I was banded on December 7th and since mid-february I have had significant hair loss. Now I'm at post op week 17. My doctor said that I'm probably not getting enough protein in my body. I do eat protein, maybe not always the amount I should but my meals are predominently made up of protein. Is there anything I can take other than the b12 and multivits I'm already taking?

I take biotin 5000mg. Make sure you are consuming enough protein, good calculation to determine the amount in grams you need is body weight x 0.3= grams of protein.

I take biotin too and consume 60-70g of protein a day. I drink half of my protein in the morning for breakfast.

Biotin 5,000 mg available in tick tack sized capsules. Look around you can usually find a store selling two bottles for the price off one.

I would get a all protien shake for breakfast. Some of the whey protien shakes have 20 - 40 grams of protien in one shake. 40 is what you need each day. That might help.

Have toy ever had your thyroid checked? Losing hair can be a sign of a thyroid problem. It was for my daughter and myself. Just a thought.

I believe you need more than 40 grams of protein a day. At least 70

At 255 my dietician said a good amount of protein would be 75g. Now that I'm down to 235ish, I can have 70g.

The point of eating enough protein is so your muscles are fed properly and that your lean body mass does not decrease drastically as you lose. If you don't eat enough protein, you will still lose weight, but a lot more will be from lean body mass vs fat mass, which you don't want.

You do need more than 40 g of protein a day, Steph had the calculation- your body weight x .3. So my body weight is 249 x .3 =74.7 g protein a day. I also take biotin - 5-7000 mcg a day. It's helped, mine has almost stopped.

At 255 my dietician said a good amount of Protein would be 75g. Now that I'm down to 235ish, I can have 70g.

The point of eating enough protein is so your muscles are fed properly and that your lean body mass does not decrease drastically as you lose. If you don't eat enough protein, you will still lose weight, but a lot more will be from lean body mass vs fat mass, which you don't want.

Love your MONTHLY GOAL ticker! Great idea...

I am glad to read all of you posting that you need 75 grams of protien. My True Results consultant told me 40 grams. I now plan to ask at my next appiontment! I have learned so much from this site

Just throwing in that I've had some significant hair loss even getting all my protein in. I'm struggling b/c I'm not losing like some have....(banded 10/21/11 & only down 20lbs)...so when I asked my doc about the hair loss....strongly suggested Biotin (so I'm taking that now & it has helped a lot). But my doc also said they rarely see hair loss in lap band patients unless you've lost 60-70lbs really fast. Because lap band is not mal-absorptive we shouldn't suffer the hair loss risk that gastric bypass patients do. She suggested that part of my hair loss was from stress....and I think she may be right b/c I've been soooo stressed trying to find ways to eat all this protein & still lose weight...

And I think stress from just the surgery itself was part of mine. My hair also broke off weirdly.

Eat protein!!!!! I also take biotin as well, and some of the side effects of the meds they use to put you to sleep will also cause your hair to fall out.