Before my surgery, I usually wake up to have about average 5-7 hairs on my pillow. When I shampoo, I usually see about 10-15 hairs on my hand. I like to use my finger nails to scratch when shampooing because I feel itchy. This rate of 10-15 hair changes with time. Sometimes more and sometimes less.
After my surgery, I just run my finger through my hair with shampoo from fore head to back 3-4 times with my fingers and I get more than 30 hairs. I consistently get as many hair falling for past 2 months.
Unless you really count the hair on your hand after shampoo, you won't be able to estimate properly when the hair count is more than 10 because you will be emotionally frustrated to see the hair loss. Moreover some of the fallen hair may not be on the hand but among the shampoo on the head. It will be even harder to estimate the number of hairs that are washed away by the water during rinsing. I suspect to be much more.
I don't know the "normal" rate of hair fall. If your hair can replace the fallen ones, I think it should be ok. I had a colleague who went for chemo. When I visited his house, his floor are littered with hair. After he stop his chemo, he has more hair than I do.
I do get a gradual increase in hair fall a few weeks prior to my surgery. But I don't remember the side and back hairs are also falling at high rate.
My doctor says the hair loss is due to my body concentrating its nutrient to repair the wounds and prescribe multi vitamins for me. Don't work after taken for 2 weeks. Just because of what he says, I take 2 eggs every morning for the past 2 months. Also never work.
Now I hope to grow the hair back. Hope that the hair roots are not destroyed by the fungus.
