I'm a little over 6 weeks post op, and I haven't started losing any hair yet. I've been dreading it! I was just wondering at what point you starting losing hair after surgery?

I have been losing SO MUCH hair. Drain plugs up during every shower, and I am wearing hats when I am in kitchen so hair doesn't fall into the family food. The right side of my head is more affected. My weight loss has really stopped also. 4 pounds in 7 weeks, so I have some crap go in' on. I don't have bald spots... Yet. Does this happen?

I'm happy to say that my hair loss is slowing way down. Just noticed this in the past few days. I don't have the hamster sized fur ball in the shower when it would come out by the hand full. There's a little, but pretty close to normal.

When I comb my hair afterward, and put in "stuff" I get a little loose hair on my hands. Again, not the hand full as before.

I think at 4.5 months I've turned the corner. I just want those going through it now to realize that it will stop :-) A lot of stress has been lifted, even though I knew I shouldn't have been stressing about it.

It got really bad for me around 4 months post surgery. I am not losing as much now (6 months out) but haven't noticed re-growth yet either.

For all the ladies that have lost a ton of hair can you tell me when did you start getting all your protein in after surgery? I heard this is the actual reason we lose hair that hair growth & loss is a 3-4 mos cycle so it all depends on how well you maintained your protein after surgery. I just want to see if there is any truth to that so of y'all could write how long it took to meet protein guidelines, how much protein you were getting and if you had noticeable hair loss. Thanks!! Maybe if we see a pattern we can help upcoming ladies!!