how come after having cancer and chemo has my straight hair grown back curly?

Answer 1

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First and foremost, I would like to say I am so sorry about your past possession with this illness. I have lost many comrades to cancer, and you being a survivor brings hope and a quintessent inpsiration to me and the world


♥ Perhaps since the chemo process has an intense use of chemicals your hair folicles have not become impervious to the intensity bringing a curling and oval appearence. However, I am sure that you will work through it though. You've proven your strong will and steadfastness! God bless you

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Answer 2

I can't give you a medical reason, but I can reassure that this is normal. A friend of mine recently finished going through chemo, and her formerly straight hair also grew back in very curly. Her doctors told her that this frequently happens and that it would probably grow in less and less curly over time, but there was no way to predict whether it would ever go back to being completely straight. Her doctors couldn't provide a medical reason either. Apparently, nobody is quite sure why this sometimes happens.

Check out the link below for an answer to this same question from an actual MD, even though the answer basically boils down to "we don't really know".

Answer 3

That happened to me too. I had straight hair with some loose curls and my hair came back curly initially. I was ... quite concerned. But that's a function of your chemo, depending on what you had, and the drugs they used, chemo tends to work by interfereing with the way your cells repair themselves, and so (as you no-doubt noticed) you would feel tired and minor cuts and things wouldn't heal during your chemo. That's in part your body being unable to repair itself. When you are between chemo sessions, your body usually quickly recoups and your cells start to repair properly,

Unless the chemo or radiation killed the stem-cells which make your hair grow, this will affect your hair by creating waves, in the order of how many treatments you got and then finally a big burst of hair growth a few weeks after your chemo is finished.

However, get a short haircut and it should be less curly afterwards.

Think about it, if the worst thing you have to worry about it curly hair vs. straight, you've won this round, do a little victory dance. Think about it this way - what's the worst you'd have to do - get a perm!?

Answer 4

Hair can honestly change in colour and or texture at the same time as it regrows after chemo... i am going to also say thay at the same time as it begins regrowing very slowly for some months, it often has a unexpected spurt of quick boom after that ( for some, no longer all ) so that's widely used for that difficulty... i am going to digital mail in an afternoon or 2 to speak about some thing else... yet once you get reconstruction ( in case you pick to ) MRI's should be executed a minimum of each and every year... you would want to seem into Flaxseed oil ( there is a few effective and adverse stuff about it on the challenge of breast cancer so do your own learn ) yet be effective and take calcium with a diet d supplement as your bones have taken a beating with each and every of the treatment....

Answer 5

I have always believed that curly hair is because of roots that are not quite as healthy as those of straight hair. So, working on this theory, it would seem that Chemo damages the roots of the hair which causes them to fall out and when the hair grows back it is still slightly damaged and will probably take a little while to return to its original state.

Answer 6

It may starighten again after a time. Some people who were grey have hair with colour grow through and vice versa. Well done on completing your chemo and hope things all go well for you xx

Answer 7

It often does - nobody seems to be quite sure why, but it's probably a mechanism similar to that which gives babies and toddlers curly hair which then grows straight. It's nothing to worry about, if that was on your mind - just wait to see what happens.

I wish you very well for your continuing recovery.

Answer 8

how is wish i had the proper answer for you. i had chemo 10 years ago and went into it with knee length straight hair. when all was over my hair began growing in wavy in some areas and crimped in others. i still don't know how to care for it.

it happens. i've learned to live with it. i am alive and victorious - to me that's the mostg important part of the whole ordeal.

good luck to you. blessings.

Answer 9

I can't say why but mine came in curly then too. When you cut it it should grow in straight

Answer 10

its all to do with the hormone chemicals in your body turning your folicals from round to oval. I knew someone else that happened to and her curls looked great