Hair Loss with BEACOPP

Al1xGaxAs · New User Joined: 12 Jan 2008 Posts: 2

Hey,

I got diagnosed with M. Hodgkin IIIA in January. Apparently it has spread to parts of my abdomen, Lung and several other locations, including my bone marrow. My oncologist prescribed in coherence with the German Hodgkin Lymphoma Study Group the treatment BEACOPP escalated.

So far everything is going quite well, i have received my last chemo on Monday and will be due again for a week in about 10 days.

The Dr. told me that hairloss is inevitable, which as a man i can accept more easily than most women probably would.

Now i would just like to know when the hair loss starts. I would like to shave my head before all hair falls out to avoid patchy spots. A friend of mine read somewhere that it is supposed to start with the second cycle. Right now i am between first and second cycle.

Life_101 · Regular Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 20 Location: N.E. Ohio

Hello,
It all depends on the person. Some people lose most of it or
some of it and some people lose very little. I would suggest you
not do anything for awhile. Probably around the second or third
session you'll see it on the pillow. Most of mine came out right
after the second chemo when I washed my hair in the shower and
noticed the water was not draining. Good luck in your fight.

Al1xGaxAs · New User Joined: 12 Jan 2008 Posts: 2

Ok, it started on 14 of the first cycle. Everytime i would run my hand through my hair, a whole bunch of them would come out. I now shaved the rest off and i think that it'll be a matter of just a few days until the rest will fall out.

Apparently i do have another problem now.
My girlfriend and i have discovered some problems in our 3-year-relationship and she decided that she will need some time apart, to think things over, get a clear head, find out if she still wants to be with me and so on...

Normally i would gladly give her that time. She had also planned to go out of country for 3 months some time earlier as part of a university-student exchange program.
She now thinks that this will be a great opportunity to find out if she still thinks that we should stay together.

I on the other hand am quite overwhelmed by that. It's one thing to have a troubled relationship that needs fixing and that alone would hurt me plenty. But now that i have this disease and found out what sacrifices and terrible loneliness it can bring along (i need to stay at home a lot to avoid infections due to my low white-count).

I have now asked her not to go on that trip, in order to save the relationship and help me fight the cancer. That way i put a lot of pressure onto her which is causing her pain as well. The trip will start in 1.5 weeks, hence my desperation.

At first i lose my own health and now i am about to lose the most important person in my life. While i think i could recover from either one of these issues seperately, i don't know if i can handle both.

I don't know if anyone here can help me with this but perhaps there is somebody who has experienced similar things and is able to give me some advice.

maggieoz · New User Joined: 22 Sep 2008 Posts: 5

[quote="Al1xGaxAs"]Ok, it started on 14 of the first cycle. Everytime i would run my hand through my hair, a whole bunch of them would come out. I now shaved the rest off and i think that it'll be a matter of just a few days until the rest will fall out.

Apparently i do have another problem now.
My girlfriend and i have discovered some problems in our 3-year-relationship and she decided that she will need some time apart, to think things over, get a clear head, find out if she still wants to be with me and so on...

Normally i would gladly give her that time. She had also planned to go out of country for 3 months some time earlier as part of a university-student exchange program.
She now thinks that this will be a great opportunity to find out if she still thinks that we should stay together.

I on the other hand am quite overwhelmed by that. It's one thing to have a troubled relationship that needs fixing and that alone would hurt me plenty. But now that i have this disease and found out what sacrifices and terrible loneliness it can bring along (i need to stay at home a lot to avoid infections due to my low white-count).

I have now asked her not to go on that trip, in order to save the relationship and help me fight the cancer. That way i put a lot of pressure onto her which is causing her pain as well. The trip will start in 1.5 weeks, hence my desperation.

At first i lose my own health and now i am about to lose the most important person in my life. While i think i could recover from either one of these issues seperately, i don't know if i can handle both.

I don't know if anyone here can help me with this but perhaps there is somebody who has experienced similar things and is able to give me some advice.[/quote]

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Hi, I know it is months since your post but I read it and felt I had to reply as I have gone through the same anguish - with twists. Let me know if you want to hear my story. Good luck - I hope you are now with your girl.

Maggieoz
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51 yr old female
Queensland, Australia
Diagnosed jejunal NHL stage IIE, ungradeable
Completed R-CHOP 14 on 27th June 2008
Told "all clear except for small bump left at tumour site"

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