Did your hair change color after surgery? - ThinnerTimes

karenwd · 05-29-2006, 06:47 AM

I am wondering if anyone has shared this experience? Did your hair change color after surgery? Mine has. I used to be a dark blonde and wore highlights in my hair. Since surgery four months ago, my hair has gotten lighter and lighter on its own. It is now a beautiful light blonde with natural white highlights. I can't get over how light it continues to get. I thought about having it done in a brown color with caramel highlights -- but the natural color is growing on me. Anyone else experience this change in hair color?

BethBaugh · 05-29-2006, 07:07 AM

My only issue is the gray hairs held on fast and the dark brown ones fell out. MY silver streaks are more prominent. Glad for you. Unfortunately my family is prematurely gray. My dad was all gray before he was my age. You look great!
I like the light color.

Beth B. in TN
319/277/162/150

coptergirl · 05-29-2006, 10:42 AM

I am only 3 months out and the only color change is what my hairdresser does - I can't even recall my original color since I have been having it colored so long

lealphachienne · 05-29-2006, 10:49 AM

Yep, blonde, red, chocolate, auburn, maroon, copper

My natural mousy brown isn't pretty. I need a lighter shade for my brighter personality!

Dorothy · 05-29-2006, 11:17 AM

I am still pre-op. but just wanted to say ... heck I dont know what my natural hair color is anymore! Summer it turns blonde, Autumn it starts to turn red, winter it is a light brown and that is all without hair coloring LOL - if I turn all gray after surgery... then I guess I could just say I am a die-hard Taylor Hicks fan

sdgrrl · 05-29-2006, 12:42 PM

I didn't start losing my hair until about 1-2 months ago (I'm a little over 7 mos out), so I don't know what will happen to me, but I do know a little about regrowth of hair.

It seems as if our bodies kinda go back to "the last time" we had to start growing hair (as babies, maybe after chemo, whatever) we start back with what we got then. Born blonde, changed to brown? It seems to come back in blonde. Pretty baby curls, followed by stick straight hair? It comes in with soft curls as if we were new all over again. Hair may then revert to our "grown up" kind, or come in white (skipping over the grey thing altogether), but my experience with people who have lost (all) their hair from chemo is that it comes in just like when they were babies. This is fine with me, except I was so bald as a young 'un my mom TAPED a bow to my head for my 1st birthday pictures. They hadn't figured out about the soap thing to make the bow stick to the head then....I think tape was new back then, and that was as far as anyone thought...

I am slightly freaked out by the hair loss, as I have really fine hair to begin with, with like no body--think baby hair. But I can feel how thin it is, and now there are light brown/blonde hairs in the bathtub drain instead of Michelle's black hair....

I don't look a bit good without hair....maybe an Eva Gabor wig?

Myrr03 · 05-29-2006, 01:26 PM

i am five months out and haven't noticed any change in hair color. It might be related to nutrition (i have no science to back this up, it's just a guess.

april · 05-30-2006, 12:45 PM

The only change in my hair is that there is more of it in my brush and in the drain than on my head!

Groovey kinda Love · 05-30-2006, 06:07 PM

Nope the only change in my hair was it fell out in massive amounts!!! ThankGod it is all growing back in... and I think maybe even thicker than before.

kat4752 · 05-31-2006, 09:12 AM

I am preop, but was asked to find out if dying hair results in any changes in the hair, good or bad? Reading about how surgery has changed some people's hair reminded me to ask this question.
Thanks
Anxiously waiting
Ht 5'3, Wt 216lbs/goal wt 125lbs

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Originally Posted by karenwd

I am wondering if anyone has shared this experience? Did your hair change color after surgery? Mine has. I used to be a dark blonde and wore highlights in my hair. Since surgery four months ago, my hair has gotten lighter and lighter on its own. It is now a beautiful light blonde with natural white highlights. I can't get over how light it continues to get. I thought about having it done in a brown color with caramel highlights -- but the natural color is growing on me. Anyone else experience this change in hair color?