Hair loss...

Hello to all of you! I have heard that when you have wls you lose your hair. Can you all tell me what your experince has been?

                                                       Julie

I'm almost bald.  I had shoulder length hair but now I don't have any except for what's on my chin and eyebrows.  My long curly eyelashes are falling out often.  I don't know why I can't lose the hair on my legs like that.

Yea I know I hate leg hair. Do you take vitamins and does that help with the hair loss at all?

                                                                 Julie

Candy, have you had your calcium and/or vitamin d levels checked?  I'm a pre-op but I often lose my eyelashes because I'm a lifetime sufferer of vitamin d/calcium deficiency.

I lost over half of my hair and did everything I was told to do and nothing helps.  The good thing was I was the only one stressing out about it nobody else could even tell and it does grow back.

Stephanie

I have been taking the vitamins I'm supposed to, and the only thing that I notice different about myself is that my nails grow faster.  I have even had a couple episodes of having hairballs - it's like one single strand of hair caught in your throat that makes you gag and cough.  I'm just glad the hair is shorter nowadays.

i was experiencing really bad hair loss.  my doctor kept telling me to increase my protein and i struggled with doing that.  recently, i took the bull by the horns and i've increased my protein to nearly 100 grams of protein a day.. mostly through supplements.  my hairloss has almost stopped.  it hasn't completely stopped, but it's not nearly as bad as it was.

Julie, my doctor and the nutritionist had stressed to keep my protein levels up because that could cause hair loss. I was crazy attentive to my protein levels my first year or so and I never experienced any hair loss.

Thanks I have been seeing some info about hair loss in a couple of books so I wondered was it true..


                                                                                          Thanks

 i might be of some help on this, i am a cosmetologist, hair is what i do.  The great thing about school these days is you don't just learn about how to do a roller set, you become a chemist and damn near a doctor of hair while you are at it!  Its very hard to get through school because of this but anyway.  You do have to keep your protein up but there are also many other things to relate to hair loss not just protein, like keratin and biotin and gelatin.  I would say if its happening to you to step up on these things to cause they all play an important role in hair growth.  You have to figure to you normally have about 100 or greater strands a day fall out that are naturally supposed to due to the natural hair growth cycle.  It grows, then it stays, then it falls out, that is what it is supposed to do.  So I'm pretty sure that it is not surgery that makes it fall out because its not like there is some glue of nutrients holding it in, once it grows it grows and stays till it falls out. I think it could be the surgery that keeps it from growing back as rapidly as it would have due to lack of nutrients and this is what causes the thinning of the hair, it is not growing back after it is lost and your not developing any new hair anywhere else either where it should be.  After a short time you will see balding or if it is really bad complete baldness.   Do you see what I'm saying?  I mean I'm not a doctor or anything but hair is what i do!