Is hair loss a side effect of having the lap-band?
I never lost one hair .... I have always eaten lotsof fresh protein I bake my chicken breasts with a little drizzled olive oil on top and I also cook with fresh garlic I use olive oil and lemon juice or vinegar or italain dressing on my salads too... I have had many many surgeries too many to count!!
6/01/07 60lblost 7/5/07 -65lbs!.9/10/07.70lb.lost Sept26..75lb lost.10/29/07 80lbslost!11/12/07 85lblost.
Hair loss is a common side effect of general anesthesia and not the lap-band itself. The longer you are under, the more hair you tend to lose. I was under for 3 hours for my WLS and have lost about half of my hair. The loss has subsided, but the new hair has not started to grow back yet....almost 9 months out from surgery.
What Stephanie said. I lost hair with the surgery for the lap band, to get the lap band removes and every surgery I had after general anesthesia for long surgeries.
I took biotien to help get the new hair growing to it's healthiest and fullest. I also try to get 100-120 g protein a day and never go below 80 to avoid any more loss than the anesthesia did. I had a double whammy this time as the band was removed 4.5 months before being sleeved. So, I did everything I could to keep it at a min.