Hair Loss

Just wondering...does everyone that has RNY lose alot of hair? Or is that something that If you don't take your vitamins every day like you should to make that happen?...I'm thinking of getting the RNY and want to find out everything about it. Also...does everyone get the dumping sydrome or is that something to do with your hormones?? I know ...I asks alot of questions but just trying to find out everything now so I can fill my Husband and Mother in on the information. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Best of luck to all the "Losers" out there...

I think it happens to the majority of RNY patients.  I take vitamins regularly and faithfully and lost my hair starting at 5 months out , but it started growing back by the time I was about 11 months out.

Good luck with your decisions.

Leslie

Do you lose alot or is it just a littl hair loss everyday? I mean I don't wanna walk around with bald spots lol....just trying to get down the information before I have it

I don't think it has anything to do with which surgery you chose.  I lost hair after I had my tubes tied in 2000, it was an open procudure.  I also lost hair after my DS, it started at about 3 months out and ended by the time I was 6-7 months out and now all my hair is back.  I have really thick hair so no one noticed but me and my hairdresser.  It never bothered me and made my hair so much easier to straighten.  Now that it's back I really don't straighten very often, not in the summer humidity.  Best of luck making your decision.

When I started on my dr. visits for my RNY, my primary care doctor told me that the thinning of hair in obese people is caused by the testosterone stores. If you have any male pattern balndess in your family, it is exacerbated by that stored up testosterone in your fat tissue. It also can store estrogen in men.  That is what my primary care doctor told me.  He also said that with the RNY, your hormones do changed a lot and it could happen, but it usually rights itself out in the end.

I had a lot of fat tissue - weighing 428 before my surgery - but the only effect the testosterone stores had on me was excess facial hair. My dermatologist told me this was a cause of my facial hair which started at age 25 (I'm 54 now)   I never had any hair thinning except when I've had major surgery  including a c-section and about 4 months after my RNY.   Fortunately I had a very thick head of hair to begin with. 

I have slowed down on my hair loss recently - it was coming out pretty fast for several months but just as everyone has posted here, it will come back.  I think it's well worth it for the end result of better health and the ability to breathe and walk again.  The primary causes of hair loss after weight loss surgery (what I've read) are general anesthesia and rapid weight loss.  The beginning months after an RNY we have a hard time eating enough protein and even with vitamins, which I take faithfully, we usually have shocked the body and hormones so they don't produce hair like they used to.  I just wish I could keep the facial and arm hair away, but it's growing back too!  lol  Thank God for my electrolysis lady!  

Thanks for the feedback!  I have been having thinning hair for a long time now. I hope that with this, it gets better. I have always had fine hair, but never like this!  You are totally right! The surgery and its benefits soooo outweigh being unhealthy and crap like that!  I would hope that my leg hair would be gone too!! Take care and thanks again!

I'm a lapband patient, and have had hair loss ever since about 1-2 months out of surgery.. Everyone said it would get better but I'm almost a YEAR out... and it's still bad... I'm not bald, But damn, "I" can tell a difference... and so can my bathroom floor.