Long Eyelashes

[newleaf09]

I had seen the term 'llama lashes' on this forum before and it's true!  Went to see Bonnie Raitt and put on make-up (which I never do) and looked like a mascara commercial.  Add that to the ghostly paleness and maybe I looked a little more like "The Queen of the Damned" instead of Cindy Crawford.  

How long does it last?  Disappear immediately after finishing TX or do I get to enjoy it a little while?

[jamie817]

My husbands eyebrows went all weird while he was on treatment too!!  Anyway, about the red puffiness around eyes...I'm not on treatment but I get it very bad because of allergies...itchy, dry, flaky skin, sometimes so bad, my eyes have been swollen shut.  I was always putting cold compresses on them until someone told me to put a hot compress (as hot as you can stand it) on my eyes and it was amazing, it took the puffiness away.  It has something to do with opening the pores around the eyes.  I hope this helps someone.

[newleaf09]

I think the styles go with low platelets.  Also, as my hair started thinning a little, new hair started growing in at the hairline.  Did the same thing with both pregnancies.  I think there is something hormonal that the interferon is doing.  It's not enough to go through menopause, we still gotta put up with more weird stuff.

I really like the eyelash think and may have to wear mascara every day (if the styles don't come back).

Bonnie was great. She did do 'Angel'.  6 mos. into TX, I dreaded going to be stuck in lines and stomped on by crowds but we had good seats, got right in and now that we don't drink any more (and so dehydrated) we never even had to get up till concert was over.  A really good experience.  I don't ever feel like doing anything anymore but I'd go again.

[meakea]

Charm...you looked maaaarvelous darling, simply maaarvelous.  :)

You're right that llama lashes are fairly common.  

[charm27]

My eyelashes were llama lashes too. I had even posted about this while I was treating.
I couldnt wear mascara I looked like a llama freak. I mentioned this to my hepatoligist at U of M and he said he never heard of this.

Well it was strange yet from what I hear common......
And yet I lost hair in all other places.....

I couldnt even wear my glasses because of it.
Long llama lashes with red circles around my eyes..and no  hair...I looked marvelous darlin!!
And thensome!!!

Love
CHARM27

[meakea]

Oh, darn it!  I was hoping the skin issues around my eyes would go away after tx.  Don't tell me the treatment wrinkles stick around afterwards.

Today, it took a ton of concealer to cover up the redness around my eyes before I could even head out the door to work and, of course, then the concealer is a bit heavy and makes the wrinkles look even worse...lol.   I know it's all just a cosmetic issue and things could be a LOT worse, but it is a distressing issue nonetheless.

[justme53]

I got the llama lashes a couple weeks after my eyebrows went weird...guess it kinda balances things out. And it was like...BANG!...one day they weren't there and the next they were! Like newleaf, I noticed mine when I was putting on mascara and the wand kept on going....Looking like Twiggy eyes now, but this is one sx I won't complauin about!