Hello everyone I go in for surgery this month and I heard your hair may fall out so I was wondering What's the best vitamin to take please help thanks in advance

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The thinning/losing of hair can be attributed to a couple of different things, if it happens to you at all. Human hair "lives" on a roughly 3 month cycle. The hair you were just popping out at the time of surgery will tend to fall out anyway at about your 3 month post-surgery mark. What adds to normal hair loss this is...because of the massive changes your diet goes through with bypass surgery, your body will go into "Shock" mode and try to preserve any and all Protein for muscle mass & organ function- not for things like pretty skin, lovely nails and full, lush hair. This is one of the reasons surgeons stress to be sure you eat protein first and get your full recommended grams. Every. Single. Day. If you give your body the protein it needs, you'll not only be helping to preserve muscle mass, but you may also limit/reduce the amount of "shock" you put your body through and therefore potentially lessen the additional hair loss. With that being said, there's a compound available at places like GNC called Biotin. It's created specifically to promote healthy skin, hair and nails. But remember... nothing is guaranteed. You could take Biotin, get all your protein, and still experience hair loss, or not take it and be perfectly fine. No two people are the same.

You also have to pay attention if you have hypothyroid. I dropped 40lbs in my first 5 weeks. My hair started falling out very dramatically. I went in to have all my levels checked to see if it was iron, protein or my thyroid. It turned out that everything was normal with the exception of my thyroid. I had lost weight so quickly and was now taking too much replacement.