I havent got my operating yet, but I heard a lot about air lost after surgery. Did any of you take anything prior to the sugery to prevent hait lost ? Or even after ? Did it work at all ?

Be sure to get in your protein... that will help

I take Biotin and it helps but if you get thin hair its because of long term dieting and Biotin helps it grow back faster. You need to keep your protein up but theres not much else u can do to prevent it, same as sagging skin you either will get it or you wont. Once you hit maintenance weeight tho it should normalise ..

i lost all my hair, took biotin still didn't help, after month 6 it has started to grow back slowly

I lost hair like CrAzY about 6 months after surgery. I have a lot of hair and I was starting to really get worried. I did not take anything for it. Get lots of protien. It will all come back, mine did!

i lost all my hair, took biotin still didn't help, after month 6 it has started to grow back slowly

Are you actually telling me that you lost ALL your hair ? Completly bald ?

uff.... really? OMG I would have died.

For hair loss, be certain to meet your daily Protein goals, and take all of the Vitamins you are supposed to be taking.

I have not encountered this -- yet. Hope I don't...but the hair does grow back.

My hair started falling out about a month after surgery- hairbrush fulls, also some weird breakage. I have lots of hair, but it freaked me out! I started taking 7000 mcg biotin (1 1000 mcg in the am, 1 5000 mcg at lunch, 1 1000 mcg at night), and also L-lysine (I had just read it helped, but it's a HUGE pill I have to break in half). I have noticed a significant decrease in the hair loss- almost back to normal, and no breakage. I have always gotten in my protein, but still had the hair loss issue. Funny enough, after all 3 of my c-sections I didn't have any hair loss.

All of her hair.....no I don't think so. A large amount........ maybe. If she lost all of her hair it was due to an underlying condition. The loss we experience after WLS is known medically as telogen effluvium. Human hair follicles have two states: anagen, a growth phase, and telogen, a dormant or resting stage. All hairs begin their life in the anagen phase, grow for some period of time, and then shift into the telogen phase,which lasts for approximately 100 to 120 days. Following this, the hair will fall out. Typically, about 90 percent of hairs are anagen and 10 percent are telogen at any give time—meaning that we are usually losing a lot less hair than we are growing, so the hair loss is not noticeable. But sometimes this can change- Specific types of stress can result in a shift of a much greater percentage of hairs into the telogen phase. The stressors known to result in this shift, or telogen effluvium, include WLS. Hair loss will rarely last for more than six months in the absence of a dietary cause. Because hair follicles are not damaged in telogen effluvium, hair should then regrow. For this reason, most doctors can assure their WLS patients that with time and patience, and keeping up good nutritional intake, their hair will grow back. If hair loss continues after 6 months......iron deficiency is usually the cause.