Hair loss

dessalves
on 12/2/13 12:40 am

I was just wondering when the hair loss stops!!! I am 4 and a half months out and I've been losing my hair for the last month I think and I swear that if it keeps falling like this I am going to be bald!! Starting to freak out a little bit over here

        

Needanewbeginning
on 12/2/13 12:50 am - Barrie, Canada
RNY on 05/21/13

Mine has started to slow finally, but true its upsetting but it does stop. Even though I take tons of biotin it didn't help, it's just part of this journey, I will take my thinning hair over all the weight any day enlightened

Starting weight: 334 lbs.Starting opti weight: 323 lbs, Surgery weight 303 lbs.Surgery-May 21st, 2013 with Dr Hagen at HRRH Goal weight 165 lbs reached at 13 months. Current weight 156 lbs

     

Ocalasam
on 12/2/13 1:09 am
RNY on 12/18/12

I've heard the average is 3-6 months.  It does stop!

        

                                
Dee.spunk
on 12/2/13 1:14 am - Sacramento, CA
Mine didn't stop falling out until about month 14. Everyone is different. Some stop at 9 months and a lucky few, like me, stop after a year. (Totally sarcastic!)

But it does stop, and your hair will grow back. It's a small price to pay for getting healthy.

Height:5'1.5 RNY:11/30/11 HW:307 SW:234 CW:136 GW:140 (LOST 73 Lbs. PRE-OP)

 


 

Kahla L.
on 12/2/13 12:15 pm
RNY on 06/19/13

I swear I will be bald any day now and I'm 5 1/2 months out.  If I hadn't started with super thick hair, I don't know what I would do.  I won't even put my hair in a ponytail right now because it is so thin.  I'm praying it stops soon because I don't want to cut my hair off, but I'm not sure there will be a choice if this continues.  Others say they don't notice unless they actually tough it, but I notice!  My 4 year old seriously has more hair than me!  I keep telling myself it'll grow back and it's worth it (plus, I'm sure I've lost 2/3s of what I had and 1/3 is a lot faster to straighten)! ;o)


HW/SW/CW: 312/295/212 (RNY 6/19/13)

Katie B.
on 12/2/13 12:31 pm
We had our surgery on the same day! I too am going through this stage in "the process." I finally canned and got my hair cut today because it was looking so scraggly! Good luck and keep up the good work!
        
Bibo
on 12/4/13 2:59 am

I had a huge amount of hair loss before I dropped pounds..I would lose a lot of weight and stall, lose hair, lose pounds. I noticed that if I increased my protein and took a B complex it seemed to help a little, also brushing my hair more frequently during the day, so I wasn't "shedding" everywhere...I never took biotin, I spent the money on higher quality vitamins...it stopped eventually. It is a bit disconcerting though.

    

Tammy G.
on 12/4/13 3:41 am
RNY on 06/16/11 with
Before my hair came back, I was literally bald on top. I either did a heavy duty comb over or wore a hat. It finally started growing back 2 YEARS after surgery, but I had a distal RNY, so yours may not take that long.
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