I'm going to be honest here - before I had WLS, I would look at people's before/after pictures and always notice a huge difference in their hair. After much research I became familiar with hair loss as being one side effect of of WLS. For the most part, it was temporary but my hair has never returned to its healthy, shiny, full state pre-surgery. I know I'm not alone when I look at other's pictures (sorry, don't mean to sound judgmental, but I've almost become an expert on being able to call out which skinny people have had WLS based on their lackluster hair!). I take vitamins and eat my protein requirement everyday. Is this my new normal? Dry, thin hair at 15 months post surgery? Any suggestions?

Signed,

Skinny Mop Head

(I had the sleeve, so malabsorption issues shouldn't be an issue here)

Edited June 23, 201511 yr by Bluesea71

I asked the surgeon about the hair loss and he looked at me and said I wouldn't notice it. My hair is curly (used to be thick until about 10 years ago) and now I have a lot of grey hair. Doc said if I wasn't losing some. hair (and tired) then I wasn't working the program. He said most feel tired and some lose hair if they are working the program because the body goes into shock because of the dramatic change in diet. Makes sense. Just sucks. My husband had no idea about either post surgical side effect and was surprised at both the questions and answers. It was THE only two I had - hair loss & lack of energy.

@@shellyd88 you said "and to add insult to injury my weight loss has slowed a lot last three weeks is about three lbs a week before was at least 6 lbs a week I'm down about 90 lbs since surgery in late February"

Honey, that is fantastic! I'm sorry about your hair though. Take some of the suggestions of others and in the meantime, wear a wig when you go out.

I guess it just seems so small compared to how it was at first I'm most nervous about seeing the dr and getting criticized for not losing more they tend to be very critical there they said I should lose 25 to 30 lbs a month that's not really happening so kind of feeling a lot of pressure and anxiety

I lost quite a bit of hair, and now my naturally straight and fine hair seems to be coming back curly and thick. I've always wanted curly hair, but if I ever got a perm, my hair would frizz and be very damaged, so no perms for me. All I do now is put a bit of styling mousse in my hair and scrunch it. Looks like I have a perm! Whenever it rains though... pooof it goes frizzy!