Hi This is a poll. Did you lose your hair? If you DID what did you do about it and if you DID NOT, did you do anything to prevent it?

I just had my surgery last friday and this is something that I've been worried about. Thanks for your input!

I'm going thru that now. I've lost about half of my hair. It started getting real bad about 3 weeks ago. My surgery was June 1st. I made sure I got in 2 to 3 protein shakes a day since the very beginning. That was between 60 to 90 grams a day. I took Biotin tablets hoping to prevent it. I don't think anything can prevent it. It won't happen to everyone, but those of us that it does happen to, I really don't think there's a way to stop it.

I've been wearing a sun hat, but today I went and bought 2 wigs. The lace ones aren't too bad. They actually look better than my hair. A lot of my scalp was showing.

My GP says my hair will probably start coming back in about 4 months. I had a second surgery in July (not related to LAP-BAND®), so he thinks it was the trauma of 2 surgeries so close together.

Not more than a year out, but hair loss tends to peak around 4-6 months postop (because the trauma of surgery interrupts the growth cycle).

Starting preoperatively, I focused on getting 80-100 g protein/day. I started bariatric Vitamins preop, as well. Postop I added Biotin and zinc. When loss started, I used Nioxin shampoo and conditioner, at my doctor's recommendation.

At 8 months, the loss has pretty tapered off, and regrowth is occurring.

Even though I did all the "right" things, I think I did them more to make myself feel as though I was doing something when, in fact, the loss would have occurred anyway.

Still, it didn't hurt anything!

Yes I lost a lot of hair. Thankfully I have a lot of hair to lose. But I had to have a repair at 9 months and lost hair again.

I have had other surgeries any never lost hair. I don't know why we do with the band. The dermatologist recommended Biotin. I take it but don't know that it helps.

My hair is growing back after the second surgery now so I have three lengths of hair.