
Has anyone considered "permanent makeup?" known as micropigmentation, it is a form of cosmetic tattooing used to enhance facial features. My eyebrows came back but are pretty skimpy more than a year and a half since completing chemo. I lost every bit of hair I had while on chemo, but I missed my eyebrows the MOST!! I had a heck of a time figuring out where to draw them on. If I have to do this again, I may get permanent eyebrows done before I lose what I have. I'd like to know if anyone's tried it or knows someone who has and if it's worth doing...
I used the stencils and eyebrow pencil and they looked real. I was happy with them.
lost my eyebrows only once, and never worried about them. no one even ever noticed, my wigs all have bangs, and the bangs met where my eyebrows would have been. this year, when i went on taxol, lost my hair and eye lashes, but not my eyebrows. i guess since i was only on it for 7 weeks, it was not enugh time to loose them. carbo doesn't make me loose anything, and my eye lashes have been fuller since after chemo, both times. and this time, my hair is growing under my arms, on my arms, legs, etc. in 2006 and 2007 and even last year , hardly had to shave, but had great hair! jury is still out on my hair this time back, as still is too short to try and do anything with.
My eyelashes were stubby and my eyebrows were sparse. I started seeing a naturopath and following a healthier diet plus natural supplements and eyebrows became much thicker and lashes longer. It may have been coincidental, but my hair stylest noticed it immediately.
One of the ladies in the Louisville cancer support group had her eyebrows tattooed in by an artist in Florida. They are absolutely beautiful, but she said it was extremely painful. Another woman I know with multiple tatoos said the less flesh an area has the more painful the tattoo process.
Thanks everyone,
Well I guess it's not them growing back. I figured out it's from sun burn I got from sitting out side last weekend. I'm going to try eyebrow pencil. I haven't worn makeup in a couple of years. Thanks again ((HUGS)), Jean
I never had much anyway....light and sort of disappear halfway in the last half of the arch. They came back very thin and light. Funny, my hair on my head came back thick, kinky curly, and my hair everywhere else came back thinnner, straighter and sparser.
What is weird is that I have light facial hair now. Thank goodness it is light, almost white, but I do have to remove it from time to time. That must be the lack of hormones.
I am excitedly watching my hair grow back in very curly which it never was before....however now that my brows are growing in they are curly and wirey as well. I look like one of those old men in cartoons! Will have to figure out exactly what to do with them
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