hair loss

my hair is thinning out alot. My ponytail use to be about the size of a quater and now i might have a dime. jeannie 294/ my scale says 216 so who knows/ 13? would be nice.

Hi there, My Local Nutrion store told me to take Biotin pills. I think it helps alittle I was losing more & now seems to be slowing down. I also try to take a break every other day, 1 day blow drying the next day curly. & I use Biotin Shampoo from Nexxus. Good Luck, Sharon

Hi Kelley UGH!! Every time I take a shower I see MORE AND MORE hair in the drain! I am getting more and more discouraged. My open surgery was on 1/5 and I am down 70lbs. Have you tried Biotin?? I am seriously thinking about getting some--I hate to take pills--but I need to do something about my hair. Take Care! Carolyn

I mentioned the hair loss to my MD on Friday and he ordered a zinc level which came back a little low. He recommended a zinc supplement and come back for another level in a couple of months. Tanya 221/144/125

Had my WLS 1-5-04 and my hair started falling out about a month ago, I started using VitaTress shampoo with Biotin and it seems to help. The girl who cuts my hair recommended it, I bought it at Famous Hair. I lost a good bit of hair last year when I had another surgery and I believe that alot of my hair loss is from the anaesthesia(sp). But I have alot of hair anyway. I have been getting protein in everyday. When I was on Physcians Weight Loss 14 years ago, I lost 165 lb in 9 months and alot of hair with it, it grew back. If my hair continues to fall out, I'll buy a wig if it gets really bad. I didn't realize how much hair I was losing until I noticed how much was falling onto the tank of my tiolet!! I thought it was my husbands hair until I relized the length of it was mine!! I was shocked, but realized it goes with the weight loss, and I will take weight loss anyday!!! Good luck and great weight losses.

Yup ... losing hair rapidly. As for the protein, I get it all in thanks to the protein shakes from vitalady.com I asked my surgeon about the hairloss and she suggested uping my Zinc. Lida

I have lost probably close to half of my hair but thank goodness I started with a lot! I use Nioxin shampoo now which is suppose to help. My surgeon told me it's normal about this far out. Also, I recently found out that my Vitamin B-12 level is super low so keep an eye on that too. Apparently that can have a big effect on the hair loss too?!?!?! I'm hoping that my weekly B-12 shots will help slow down the hair loss as well.