Strictly Come Dancing’s Amy Dowden shares ‘heartbreak’ over most cancers remedy hair loss
Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden has spoken about her “heartbreak” as her hair begins shedding after her second spherical of chemotherapy remedy.
The 33-year-old, who joined the leisure collection in 2017, was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer in May and underwent a mastectomy.
In July, the dancer from Caerphilly, South Wales, advised followers she had obtained a second analysis of “another type of cancer” and has since been documenting her experiences to lift consciousness.
She stated she wished to be “open and honest” about her chemotherapy.
“What I’ve found harder this time round and the last few days is the hair shredding,” she stated in an replace to her Instagram followers.
“Even though I’m cold capping you hope to keep 50 per cent of your hair and there are also so many benefits to the hair growing back quicker too.
“But as a lot as I ready myself waking up day-after-day gently combing my hair with a large comb and seeing what comes out, it’s simply heart-breaking personally for me.”
Chemotherapy is a kind of remedy the place medication is used to kill off most cancers cells.
According to the NHS web site, hair loss is one among a number of unwanted effects which individuals can have throughout chemotherapy.
Others embody feeling drained or sick, a sore mouth and dry, sore or itchy pores and skin.
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Amy Dowden and McFly’s Tom Fletcher on Strictly Come Dancing. Pic: BBC/Guy Levy
Dowden, whose former Strictly companions embody Tom Fletcher from McFly, actor Danny John-Jules and comic Brian Conley, stated she did not “feel like me”.
“I’m only washing my hair once, max twice a week, not using any heat on my hair or styling it so I just don’t feel like me,” she added.
“So it’s time to bring out the wig I say and get used to this and help me feel like me.
“I do know this would possibly not final perpetually, however throughout this time and realizing usually these few months are my favorite time of the yr and I really feel myself wishing these months away simply hurts a lot.”
She thanked fans for “all the beautiful messages” she had obtained since her analysis.
Dowden, who married fellow skilled dancer Ben Jones in July final yr, beforehand stated she had discovered a lump in her breast the day earlier than she deliberate to go on her belated honeymoon this yr.