OLD TOPIC, BUT NEED HELP!!!

Hi all,
I am doing pretty good and hope everyone else is also.
Really, I know this is a old topic. I am 5 months out now from surgery.  I have lost 1/2 my hair, Please when is it going to slow down? My husband tells me I am not getting enough protein. I don't count my protein, should I? If anyone can give me advice Please do.I just don't know what to do.
God Bless
Evie

I'm new to the sleeve...just done last Tuesday.  But I am suppose to have 60-80 grams of whey protein every single day along with 64 ounces of water.  I take a flinstones complete vitamin, a b-12 vitamin (differnt time of day from the flinstones), I take two calcium chews and a stomach acid reducer. 

I would ask your Doctor what he wants you to have and get right on it.  You should have been given some guidelines.  Prayers and support sent your way. 

As an aside, Flinstones aren't the best vite for us. Try to switch to something of the Centrum variety. They make a chewable as well. and CVS sells a generic version of the Centrum chewable.

Until then, the postop vite dose is 2 multi vites a day, so bump those Flinstones up to one in the AM and one in the PM!

As far as calcium, please make sure you are taking calcium CITRATE as it is the only kind we can use so double check the kind you have and make sure. We need around 1500-2000mg. If you prefer chews, Bariatric Advantage and Celebrate both sell chews that are citrate.

Congrats on your surgery and I wish you a speedy and uneventful recovery!

Thank you michellemj! 

I appreciate the Centrum advice and go Wednesday back to the doctor for my staples to be removed and will see if they will let me change.  That is just what they told me to take and the hospital gave me also.  And yes, it is the calcium citrate, sorry that I left that off, but yes, that is what I take.

So much to keep learning and trying to follow everything exactly as they have told me.

Thank you again, so new at this but learning so much!!   

No problem. I'm just here to help.

Often NUTs and docs just don't know what we need. So I lurk on other boards to learn as much as possible. and I read and read and read and then read some more. I'm a scientist by profession so it's my nature to research extensively. :)

I don't want us postops to end up with crumbly bones or major anemia simply because someone gave us bad advice!

Are you taking your vitamins?  Consider adding some biotin to your vitamin supplements.  You definitely need to try to count your protein too.

Thank you for your help. Gives me something to think about.
God Bless Evie

It's called Telogen Effluvium. It is caused by metabolic or hormonal stress. Unfortunately WLS creates both, so it's a double whammy. Nothing you do really will prevent the loss... some people say Biotin helps it grow in nicer when it comes back. It resolves itself in aproximately six months. 
The old hairs are actually pushed out by the new ones growing deep in the folicle... so take heart, it will grow back!

Please tell me all of this after I have surgery, and am asking the same questions! I am not looking forward to that part of the process... but we will all get through it!

Amanda :)

Yes, you should be tracking your protein!  Using a tracker like dailyplate or myfitnesspal can be very helpful! Good luck!