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Ok so it's eight months since my surgery and my hair is still falling out... I get enough Protein, I take Biotin, Vitamin b, multi vitamin, use nioxin shampoo and it is still not getting better. It is now to the point of others can notice... You can tell when people are looking at the top of your head and not your eyes when they talk to you! I have only lost 60 pounds so it's not like I have lost massive amounts of weight as would be the problem with gastric bypass...so they say. Anybody else experience hair loss for this amount of time... I was hoping it would turn aroung at six months like I have seen others post... Any feed back would be helpful... I think it's time to go see the doc to figure out what is wrong with me... I would rather be fat with hair then thin and bald! :thumbdown:

I am nine months out and still losing it really bad. I am actually going to my primary on Monday to see if there are some underlying issues going on. I have to do something fast. All the hair loss in on top closer to my hair line where my bangs would be and about half way back. It is very noticiable. I am wondering if is also some hormone problems going on. I wil see. I am taking biotin, pre natal vitamins and using the nioxin shampoo...

I love the weight loss, but between the wrinkles on my face, the hanging skin and my boobs looking like what I image a 90 year old's boob would look like this is getting a little gross!:sad: I have lost a cup size and that does not make me happy! Hubby liked the fun bags! (he is banded also so he is very understanding even though no excess skin on him...urrrrrrrrrrrrrrr:angry:) How is everyone else doing with this! I have about 100 pounds to go so I can't even image how much worse this is going to get and I never realized how the excess weight kept my face unwrinkled... What are you all doing to fight back! One thing I realize is I now understand why people have plastic surgery... I figure I will need about 30K worth to make me happy when this is all done:thumbup: Chime in... I would love to hear all my sista's stories so I no I am not alone in this irony of losing weight feeling great and the flip side of what the hell is happening to my body! :wub:

Well all of us flabby, saggy, wrinkly girls will just unite and take over the world! Thanks for the good words!

You gotta love the banded life!

Thanks Mickey! I know, so many people go through hair loss with chemo and I shouldn't be so vane, but when you always had hair that people commented on it's so hard to deal with... especially being overweight and that was one of the few compliments you got... Along with the ever famous, you have such a pretty face, comments... That always made me laugh. Translation..you would be so pretty if you weren't so fat! Gotta love it! I hope it comes back or at least stops and I hope yours does too! :thumbdown:

I have the realize band and my port was painful for at least three months expecially when I would bend over to tie my left shoe... I can tell you it went away. My husband has the lap band, surgery same day, and he never had port pain nor did my son who also had the lap band. So I am convinced it was the realize brand that caused the pain. But no pain at all anymore so hang in there and just try to bend to the opposite side your port is on.

Just know a big mac and fries is not a slidder food nor is anything like that. Stick to that one rule and you will do fine. OMG!

WOW... that is all I can say.

Mine did the same... I swear it was under my rib. It stopped... I still get a pain every now and then when I tie my left shoe and I am 5 months out. It will go away.

LOL..you are correct it does sound depressing, but the weird part is that it isn't. It almost becomes a game in some sick way. A game I love. A game that has made food not really important anymore and that is the best part. You made a really good point Jachut... Every meal does involve some feeling you experience... I like that one! Oh well...back to my lunch that is sitting in my chest right now not wanting to cooperate. Silly little band just wants to play! He is such a prankster :smile:

I was thinking last night about the band and what a trip this really is. I read so much stuff pre band, asked so many questions and thought I had a pretty good idea of what to expect. But truth be told, you have no concept of what this is like until you actually live it. If you think about the entire process of what is going on it is pretty amazing. We are living with this foreign object in our body wrapped around our stomach, with a tube attached to it and another part attached again that we get injections with to make this object even tighter around our stomach every so often to make us not as hungry and we used to get. Then all the stuff you read about getting stuck, slimming, pb'ing. Again, you think you understand but you really have no clue until you live it. I also find it funny about the things we live with now. What your family and friends are used to when it comes to eating around you... We live with getting things stuck and kicking it out like it's normal! We live with not knowing if that chicken is going to go down today or not. You get to where you don't panic anymore you just deal with what comes your way that day... You family can look at you and just know you will be leaving the table for a minute, but you will be back. The ever dreaded business lunch! That is always good for some anxiety. I laughed last night before I went to bed because I drank a few GULPS of milk and NOPE that wasn't going to work... Kicked it out real quick in the sink, brushed my teeth and off to bed I went. No big deal its just a part of life now. liquids seem to love to come back out to play. Not always just sometimes when I drink to fast. Silly little liquids! I have the special treat of three banded people in my house so we have a lot of kicking out the stuck stuff going on... I never know who is going to tolerate what's for dinner. But we get by. There is always something else in the fridge to satisfy some hunger if what is on the table doesn't work that night. All in all now that I am 5 1/2 months out. It's just a way of life, it's a different way of life, but the best part is without really trying the weight is falling off all three of us and now this way of life is our normal way... So all you people that have a million questions of what it feels like, what to expect, how do you do this or that... we can tell you but you really wont get it until you get your band. Then you get to trip off the fact that you have an artificial buddy living inside you that is working it's hardest to get you happy and healthy... I love my band:thumbup:

I agree with you denouement...I am not happy with the way I look either... I am running out of creative combing options as the balding spot is getting worse and worse right on the top of my head near my bangs... But I will be patient as everyone keep saying... I just hope it really is the surgery that is causing this and not something else. I don't even know how I would find out... I keep thinking it hormones. We will see!

I waited a month and have no problem with anything non carbonated...but my Dr didn't say no alcohol... It's just a matter of useless calories.

That is fantastic... pat your self on the back! :thumbup:

I don't know what the big deal is either... Needing to be dramatic is all I can come up with. Mine takes a couple of minutes no pain and I hate needles. I have even watched my husband and son get their's done and they have a tough time finding the port, bit it still doesn't hurt them, just not fun.

I am getting between 60 and 90 grams of protein a day, so it's not always just protein. That seems to be the favorite answer. I also take two biotin tables and all the vitamins blah blah blah they told me to take everyday. I think if you are one of the unlucky ones to have this happen you just are and there is not much you can do about it except ride it out and see what happens.

That is a great story, both you and your husband. I't is nice to hear good stuff! Thank you for sharing:smile2:

Nice come back cruz...that was fricken awesome! That's the way you do it.

I find it funny that the 2nd most viewed thread was about marijuana use and its the third most commented on... It's late and I couldn't sleep... Just a useless fun fact!

Did you drink soda???? bad joke sorry.

Yah...Check out all the passion on the LBT... I love it! Let's talk about politics and religion now and see how that goes!

Ok TracyNYC, here you go! I think fluffy people don't like to give it back because we want to be invisible and know that the first thing a person is going to say if they want to put is down is comment on our weight... So that part is over... it's been said in so many words so now you just come back at em! EVERYONE has a flaw... Find the flaw and give them information on how to fix it. Big nose, pimples, bad hair, bad makeup, bad breath, wrinkles, ugly clothes. yada yada yada... You can pass on some names of plastic surgeons, cut out magazine advertisments for beauty products, or the lastest fasions, breath mints... I am sure they would appreciate your helpful hints... Just like they thought you would appreciate the diet they took the time to give you. Be just as helpful back.

Bottom line this whole thing is a crap shoot...It's either going to work or it's not... If your going to have complications, your going to have them. This goes for any of the weight loss procedures. You have to go with what you are comfortable with. I personally would rather have something that can be removed if I have problems, then something that can't. A slipped band and a flipped port can be fixed... I may be wrong but unattaching body parts and moving them can't be reattached like it never happened. But I didn't go to med school so I can be completely wrong. I have been around people that have had gastric bypass and they are eating and drinking all the things that supposedly would make them sick if they did. It may have bothered them in the beginning, but after time it was all tolerable, and they gained weight back. Maybe not all of it but some. Same thing can happen with the band. Look how many people post that it didn't work. But it seems everyone knows somebody either directly or indirectly that can tell you a gastric bypass horror story or worse...I would rather only lose 40 pounds and have to try something else, then to go through some of the stories I have heard. I don't want my port to flip either. How come some people are so successful at just dieting like weight watchers or nutri system... I think it was just their time and they did it. They keep it off because they are happier being thin and realized why they over eat. Probably they had a lot of good stuff going on in their lives, the weight was just holding them back from being even happier then they already were. Their lives changed for the better. Some others lose all the weight, keep it off for awhile and then gain it back. As far as I am concerned they never really got happy, their lives still sucked. They thought their lives sucked because they were overweight... Being overweight was a result of their sucky life... not the other way around. Something is still making them miserable so they start eating again. I think if you get your head around your problem, all of them can work. Maybe with the band you have more time to figure out why you over eat since it's slower... At least while you are figuring it out, your band could be helping a little at a time. Please don't think this band thing is easy... It's not. I't is frustrating, annoying, confusing and it causes pain in the beginning... but it is also a great tool that is working for a lot of people. I truly hope I don't have problems, because I love my little artificial body part and this is the first time since my twenties that I feel like I am going to be healthy and thin. I absolutely love it...so does my husband and my son who also have them. So again, bottom line just like everything else in your life, it's going to work or it's not. There are only two ways it will turn out you will succeed or you will fail and have to try try again. If you think about it everything we do in our lives have two options! Go with what you want, don't let anyone talk you out of it. Its your body, its your life. I have stepped down from my soap box now.