Hi. I was sleeved on 8/3. I'm exactly a month out. I was wondering when is the typical timeline for when hair starts to fall out?

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I got sleeved 17th March and it's been falling out the last 2 months. I already had thin hair so it's noticeable to me, but no one else has noticed it, they just notice the strands of hair all over my knitted vest for work lol.

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I'm so afraid of the hair loss. It already have lost and gotten thinner hair from my thyroid. I've always had longer hair but thin hair. I guess I will become the weave queen. Lol!

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That's what I'm completely afraid of, I'm extremely thin on top in front already. I use powder type stuff now to try to fill in...

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I'm just going to roll with it - I can't stress about what might happen. Stress can't help the matter any!

Mine began three months after my surgery and it's still going. I noticed it has slowed down luckily I had a lot of hair so it's not noticeable. Surgery date 4/12

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I'm at 4 months out but I haven't experienced hair loss.

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Start using hair,skin and nail Vitamins and I had very minimum hair loss and now very long and thick hair.

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They say it's all about getting enough Iron and Protein. .. I keep up on that, take Biotin for good measures. And use biotin shampoo once a week. I am almost 2 months out and so far no hair loss

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Start using hair,skin and nail Vitamins and I had very minimum hair loss and now very long and thick hair.

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What brand do you use? I'm looking for one.

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My doctor told me I can avoid hair loss if I'm diligent about getting sufficient Protein......he recommended 75 grams a day. I just had my surgery on 08/18/16 so I'm really hoping he's right.

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lmao I got a minimum of 75 grams of protein per day starting within 24 hours of surgery, and ate high protein for several weeks pre-op. I got my iron. I got my biotin. I got my zinc. And still, massive hair loss. Let's face it -- if there were a sure fire way to avoid hair loss, none of us would lose hair. It wouldn't be a secret. It's not like people just don't care about losing hair and haven't tried basically every formula you can think of.

I had hair loss between months 3-6

has slowed down considerably

Vitamins, Protein, etc will NOT prevent hair loss.

Of course not eating enough protein etc will make the hair loss worse, but exceeding protein goals and taking Biotin will not make the hair loss go away, it will just make regrowth more consistent, and faster

look up telogen effluvium after surgery. that is the condition that results in hair loss after surgery

Zinc actually can prevent the hair from breaking so taking a supplement can decrease the chance of hair loss. Ask for your zinc levels to be checked if it's bad.

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I totally agree with Crazyplantlady. My hair loss began at around 3 mths and lasted till around 5 1/2-6 mths. I was terrified the first time I found a huge (and I mean huge like a baseball size) wad of hair in my shower and continued to be until it just kind of slowed down. I have always had super thick wavy hair so I'm use to some light shedding but that scared the crap out of me. Anyway... I'm just over 6 1/2 months out and I'm glad to say I'm back to normal, phew!!! I did take all my Vitamins with Biotin and ate all my Protein but I'm not sure if it really helps. You may be one of the lucky ones who doesn't suffer with this!

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Notice the men rarely weigh in on this topic? Seriously, is it a female issue for the most part?

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I am 4 months out and it started falling out bad 2 days ago!!! I get all my Protein so I thought I was going to be get by without it happening but it is not looking that way. GRRRR