No it's not because of the protein, it's because of all the hormones that are trapped in our fat cells that are being released as we lose weight.
Also I know for myself if it were all protein I would have bald as a baby's ass before WLS and only now would I be growing hair.

Try adding Biotin to your vitamins--I take 5,000mg a day it will NOT make your hair grow back faster but I will make the new hair a lot stronger...but know you'll be shaving your legs, armpits, etc.. alot more.

You can also try a cute short sassy haircut for a few months and coloring your hair thickens the hairshaft so you'll appear to have more hair.

I hope you find answers and solutions to the problems you have been having. How are you doing now?

Corina

Hi -- I think all of us are nervous, it's a protective instinct.

I'd love to see a chart of WLS stats next to one outlining outcomes of of things we do all the time:
drive a car, have an injury at home, have other invasive procedures.  Think about c-sections and coronary by-pass surgeries that happen every day.

Statistics only apply to populations, not individuals.  That can comfort or make anxiety worse - it's all in how one looks at it.

The way I've come to see it, life is a crap shoot.  Make the best educated guess/choice you can.

For me, having a surgeon I trust to really know me as best as s/he can is at the core of this.  I can't think of a situation where having trust in place is as important, other than childbirth.

I have been researching this to finding out I have a candy cane roux limb of 5 cm.  I am two and a half years out.  A year ago December, I got really sick and had to be hospitalized...they had no idea what was wrong and sent me home...it has happened a few more times since...and I've had one exploratory surgery (after not eating for a few days).  So they found nothing.

I just had a scope done at Mass General in Boston and she found the candy cane limb.

There is only one article out there (one study) that I can find, and one person's story if you google it.  I am looking for info as well.  I am so sick of being sick all the time and vomiting after eating.  I'm anemic all the time, constipated all the time...and my pain goes up to a level 10 at times but no one will treat me because they don't know "for sure" what is causing the pain and because i'm a former "fat" person with food addiction issues, they think automatically I'm an addict and can't have meds.  I have wished that i would fall and BREAK something so that they would have to give me something for pain...how sad is that????????

I am hoping now that I have these reports that my original surgeon will help me.  Other than that...I'm not sure what to do.  I don't want a reversal...I just want to be well.  I feel like I"m going to pass out all the time.  And yes, I dump VERY badly after certain foods...so I know the difference.  I actually appreciate my dumping syndrome because if I could eat ice cream, I'd be in big trouble :)

 

So if anyone has any information, please please please share.  I'm in New Hampshire and it's only been an active weight loss hospital for five years.

 

Thank you!
karen

 

Hi,
I wonder how much of it has to do with anesthesia as well.  I have had issues with calories/protein, but I have also had 5 surgeries in less than a year and my biggest losses in hair has always followed surgery.  I know there are things that people swear by that you can take, but they are expensive.  I can tell you from many bouts of this that it does slow down/stop and you will start to see the little baby hair starting to grow back soon.  Hang in there!