POLL: Did you lose your hair?

[vega1star 0]

Hi This is a poll. Did you lose your hair? If you DID what did you do about it and if you DID NOT, did you do anything to prevent it?

[vega1star 0]

I just had my surgery last friday and this is something that I've been worried about. Thanks for your input!

[CarolWA 0]

I'm going thru that now. I've lost about half of my hair. It started getting real bad about 3 weeks ago. My surgery was June 1st. I made sure I got in 2 to 3 Protein Shakes a day since the very beginning. That was between 60 to 90 grams a day. I took Biotin tablets hoping to prevent it. I don't think anything can prevent it. It won't happen to everyone, but those of us that it does happen to, I really don't think there's a way to stop it.

I've been wearing a sun hat, but today I went and bought 2 wigs. The lace ones aren't too bad. They actually look better than my hair. A lot of my scalp was showing.

My GP says my hair will probably start coming back in about 4 months. I had a second surgery in July (not related to LAP-BAND®), so he thinks it was the trauma of 2 surgeries so close together.

[BetsyB 9]

Not more than a year out, but hair loss tends to peak around 4-6 months postop (because the trauma of surgery interrupts the growth cycle).

Starting preoperatively, I focused on getting 80-100 g protein/day. I started bariatric Vitamins preop, as well. Postop I added Biotin and zinc. When loss started, I used Nioxin Shampoo and conditioner, at my doctor's recommendation.

At 8 months, the loss has pretty tapered off, and regrowth is occurring.

Even though I did all the "right" things, I think I did them more to make myself feel as though I was doing something when, in fact, the loss would have occurred anyway.

Still, it didn't hurt anything!

[pickles123 0]

Yes I lost a lot of hair. Thankfully I have a lot of hair to lose. But I had to have a repair at 9 months and lost hair again.

I have had other surgeries any never lost hair. I don't know why we do with the band. The dermatologist recommended Biotin. I take it but don't know that it helps.

My hair is growing back after the second surgery now so I have three lengths of hair.