Approaching 18 mo post surgery - where is my hair?

Hi you all!  I am almost 18 months out and have been at  goal for almost 8 months.  I lost a boat load of hair starting at 3 months (thankfully had a lot going into surgery) While I have some regrowth, it's not much  I'm still missing at least 1/3 of my hair!  Is this the best I can hope for or will it just come in time do think?

It's nice that it dries quickly now, it used to take forever, but a happy medium would be nice.

Doing well, but have had too much sugar the last few weeks so I'm going to eat healthier again.  It's a slipperyy slope!

High weight 270
Now 114
Lost 156

Glad to see you are all well.

Tess

I think that everyone will be different in the hair loss department, but to increase chances of regrowth, there are 3 things I do.

Protein FIRST at all meals

5,000mcg of Biotin daily

Nioxin shampoo and conditioner  (WHICH, btw, can be much more reasonably priced on Amazon than any retail location I've purchased it from!)

I lost a lot, but it has grown in much thicker than it was (I've had thyroid issues for years), and it grew in much curlier than it ever was!  (Figures, when the 'in' thing is straight, flat-ironed hair!)

I lost about 1/3 of my hair between 3-7 months out.  Now it is just about as thick as it was before and I'm almost a year out.  I was kind of hoping the hair would not have come back since I have so much to begin with.  Congrats on the amount of weight loss you have achieved.  Way to go.

I'm one of the ones that lost a LOT of hair post-op and got about 3/4ths of it back. Biotin and Nioxin didn't help me. I've been on rogaine since I was 16 and even using that didn't get all it back. I'm still glad I had the surgery though!

I tried to respond last week and I couldn't get a post to post!

I took Biotin for over a year and had no help.
I use the Nioxin and take all of my nutrients etc.  I think Menopause is partly to blame.

At least it doesn't take too long to dry it now!

Thank you for the replies, even if I'm late.

Tess