Hello everyone. I just really need advice from others when it comes to hairloss. I suffer from androgenic alopecia, and my hair loss is permanent. I was told by my doctor before surgery that my hair COULD shed, but that if I ate enough protein, I wouldn't have to worry about that. Is there anyone else who suffers from alopecia that would be able to help me out? I was banded on June 8, 2012. Just afraid of being completely bald at 30, that's all.

I dont have alopecia but I did have a similar thing happen to me...I did the hcg diet for 100 days and was only consuming about 400 calories a day. Towards the end of that diet I started to lose a lot of my hair because of my low protein/calorie intake. It took about 3 months to get a handle on it by increasing my protein and taking a biotin supplement. Gained all my weight back from that diet of course. Just got banded a week ago and my doc didn't say anything about losing hair but did tell me to be intaking 60-70g of protein daily.

I'm definitely shedding! I'm pretty good, but not perfect, about getting my protein in. I have been taking Biotin for about a month and the hair loss seems to have decreased a little bit.

Well thank you for all the input :-) I have actually tried taking biotin last year (I believe it was 5,000 mcg) or something like that, and it actually caused me to put on weight. I quickly looked online to see if anyone else had experienced this, and there were some other posts on it. Perhaps I just need to try a lower dose. I will just continue to watch my protein intake for now and see how it goes from there.

This is the first i have ever heard of Biotin a B Vitamin causing wt gain. I dont believe that was the cause..

My multi vitamin has botin for hair loss I have been lucky and not lost much hair loss have lost 165 pounds in the last 18 months.

I don't have Alopecea, however I do know both surgery and not getting enough Protein in your diet can cause hair loss. I personally take 5000mcg of Biotin daily and am careful to get in all my protein daily.

I don't think Biotin was the cause of your weight gain, btw. There is no medical evidence linking Biotin to weight gain, in fact, Biotin helps you metabolize fats and carbohydrates more efficiently, helping to actually increase weight loss.

Here's a great article on it: http://www.livestrong.com/article/324249-effects-of-biotin-on-the-weight-loss/

Best wishes!

Thanks Missy... just what I was going to say!

My doctor asked me to add zinc to my list of vitamins to help with hair loss.