Hair Loss - it's official

DeLarla · July 20, 2004

Today my shower stopped draining. I was taking a bath instead of a shower, so I had to get the plunger out. Damn, a wad of hair the size of 2 golfballs came up from the drain. I just cleaned that drain a couple weeks ago. I have longish kinda hair, so I have to clean the hair from the drain every month or so, but only half that amount usually comes out. So my Hair loss has increased by 5 or 6 times its normal rate. Any mathemetician wanna correct my percentage based on listed facts (don't throw your other shoe at me.)

Is this permanent? Should I start buying scarves now? Meanwhile, my friend bought me a bottle of hair & nail Vitamins. I've been taking them daily. Not sure if they'll help, but they can't hurt.

Penni60 · July 20, 2004

Is this permanent? Should I start buying scarves now? Meanwhile, my friend bought me a bottle of hair & nail Vitamins. I've been taking them daily. Not sure if they'll help, but they can't hurt.

This is not unusual to lose some hair during this process. Make sure you are taking in enough Protein. The Vitamins should help too. If you are really concerned then go see someone about it. I know there is Rogaine for women now you can get over the counter. My hair is not falling out any more than it did before the surgery. But I started with a thick head of hair so I probably wouldn't know until it was gone. LOL!!!!

This too shall pass.

donali · July 20, 2004

Normal phenomen. No, it isn't permanent. There's a lot of debate about what, if anything can be done about it.

I personally tend to side with the "nothing you do will make a difference" camp, but then I'm lazy and hate taking Vitamins and spending money on super fancy specialized stuff that never seems to work for me anyway.

It will eventually stop - honest.

claraluz · July 20, 2004

I wish I knew what to tell you, but I'm in the same boat - but I've been banded a lot longer and it's only in the last few months that I've really noticed the hair loss. It's getting to be an obsession with me. I know that I never really get enough Protein so I think in my case that may be the problem. I just hate eating Protein so much that it's hard for me. What I can't figure out, is why now? I was a complete vegetarian before getting banded. I'm sure I get more protein now that I've started eating meat again (yuk). I have definitely upped the Vitamins since this started.

Well, if this continues, maybe we can put our heads together and come up with one head of hair.< /p>

Good luck!

Nancy

Alexandra · July 20, 2004

I'm with Donali in thinking there's not much that we can do about it. My thinking is that any bodily trauma will result in hair loss, including surgery. After having my children I lost lots of hair starting about 4 months later, which continued well into the second year of their lives both times. But it never got to a point where anyone *else* noticed, and it definitely stopped. Same thing has happened to me now. All I've done is to cut my hair a bit shorter, which makes the thinning less noticeable.

Well, if this continues, maybe we can put our heads together and come up with one head of hair.

LOL!! I love it.

hagerteresa · July 20, 2004

My hair is already kind of thin naturally. I am dreading the day I notice I am losing it. I know jelatin is supposed to help hair and nails. What do you have to do with the jelatin is the question. Do you eat it, or soak your nails in it? Teresa

DeLarla · July 21, 2004

I won't spend any fancy money till Nancy and I get together and weave our fallen out hair into one wig that we'll share. Can I have even days?

I'm taking hair and nail Vitamins, but only because they were a gift and they cost about 30 bucks.

I've spent my entire life trying to take Vitamins every day but have never been able to take them for more than a few days before forgetting about them. However, now that I'm banded, my morning Protein shake is working really well into my schedule, considering I never ate Breakfast before. I have the shake down to a science. Milk, banana, berries, a Fiber pill, multi vite, hair vite, Protein powder mixed with Instant Breakfast. It sounds gross, but it's actually not bad, and I've been mostly consistent.

So I won't worry about it since worrying will just make more fall out. I was just really shocked at the double golf-ball-size wad of hair that came out of the drain today. So we'll all be bald beautiful hotties after all our weightloss... we'll start a trend of flabby bald people that fit into small clothes.

claraluz · July 21, 2004

Lisa, re: the wig:

I have short curly black hair. I'm trying to picture how we can combine this with your long blonde tresses and come up with something that I could wear to work

Nancy

donali · July 21, 2004

I know jelatin is supposed to help hair and nails. What do you have to do with the jelatin is the question. Do you eat it, or soak your nails in it?

Teresa - you eat it/drink it. I don't think it has any topical benefits.

leo · July 21, 2004

It will stop after a while, All my hair grew back and its as thick as it ever has been now.

DeLarla · July 21, 2004

Nancy, problem solved. THANK YOU LEO because I really needed to hair that. HAHAH, that was a good one, eh?

hagerteresa · July 22, 2004

Thanks Donali, maybe I'll have to try that out. I wonder if it has ever worked for anyone? I know it works for horses that have thin poor hooves.

Here is my theory on my thin hair. Please feel free to correct me if my theory is way off base. If somebody were to put a ton of little black marker dots on a balloon and then blow it up the dots would be spatially further apart than when we initially put the dots on the balloon. I am under the assumption that we are born with a certain number of hair follicles and I am really hoping that as my head gets smaller and less fat and round those dots will start to come back together again therefore making my hair look thicker... My hubby and mom cracked up when I contemplated this theory to them but I am hoping it might work. LOL.

Teresa