For the past 5 weeks, I’ve been losing lots of hairs everyday, I am very concerned with it.

The hair loss started in my 3rd month post-op. I don’t know what caused it.

I haven’t had good restriction with my band even though I've had 6 fills.

I eat almost 2 cups of food each meal and I consume around 100-120 grams of protein everyday together with plenty of vegetable. I take biotin 3 times per day, also drink benefiber so I wouldn’t have the constipation issue.

I mean, I have been consuming more than enough nutrients everyday and my weight loss is kept at a slow pace (around 1-1.5 lbs each week), why am I losing so much hair? This is so scary! Another thing is I’ve been staying on the birth control pills before and after the surgery. However, when I had the surgery in March, I stopped the pill on the surgery day and a couple of days after the surgery, therefore it broke my cycle. I don’t know should I attribute the hair loss to that or the surgery.

Edited July 1, 200917 yr by EmmaWang

I am 6 months post op and have been losing hair for about 2 months now. I was told exactly what the PP posted about surgery and hair loss. My Dr said it will thin for about 2-3 months then grow back fuller than it was before.

Don't worry, this is normal..my loss has slowed down in the last week!

Thanks for the info. I've been having hair loss for almost 2 months now. Hopefully it would stop soon just like what your doctor said.

I have read, and know from experience, that hair loss can be a result of hormonal changes (ie: on/off birth control pills, body changes post op).

7 months prior to surgery I stopped taking birth control pills. I had hair loss for 5 months...very freaky! It had finally stopped, I had a couple months off...I'm now 3 months post op, and it's falling out again. My hair dresser had told me prior to surgery that she could see new growth...so, there is hope!

Strange part for me post op is that I have not lost a lot of weight (13 pounds) so it's not as if my weight loss is SHOCKING my system!! LOL

Hang in there...this too shall pass!

WOW, 5 months of hair loss sounds scary. Maybe it was the combination of missing birth control pill after the surgery and the surgery iteself that made me having hair loss too. Let's hope both of our hair loss stop soon. Thanks for the response.

Regardless of what is happening to your body, I was always told that losing weight results in hair loss or thinning hair.

I am just under 4 months post-op and I have not noticed any difference in the amount of hair I lose. I have hypothyroidism and have always lost around 20-30 hair strands in the shower each morning. This is just an estimation since I don't actually count them. I hope all of you have had your TSH, T4 & T3 tested to rule out hypothyroidism.

I am at 3.5 months post op and started losing my hair about 3 weeks ago. I have heard several possible reasons such as Protein, Vitamin B, Iron, thyroid, and stress. I am hoping that one of these is my issue and it will grow back. I plan to go for blood work this week to make sure all functions are normal. Thanks for the insight into Biotin. I think I will get some today.

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