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i am 3 months out tomorrow and so far no hair loss for me...
Fingers crossed for some reason I will be spared...
Julie

 mine started about 3 1/2 months out, stopped about 4 months later..  it wasn't really bad, i just cut my hair short so it wasn't as noticeable....  turns out after i lost 100 lbs, i actually looked GOOD in short hair!  win-win!

some folks swear by biotin, other say it doesn't do anything except make your hair thicker when i grows back in...  my sis-in-law got me some nioxin shampoo, but it was too harsh on my hair, and didn't make any difference anyways...

it will grow back....   just look at it as a small price to pay on your way to being healthy!


jeris

My hair loss started at about 4-4 1/2 months post-op and is finally slowing down, but hasn't stopped and I am 7 months out. I have been taking biotin everyday for the last couple of years and I still lost major amounts of hair.  My hair has thinned out quite a bit but most people can't tell ( I have lots of hair), but boy oho boy can I tell. It used to bother me at first but I kinda stopped stressing over it because there is nothing I can do but wait it out.

Mine started around 4 months and lasted 6-8 weeks. I didn't lose so much that others noticed it, but did find that I had to mess with it a bit more when styling because it didn't sit the same. It was very short term for me.

I hear people recommend things like the biotin all the time, but I don't know that it works at preventing hair loss. If it did, probably everyone would take it! I think it's probably more likely to improve what's coming in as it grows back.

Mine started at about 4 mo and lasted about 2 mo. I lost quite a bit of hair, evenly all over though. Luckily I have a ton of hair to begin with so no one noticed except me, and my hair stylist. It started growing back a couple months later and now I have a bunch of hair that is about 3 inches long! No one but me seems to notice this either. Years ago when I had my lap band surgery I didn't lose any hair.

 The advice I was given was that you could minimize it by keeping your protein way up (60-70 for women, 70-90 for men).  

The paperwork I got from Dr. Aceves says that taking zinc is supposed to help with this; my husband was told getting in the right amount of protein makes a difference.

You would think there would be a more standardized way of dealing with this... but I guess if there was, we could come up with a way to allow cancer patients to keep their hair too.