To the Survivors!

[Banderina 69]

Poll...

How long did your hairloss last? How was your regrowth? Go!

[♕ajtexas♕ 3,771]

I didn't loose any hair.< /p>

[CHEZNOEL 4,061]

My hair thinned significantly at around 7 months, is all back now maybe even getting thicker at 15 months.

[LuuLuu 62]

Mine thinned - and still does if I am not getting enough Protein. Seems like gobs come out in the shower. But I'm lucky and have a lot of it so there was some to spare.

[☠carolinagirl☠ 18,721]

3 to 4 months post op, alot showed up in the drain

but dr said Protein protein....completely stopped...

[lellow 1,713]

The diameter of my ponytail halved in the first year. But about 6 months in, I started getting little 'baby hair' appearing around my hairline and 4 years out my hair was back to normal.

[Maddysgram 6,159]

Knock on wood, so far no Hair loss

[taysidebell 176]

No Hair loss but kept Protein high at 60gr per day

[OldMomOf3 52]

This is a repost from something I wrote in February

I just wanted to report that my hair IS growing back! Whew!

I was banded June 2012

Started losing hair Sept 2012

A LOT of hair fell out from sept-Nov 2012

*When I say falling out I mean, cleaning hair brush every day, scooping out clumps of hair from shower every day, hair all over sink and bathroom floor, hair all over my clothes and pillow, hair on my car seat, hair on the floor all over the house, and 20-30 strands every time I ran my fingers through my hair. Just all kinds of hair everywhere. All of these things, every day. Normal Hair loss would be a strand here and there, clean brush weekly, a tiny bit in the drain, maybe. For me, the WLS hairloss was easily 20 times the normal hair loss.

1've been having normal hair loss since Deccember.

Feb 2013 I can see hundreds of new hairs, that stand about 1/2 to 1 inch high all over my head. Sometimes it looks funny, sometimes it acts like a root lifter by making my hair poof at the scalp. It is the same color as the rest of my hair.

I started taking bioten in October, but I do not believe it has had any real effect in terms of how fast my hair is growing. Also, since the same thing happened after I gave birth to each of my kiddos, and I was not taking bioten then, I'm concluding that the hair loss/regrowth cycle has simply run it's course.

I hope this encourages any of you who may be concerned about your own hair loss. I think it's somewhat common, it does eventually stop falling out and start growing back. Bioten probalby helps some, but not everyone, but appears to have no ill side effects (but don't rely on me for medical advice, ask your doctor).

[laurigee 545]

No Hair loss here either!

[blpchick 50]

Mine thinned somewhere around the 3 month mark and lasted about a month then it started coming back.

[kll724 3,055]

I did not lose hair. i have a then side, but it has always been thin. Best wishes, we don't all lose hair, just as we lose weight differently, karen

[Banderina 69]

My experience at almost the six month mark is this...Hairloss started at exactly two months out from surgery.

I started with long beautiful hair!

It increasingly got worse..my scalp hurt..it wld itch..i was afraid to wash my hair...i would go for days because i knew i was gonna lose about 300 hairs each time i washed it...Rapid hairloss!!...over 200 to 300 hairs a day! lasted a good ten to twelve weeks!!..I had many meltdowns and wld cry my eyes out...then it slowed..then it picked back up!...then it slowed...

I finally got up the nerve to go to the hairdresser..i cut about 4inches...i didnt color it. Once i cut it i noticed less shedding...but then it did pick up on some days..my advice dont be scared to get a trim...

Im still shedding alittle each day. No where near that horrifying amount i was experiencing. Im hopeful the worst is over.

Also..i took Biotin..vitamins..nioxin..iron..zinc..shen min....you name it. Im convinced none of it helped stop anything.It has to run its course, period.

Im surviving what i consider the worst side effect from this surgery/process...hang in there if its happening to you...when they say six months..its pretty much on the money.

I also bought hair makeup ..it works great since the front of my scalp thinned considerably...I bought it off the website Soft Surroundings for anyone interested..

Best wishes!