It was like exactly 3 months to the day from my surgery, my hair started falling out in handfuls! It's very depressing as I love my hair!! What I understand per other posts, there is nothing we can do to prevent it, just up your protein, take 5000 mcg of Biotin, use Nioxin shampoo and pray it comes back. The Biotin will only help with new hair growing in, not help with keeping it from falling out. I condition when I shampoo, but the ends are so dry and brittle. I see my hairdresser next week, and pray she can give me a good style or haircolor to camoflage the loss.

well i'm the slowest loser of the bunch of us..........yup that's me!..........why i don't know, i do everything i am told to do... but i am loosing so i'm happy....... i have lost 47 pounds from the day of surgury on dec 18... and 19 pounds pre op. for a total of 66............. wow! i really am so much slower that most here!.. or are there a lot of losers like me that just don't post about it?

I had surgery 12/07/07. I lost 25 lbs preop and 66 lbs since surgery. I lost the most my first month, then about 10 lbs a month since then.

My RNY was on 12/26/07 and I've lost only 57 pounds. Seems very slow to me, compared to a lot of folks on the main site and here too. I know I need to up my water intake and have tried to cut out carbs completely, as they are a bad trigger for me. I walk on the treadmill for 1/2 mile each day and hope to up it soon, after I get more fat off these hips so I don't hurt so much. Just whining, as I should be very happy with my success, just can't stop comparing myself to others who are losing faster.

I had my RNY on 12/10 and I am down 75lbs, very happy and feeling good!