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Archive => Archives => Topic started by: Battyp on April 26, 2006, 02:56:30 pm
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See I've another idea and it's not been a year...watch out I'm on a roll!
I made the mistake of not asking my chosen surgeon if they were going to shave my head for surgery. In my thought process at the time they were so I had my hair cut short (real short) in order to not look so strange post op. Well they didn't shave my head like I've seen in some pics posted they just parted my hair and stapled it down (sounds worse than it is LOL) They did shave 1 inch spots all over for fidicual markers the day before my surgery which totally whacked my short hair up. Had I of left it long I doubt I'd have had the bad hair days...
so moral of the story..if you're contemplating surgery..ask don't assume how much hair they're going to shave!
I would def. have done better leaving my hair long and pulling it in a pony tail vs the bad hair days I'm going through which let's face it just doesn't help a woman's self esteem! :D
I just found out I'm a big liar! Apparently they did shave part of my head only I was so out of it I by the time I got back into the reality game it had grown back. Just thought I'd share my nasty head pic... I still wouldn't have cut my hair that short would have left it alone!(http://image2.frappr.com/pix2/i/20060520/f/d/e/fdedf99900be939d5e7d2b4b01b389120_mid.jpg)
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My waist length hair is thinning from CK.. I knew to expect some hair loss (but not much) and so far, so good but now dried out and thinning.... but, for me, if that's the least of my worries, I'm kewl with it!
Batty, who knew? You're right... we can always ask first and if it helps with self-esteem as anyone goes through this process (regardless of treatment choices), I agree... but, as a hairdresser in my former life (still licensed in 2 States for over *coff* 25 years now), just remember... "it'll always grow back!" :)
xoxo
Phyl
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Yeah that was my attitude when I cut it...but dang could it hurry up so I could quit looking like a boy LOL 8)
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Batty,
I don't think you look like a boy, in fact, I think your hair looks nice! Then again, I wear my hair short probably because it is so thick. Not short short, but about your length or a bit shorter and layered so it doesn't puff out so much! I used to get it even shorter but actually do wear it a bit longer now because of the scars I want covered. Actually, I had hair shaved in a sort of upside down L shape and my hair is so freakin thick and it was long enough to do a Donald Trump combover! LOL I also like it short because it's less to be bothered with. I just don't have the time or patience any more! Whatever makes you happy is what you should do, but you def do NOT look like a boy!
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Thanks Static...the pic on here is the haircut before the final hair cut. I liked that one...trying to get back to that length. My hair is so thick it just sort of lays there and is hard to try to style. My frappr page with the pink shirt is post surgery and it's not much longer than that now but is evened up finally from all the crop circles the put on my head LOL ;D
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I just made sure that whoever shaved my head had to be female. Sorry guys, but women just understand hair issues better. She didn't shave as much as I thought and did a great job, so that the upper layers would cover my incision. It was the person that had applied my head bandage that I'm sitll looking for. He pulled all my hair straight up and I looked like bride of frankenstien. I only walked the the halls late at night, so as not to scare too many people. I was hideous :(
Batty you do NOT look like a boy!
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Hey you wenches,
Surgery didn't cause hair loss - too much of ..... causes hair loss (so they tell me!
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Oh matti you've got me laughing..I pity that guy if you ever find him!
Laz..since I wasn't getting too much of anything but decadron it had to be the surgery LOL
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I cut my hair an inch long when I started having to wash it in Joy and seawater and never looked back. Whack it all off, sez I!!! I had a luverly half-mohawk for my middle-fossa. After three weeks, You couldn't even see the scar cuz it's really thick and wavy.
(http://image2.frappr.com/pix2/i/20060317/a/3/8/a38aae02c7f9501429a127d0e8276f5d0_mid.jpg)
Pretty gorgeous, eh? The day they took the dressing off! Just about c****ed my drawers when I looked in the mirror! "This too shall pass" sez I. And, believe me it did!
Capt Deb 8)
Short-haired One-eared Wench!
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for the guys .. I would get it cut short, it just makes showering and cleaning it a lot easier. (I had BAHA surgery at the same time as the trans-lab so I had extra issues)
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Shorter is easy to take care of and in the beginning was very welcome...but now I feel so unattractive and frustrated. Hmm..could be the extra weight gain and other problems to and I'm just taking it out on my hair LOL
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I'm planning on keeping it long and my hairdresser close by. Will update ya after my surgery how I feel about what I did. I currently have a few inches past shoulder length hair.
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I'm a guy with short hair as it is, but I got a 'miltary' type buzz cut before surgery. The doc told me ahead of time that he would be shaving the left half of my head. Once my hair started to grow back, I got one haircut and everything was the same length.
You can see how much he shaved here, this pic was taken 4 days after surgery.
(http://www.mustangmods.com/ims/u/948/1254/8881.jpg)
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Gennysmom,
my hair is just past my shoulders. and they just shaved a area of about two inches around my left ear.  If you look at Stein's picture that is the same type incision i had.  My hair was able to cover it up.  However, while I was in the hospital and still had the staples in my head they were putting aquafore on my incision/staples, so it would scab up less so it would be less painful when my staples were removed.  So i had my sister put my hair in a pony tail, other wise my hair was a greasey mess on the left side. ÂÂ
It is almost a year to the date of my surgery and my hair regrowth is doing great.  it is about two inches shorter than the rest of my hair, but still growing back in full force.  No bald spot, my incision is a small pink line, you can hardly see it anymore.  When i pull my hair back into a ponytail my regrowth of hair is almost long enough to get in the holder, but not quite, so i look like a throwback to
the 80's. Ha Ha!  Also, my hair would probably be longer by now if i had not had the CSF leak and surgery in June.
okay, so enough about me.
Have a GREAT day!
Denise
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Stein what type of procedure did you have?
I know I should know this but can't remember :(
Funny how some shave and some don't. You're hair ms gutta mind LOL
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Stein what type of procedure did you have?ÂÂ
I know I should know this but can't remember :(
Funny how some shave and some don't. You're hair ms gutta mind LOL
Restrosigmoid. :D
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Thanks Denise!!!! I was kind of hoping that I could get them to let me put my hair in a ponytail after they shaved the surgery spot so that I wouldn't be pulling on the skin after the surgery. Then just leave it that way until I can shower. I know I'm going to be a gookey grease bomb, but, hey, it's better than leaving the tumor in there to do more damage to me.
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ok, stein I thought so..my scar though I haven't really seen it resembles yours by feel. Only I had staples and no stiches. Wonder why some docs shave your head and others don't?
Mom take ponytail holders, scarfs and hats and don't worry about it LOL I was allowed to wash my hair without shampoo the first time in the hospital until I got my staples out. It felt SOOOOO good! I really didn't care what it looked like after either LOL
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I know at House for translab, they just shave a little off behind your ear--barely noticeable at all.
Capt Deb
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Stein, I see that "Ice Mountain" water bottle in the background ... thats who I work for ! ..thanks! gotta keep the insurance paid up ;D
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Stein, I see that "Ice Mountain" water bottle in the background ... thats who I work for ! ..thanks! gotta keep the insurance paid up ;D
Good deal! That's all the wife and I drink! ;D
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Gee must be a northern thing as I've never heard of that type of water. We have yucky bottled water here (IMO)
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I had a suboccipital and my hair was shaved (the under layer) in a short of upside down L shape in the back right side of my head. I didn't have staples but dissolving stitches. Guess they all do it their own way.
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Gee must be a northern thing as I've never heard of that type of water. We have yucky bottled water here (IMO)
Actually .. we have water down there too! each region of the country has its own Spring(s) .. but its run by us "Nestle" in the northeast:
Ice Mountain:Central US
Arrowhead: West Coast
Poland Spring/Deer Park: East Coast
Ozarka: Southern US
Zephyrhills: Florida / Southeast
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Joe... shhhhhhh... I use to work for Suntory... you know, Crystal Springs, Belmont Springs, Kentwood Coffee, etc.. ;)
Phyl
Gee must be a northern thing as I've never heard of that type of water. We have yucky bottled water here (IMO)
Actually .. we have water down there too! each region of the country has its own Spring(s) .. but its run by us "Nestle" in the northeast:
  Ice Mountain:Central US
  Arrowhead: West Coast
  Poland Spring/Deer Park: East Coast
  Ozarka: Southern US
  Zephyrhills: Florida / Southeast
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really !... the enemy !! >:( , I knew there was something up with you ;) ... just kidding :D
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Ahhh funny I don't like deer park water or zephyrhills but will drink nestle's and spring valley. They're probably all bottled from the same water. Some taste like plastic to me? ???
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I had the translab at House. Just a small area at the back of the head near the ear was shaved...which was completely covered when my hair was down. Stiches, not staples. Aveda makes a "hair refresher" product which I used on my bangs and the rest of my hair besides the surgery area. That worked well enough for the time before I could wash it. I worried about that first shower and trying to fix my hair for the first time after surgery. It was not bad at all!
I had hair down to the middle of my back before surgery, but thought it would be too much to take care of, so I had it cut to my shoulders right before surgery...and then I cut it myself (short) about 5 days after surgery for a "new look" (I have zero experience cutting hair--I was clearly not myself--normally I don't even try to trim my bangs). I freaked my husband out when he came in to see what I was doing in the bathroom for so long at 3 a.m. (those dang steroids!) and found the trash can full of hair and me standing there with quite a lot missing. Each day afterward, I did a little bit of trimming and he eventually had to hide my scissors for fear I would end up completely bald.
I liked the shorter hair for about 2 weeks (and it was easier to take care of). But then I just wanted my long hair back. My advice: wait until several weeks after surgery to figure out what to do with your hair :).ÂÂ
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lisa...OH MY...I probably would have done the same thing if I had left my hair long as there was no way I'd have been able to take care of it...Now I just wish it would grow back. My head is still so tendar on surgery side that I'd not be able to style it so don't know why I care LOl
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I won't let my hairdresser wash my hair anymore--he loves to scrub and massage the scalp, but when he hits those little titanium plates in my skull--YEOWEE!! I wash it before I go to him now. I also find that those little plates sometimes feel like they "catch" on the inside of my scalp sometimes when I laugh too hard or have been smiling for a long time. Weird, huh?
Captain Deb 8)
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hair still falling out here (in good amts) almost 4 wks post treatment. Thinned on front hairline (now, granted, I have a lot of hair, but as a hairdresser, I know where to look and yes, the front hairline is affected). Can't wait for it to stop falling out. I'm shedding everwhere worse than Beanie (my Pug)
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Everywhere?
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Yeah--no more pesky back hair for our Pearly Girly!!!!
Captain Deb
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When I was 34, I had full-blown Scarlet Fever. Wouldn't of made it without antibiotics. Was 104 for 5 days straight. Lost 1/2 my hair (luckily even all over). Was very traumatic. I could feel the breeze on my scalp. Good luck Phyl...when it grows back in it sticks straight up so you look fuzzy!!!!!!!
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I too had very short hair. My incision wasn't healing ,thinking my stylist was nicking it with the razor, I have grown it out some. Almost a year, and I still have scabs! anybody else take this long to heal. Also think my hair has grown back thinner on AN side. Could be I just am not used to it longer!luv2teach
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ok, found new thinning spot on front hairline.. now, that makes 2. :'( BUT, I meet with BI this Monday for my 1-month post treatment follow up (MRI to check brain edema, tumor team, etc) to see how things are going. Will also have them check my head for my bald spots... heck, still the least of my worries.. just wish the stoopid crickets would pipe down. Giving me a headache!
TGIF all!
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Did your doctors tell you that you would lose some of your hair? Mine said that this is not a by-product of Gamma Knife unless they happened to be targeting something very close to the scalp. Is this a stress induced hair loss, maybe? ??? Well, I do hope that after effect stops SOON. Now I'll probably be looking for my hair to fall out now!! I have a hair appointment next week. I'll have to ask him if my hair looks thinner!
Su
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Hey Sue
Yeah, I was aware that some of my hair would "thin", which it has. I by-product of the radiosurgery and that's ok. I was told the same as you since the radiation would be deeper than skin/surface, but that's ok..... it'll grow back! :) As for your hair, oh, I'm sure it's fine. When I wash mine, I notice a bit more hair in the drain. If you notice that as well, then sure.. some thinning.. and if not, that's awesome. My hair is the least of my worries... :)
Phyl
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mmm hair loss - can't really afford to lose any more - ageing thing for us blokes. Still, your right girly, it's the least of the issues. As long as the energy levels are high for you know who and you know what - your boss and work of course!!!!!!!!!!!!
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still falling out... :(
..and dear Wenchy Pirate, NOT from my back... none there to fall out, you wench! ;D :-* ;)
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My hair over the orginal incision sites remains very thin (if any at all) so I have to be careful when picking my hair styles....if the wind blows the wrong way you can see the bald line....about 1" thick and about 3" long...that's the orginal surgery site from 15 years ago...the recent one is right behind the ear and not noticable.
Kathleen
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I'm a guy with short hair as it is, but I got a 'miltary' type buzz cut before surgery. The doc told me ahead of time that he would be shaving the left half of my head. Once my hair started to grow back, I got one haircut and everything was the same length.
You can see how much he shaved here, this pic was taken 4 days after surgery.
(http://www.mustangmods.com/ims/u/948/1254/8881.jpg)
My incision scar is almost identical to yours.
Being a guy, I didn't think much about my hair, pre-op, so now I have a conventional men's haircut with one side shaved and a few 'bald spots' from the surgery monitoring attachments. It's a real mess. I now wear a baseball cap whenever I leave the house. However, I see my barber next week and intend to get a 'military cut' (like yours) so that my hair will grow back in some kind of reasonable pattern. That shouldn't take too long.
Now that I'm well into my recovery, I want to look - as well as feel - 'normal' again!
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I read this thread just in time. I have been looking at shorter hairstyles, and not seeing anything I think would look good on me. I have had long hair all my life, and the thought of cutting it short was traumatic. Now I know I should wait, I may still have to cut it at some point, but hopefully I can camoflouge.
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I had the translab approach and they only cut very little. You couldn't even tell it unless I pulled my hair back to show my incision. I have longer hair too.
Lynn