Good Morning everyone,

I am new to this whole forum so please bear with me. My gastric sleeve surgery is scheduled for 12/13/2017. I am both nervous and excited. I made a decision to go through with the surgery before nerves or emotions could get the best of my decision making processes. I am glad that I made a firm decision at that time because otherwise the nerves may have gotten the best of me. I am a fairly logical person by nature but there is one thing that I just cannot stop thinking about and that is hair loss. I am embarrassed because I know this will improve my health and that is the most important thing but I seem to be obsessing over this small problem. I have fairly long hair and I’d like to keep all of it. When I look at before and after images on this site I am in awe of how amazing everyone looks but afraid because it looks like a lot of people have cut their hair. (The logical part of me knows people but their hair every day, it’s the irrational part of me that assumes its all because of hair loss) Anyone have any advise on how to minimize hair loss? Any words of advice? Thanks in advance!!

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I don't have my surgery until December 11th, but I am super lucky in this area because my hair stylist had gastric bypass and has mentally prepared me. She said take your vitamins, biotin and make sure you are getting your protein *she had me upping my intake long before)! She also assured me that it will grow back. I also found a collagen protein that dissolves in hot liquids that gets raves reviews for hair growth (reviewers even show pictures and say their gray hair has grown back in darker).