Hair loss

Has anyone really started to lose hair? I have been losing a lot, which was my worst fear(my hair was always my best quality.) But, I find it funny that I am actually enjoying it. I have always had very thick hair and in the last 6 years I decided to grow it long, and I mean long. I figured I wanted it long before I was too old, I dont' mean to offend anyone... just personally I don't want to have long hair when I am older. Anyway, I have already lost a lot of hair and really I like it. It is giving me a chance to know what it is like to have thinner hair. I thought I would lose length or at least show that I lost hair with jagged ends. This isn't the case, it still looks very long and even, just different. I can do things with it that I couldn't do before with so much hair! I was so prepared to cut it off, but I am amazed that right now I don't have to. Perhaps when it starts to grow back it will look a bit odd and I will have to cut it, but for now it is an added bonus to my surgery! It could be that I am just an optimist, but I think I am liking the diversity! What a pleasent suprise, the thing I feared(sp?) most, turned out to be a positive thing. Wonders will never cease, what can I say? It just caught me so off guard that I had to write about it. And I thought not having my thighs rub together so much would be a high point! (Really, it is, I just can't believe I am ok with this hair loss thing!) Sorry for the 'running off at the mouth' Have a great day, all! Amber

Right after surgery, I started taking "Extreme Biotin" (1500 mcg). So I havent had too much hair loss -- not yet anyway. I was like you -- and my hair was one of my good qualities. I didnt want to lose any of it. I have lost a little, and thats it. However, it sounds as if you have turned your hair loss into a "positive" thing ... so I guess you are doing ok, then, huh? Thats good! Have a great day! Susan 288/210/??150??

I had my surgery on the same day as you...and yes losing alot of hair...I feel as if my hair is not as healthy now...realizing I have 3-4 more months of this til it stops...what are the views of biotin...I heard that it really didnt work...any advice?

Yeppers. I started losing my hair about two weeks ago but it really hasn't been bothering me, just a little annoying because of the length and finding it all over the house. Some days are worse than others, but for the most part it doesn't seem as bad as I thought it was going to be. Kinda of like you, I have a lot of hair, but its thin and so it almost looks like I have thin hair anyway. So, I'm not really noticing any difference because of it, just that it sits a lot easier these days, doesn't look so helmetish on my head. I've already made up my mind though that once it starts growing back that I am cutting it shorter, with some layers so that the little hairs coming back in don't look so completely out of place. We'll see... Rach

I have started losing alot of hair, and my doctor reccommended "ADEKS" I think it is new. They have a website and that is the only place you can buy it at the moment so I am looking it up today. I also started taking biotin. Don't know if it will work but Doc said it couldn't hurt so why not.