I want to know if EVERYONE experiences hair loss. And if so what percentage of people have major/minor hair loss.

I am post-opt, 14 months, and I still have some hair shedding. Not really hair loss anymore, but I sure did 3 to 6 months after banding. My doctor told me to take zinc, I take it occassionally, not like I should, I guess when I see more hair in the sink than I care to.

I have taken a lot of zinc since surgery, and for quite a few years before I had surgery. It's in my calcium magnesium and zinc tablets that I have taken for about 5 years. It sure hasn't helped me.

I'm not banded yet but I know the Dr. didn't say anything about hair loss !!! Oh no !!!

I am 5 1/2 months post op and I am shedding like crazy. I haven't noticed any bald spots but I can tell my hair is thinning. I am just eating a lot of protein and taking zinc along with multivitamin, fiber, calcium, and magnesium. Hopefully it will help.

Don't count on it. I have taken every single thing that anyone said would help. Nothing helped. I am sure it will stop eventually, but it's maddening to have lost half of my hair.

I am losing hair like crazy. it is starting to scare me. obviously or i wouldnt have searched for "hair loss" and found this thread!!

i cant believe it is from my diet. if that were the case half of america would be bald, too. i eat very healthy.

my thyroid levels are fine.

some have said it is a result of the anesthesia--this has given me some encouragement.

but if it continues i am going to a wig shop.

but if being thin means being bald and wearing a wig--i guess it is worth it.

I am 7 months out of surgery and my hair loss began at 4 months out. It was coming out every time I washed it by the handfuls. I started taking sublingual B-12's, Biotin, and really watching protein intake. It is now coming back...I have little short hair...Thick...all around my face...YEA!!!

i have to get some of this biotin. i hope it is not in big pill form. i take a large multivitamin--i break it up. i take sublingual B and chewable calcium and liquid fish oil.

according to the other posts, i am right on schedule. 4 months after surgery it started to fall out. i hope it comes back on schedule too.

i have to wash my hair every day. the drain is full. my trash can looks like sasquatch lives here!!

I also am experiencing hair loss. My doctor told me I need to get a blood test done to check my vitamin level and so forth. It is so sad to see your hair all over the place, sometimes in clomps. Oh, well, at least I feel and look better after 60 pounds off, I guess you can say!

I will get some of the sublingual vit B. I already take a B complex.

I already take Biotin. I should take more of it though. It says you can take it 3x per day. I only take it once.

My trash can in the bathroom looks like a hairdresser's does after she cuts people's hair all day long. I have to sweep it up every day. This is in addition to the handfuls that come out in the shower every day. I've heard it stops at 11 months, so I will let everyone know as soon an mine stops, if it ever does.

eleven Months!!!!!

i Will Be Yul Brynner By Then!!!!

I dieted years ago with redux and lost a lot of hair. Then I dieted again with Atkins and lost a lost of weight, but my hair ended up actually a lot thicker. This leads me to believe that it's the lack of protein that causes hair loss, so I'm going to try to work very hard to keep my protein up. When you are eating only a quarter or a half cup of food at a meal, that's going to be really hard.

I lost it with Atkins too....enough so that when it began happening with this, I was not too surprised, and also knew it would eventually come back.

I just had surgery again, so now I wait and see if it was anesthesia and general surgery that got me with MY hair, or if it was strictly diet related! Should be interesting.

My loss was significant----scarily so. It DID end, and it is growing back, thick and healthy. Hope it stays put!

Kat

but on Atkins you only eat protein. so how can that be it?

my hair is still coming out but i havent gotten any bald spots yet. no one has noticed my hair but they have noticed my weight.

i am taking biotin. and try to eat more protein and drink protein powder but am probably not getting enough.

and how come a teenage that lives on diet pepsi and cheese crackers still have a healthy head of hair?

i eat very healthy and am losing mine.

i am starting to believe it is because of all the hormones being released from the fat. fat does store a lot of hormones.

It could be something along those lines Debbie. I just know I also lost it when eating nothing but protein. And back when I was first banded, and was VERY strict with myself, making sure I was getting enough protein in to aid in my healing, it didn't prevent it. I tried the biotin, and I used the biotin shampoo from Sally's beauty supply. None of it seemed to matter.

At one point, in either this thread or another similar, the Dr. that advises on LBT on occasion was mentioning a hormone link was possible. I had blood work done, and I had good results, but our conversation was based more around the female hormones, and I have none, having had a complete hysterectomy. My question to him was whether someone on say birth control pills, had less loss--and the results seemed to be the same....some of us have the loss others do not! I was thinking maybe it made a difference if your body was used to handling the estrogen being released by the fat for instance.

Mine as I say has quit, and the regrowth is now several inches long...but I would love to know the cause, and prevention---as it was really traumatic!

Hang in there.....

Kat