Today is my 3 months post-op and for a couple of weeks I've been loosing a ton of hair everyday I take my vitamins and 70-80grams for protein everyday but still my hair is coming so I bought biotin yesterday I hope that this will help with hair lost or and promote more hair this an example of my hair lost

Is that hair lost at one time? I ordered biotin online and it should be arriving today. I'm terrified of this! Lol. Here's to hoping it works! I'm only 2 wks post op so I want to get a jump on it now.

@ jdhenin this hair lost was from this morning :-( I hope that u get urs soon and that is great u starting now to avoid this issue later or not lose a lot

oh man. Well on the bright side, they say it's only temporary. It will grow back

t hair loss is a side effect of our surgery and Biotin will help with hair regrowth. The good news is that the hair will grow out with or without biotin. I take biotin and silica and just read something by Dr Weil about eating foods high in Omega 3's and taking a GLA supplement (primrose). This was not anything related to wls, but for both men and women. I noticed that with me, I am growing a loof hair in private places that I prefer it wouldn't grow. hehe

@ dorrie robles silica okay I'm going to try that too thanks

Hello just an update on Biotin pills I have been taken it for a week and I'm seeing results these are the ones I'm using

Before using biotin and the after of using biotin

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This is kinda soon to see results in a week. I loose hair at different rates on a daily basis. I'm not trying to discourage you. It can happen. Actually, biotin assists in hair regrowth, not stopping it from falling out. Hang in there, no matter how much hair falls out, it will grow back. CONGRATS and welcome to VST.

Not really much we can do to stop our hair from falling out temporarily after WLS. There are 3 phases to hair growth. In one of them the new hair pushes out the old and we shed it naturally but the new hair is right behind it so we don't notice it. After WLS the phase where the new hair pushes out the old stops so we lose what we would normally lose but there is no NEW hair right behind it as that phase stops briefly during weight loss. After a month or two this phase restarts and our hair starts to regrow again. We will not go bald but we will lose some hair no matter how many supplements we take so it helps to keep things in perspective. We have gained so much with our WLS so if we lose temporarily lose some hair the trade off will be sooo worth it. Since I know that hair loss is inevitable I cut my hair very short the day before surgery in hopes of boosting the new growth phase before it shuts down temporarily in the next month or two. I hope this stimulates new growth before that cycle shuts down. Most hair loss will occur between months 3-6 and it will stop shortly thereafter. A good friend of mine just finished this process. Her hair started thinning 3 months out and now 8 months later she has a full and thick head of hair like it never even happened.

Ur are so right about that I was so excited I need to show this I also noticed that my multivitamin chewable only had 5mcg and this one has 5000mcg but ur right the hair does fall out in phases thanks :-D

@ slimthickens and dorrie ur guys have a point thanks :-D