Yes the Groucho eyebrows will quickly disappear! My eyebrows grew dark from center toward nose and very coarse during tx. After tx they quickly regained normal color and texture. I called my tx brows devil brows. The devil brows plus the pissed off look made me look somewhat deranged I thought. You will be your normal lovely self-hair, skin,smile and disposition. No worry. frank
Hold up, you mean now my eyebrows are going to take on a mind of their own? And I am going to look older??? Yikes! That's all I friggin need...and then my hair should fall out on top of it all...??...oye...But you say you bounce back and become normal once again??? Please tell me you return to normal...
Cin
You know, I am a survivor from that last graduating class of MH--joined them late and remained after the majority of them had finished tx. Back in the old days, my child, which is to say only just a few months ago that could have been years, there was always much talk about hair or the lack of it and eyebrows suddenly going vertical. And not only on the full moon, either. It seems to be an overnight phenomenon. You wake up, confront the mirror for the first time, and go into shock: What the f-----! One thing I've noticed, tho': as much as you experience accelerated aging while on tx, and boy is it horrifying to fast forward and get a glimpse of yourself in the debility of old age, most of it reverses itself even while you're still on. I had never looked my age before until this treatment, and there was a point when....oh well, never mind. It's still too close. But thanks be the goddess, the bad dream ends. After only three days without swallowing riba, my dear friend Peg (1b, late 50s, treated for 72 weeks) actually looked like she'd spent a year at a spa. A whole brand new woman.
I guess I was so busy looking at her smile that I forgot to notice her eyebrows.
I've done the weaning off/withdrawal thing every time I've come off my meds and yet, I still take several months to get the meds out of my system enough to be able to say that I feel normal again.
Susan
No withdrawals here. My biggest problem was my impatience to get all my energy back. It came back very fast.......I just wanted it NOW and it took a few wks. Felt better and better every day off the meds.
Good luck to you.
I don't believe tapering off these drugs is a very common practice.
As Eisbein mentioned, riba has long half life, so the taper here is built-in.
As far as peg goes, I've heard of "withdrawal" anecdotally, and even think I've experienced it myself sometimes on day 7, but personally, I will follow standard protocol and make my last full shot, my last shot.
"Withdrawal" be d*mn. When I've finished my weeks, I'm FINISHED with this stuff. :)
-- Jim