Will Your Hair Grow Back?

[Lucky Lady 702 3]

I'm losing my hair and I hate it I'm taking Biotin but is there anything else that will help for growth??

[Houston17 115]

I'm still pre- op but I've seen on the site that Nioxin Shampoo is good to help slow down the loss. I actually used this years ago when I went on a crazy diet and started loosing hair. I have very thick hair and my stylist noticed as well. She is the one that recommended the Nioxin. I also took zinc but definitely check with ur doctor before doing that. I'm happy to say that my hair did grow back and is back to being thick again! Good luck!

[Lucky Lady 702 3]

Thank you I'm gonna go buy some I also have thick full hair and I don't want to lose it and I'll get zinc too.

[kamrie37 134]

My hair is super thin.... I am really scared about going bald. I hope it will grow back

[Wheetsin 714]

Pasting a previous response rather than retyping. The short answer is yes, your lost volume should return as soon as your hair follicles reenter anagen.

Hair loss generally starts a few months after surgery. About 3 months seems to be really common. Sometimes less, not too often more. How long it lasts varies greatly. When I had my lapband it lasted about 6 weeks (the worst part), and about 8 - 10 weeks total. It was over 6 years ago so I'm getting sketchy on the details.

It is primarily a nutritional thing. There are no set correlations to surgery, though some people do have that reaction. There are people who will lose hair if they have anesthesia, regardless of surgery or not. In my case I have had:

Lapband surgery - lost hair significantly.

Gall bladder removed - no hair loss at all.

Lapband removed - no hair lost at all.

Sleeve - no hair loss yet, but I'm still a pup... it's coming, I have full confidence.

The only time I lost hair has been when it coincided with extreme changes to intake/nutrition. I see this pattern most of the time.

There's no research indicating that Biotin supplements help (or hurt) with hairloss from bariatrics. That doesn't mean don't take it, it just means take it with the understanding that you might be disappointed. It could be that it helps, but it could also be that the hairloss had run its course and was ready to stop anyway. I'd love to see some actual research done on this (and Nioxin) because the bariatric community is probably keeping those markets alive.

The best result I've seen personally was a girl who got really hairy arms, but continued to lose her head hair.

[FishingNurse 1,211]

I'm almost 10 months out and I lost a ton of hair month 3-6. Now I have an entire inch of regrowth all over. Yes it grows back!!!