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I am 60 years old and weigh about 80 lbs more than I 2 ant to. I had trouble with my band sliding so we my do and I to have me do the bypass revision. I am doing good no problem getting enough Protein or Water, see the Dr Monday for 1 week check up. Little worried about Hair loss. Anyone got ideas to prevent it

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Take Biotin but from what I have researched it may happen anyway. It does grow back.

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I take 5000 mg of Biotin every day and was a band to bypass revision my nails and hair look amazing now I am 4 months out from revision surgery.

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One of the reasons why people suffer hair loss is that they do not adhere to the Protein requirements. So make sure that you take the Protein supplements each day.

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I am 5 days out so far so good had two days of taking pain Meds because I needed them. I take at night to get in a comfortable position the worst part is I am board, my husband is going to help me did out criss stitch items to work on sat. I got to eat cream Soup 2 test and it pretty much filled me up. Worse part is stitches are healing and they itch hopefully I won't scratch in my sleep. Any one there wants to talk I am hear

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Oh, thank you for bringing up boredom. I have started a room in the house where I'll hangout for recovery. I had a C-section with a very slow recovery. I'm not going to get caught in that situation again. Must plan what to do while I "hang out" because I get bored very easily. There is only so much TV I'll be able to watch in a day, right?

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I am 62 and gad my surgery 4 days ago. Looking forward to feeling better and better. Got any speedy recovery stories. My strategy is to stay positive.

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Hey ladies, how is it going? I would love to know how you are doing. My legs looked thinner to me already. And my clothes are already loose. It's only been 1.5 weeks. Amazed.

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Had my gastric bypass Nov of 09 but gained back 60 lbs. I want a revision. Anyone here have one?

what could you be revised to? Have you tried the 5 day pouch test to get back on track?

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