hair loss

Hi, Hope everyone is having a wonderful New Year!! I would like to hear from anyone else who may be experiencing hair lose. I had my surgery on July 2, 2007. I have lost 115 lbs. I started out with very thick hair. Several months ago I started loosing hair that was more than the norm. It is much thinner, my hairdresser said that it was a good thing that I had thick hair, now it is what a normal head of hair would be like. I have cut it shorter, I wanted a new look anyway, but it helped to make it look fuller. I started taking a packaged set of vitamins for women that consists of Biotin and several other vitamins from GNC, this has helped tremendously. There was a week that I was out of them, just hadn't gotten back to the store, I could tell a big difference, I started loosing hair again, so I got right back on it and will continue to take it. Also, I am not able to eat beef, I throw it right back up, anyone else having this problem after 6 months? Thanks!!

This is one of the side effects of WLS. We all experience it, some worse than others. How much biotin are you taking. I increased mine to 5000 and it is better. I am not getting any hair back, but I think I have stopped losing it. I had thin hair before too so that did not help. You can always increase your biotin intake, which is what a lot of people do. Good luck ~ Terisa

eat more protein...

I have only started losing hair in the last couple of weeks, and have gotten at least 50g of protein every day since surgery (thanks to the g-tube the surgeon put in at the time of surgery and left in for almost 3 weeks), and usually get 70g.  I have been taking 1500mg of biotin since 2 months before surgery. Still, it is now coming out...  and I have very fine hair to begin with (there's an average amount, but the individual hairs are baby fine).  I think sometimes there is just nothing you can do to escape it.  It WILL eventually grow back, though, as long as you keep your protein levels up. Lora