Roll call/support for all of us whose hair is falling out!

I have lots of hair, but LOVE Nioxin!   Love the way it smells, and the conditioner does not feel heavy at all!   
I am only 8 weeks out and have not started loosing, but maybe I'll be ahead of the game since I already use Nioxin!

I started at 4.5 months out. Thought I had dodged the bullet. **sigh**

It's probably not noticeable to anyone but me, but I started using XFusion and I love it!  It really disguises the parts!

I've started noticing strands coming out at a time but nothing in big clumps.  The way I look at it is, I would rather be, skinny, sexy, healthy and stunting a bald head than fat, unhealthy but have great hair.  I can work a bald head if I need to if I ever get to that point!

Oooh, put me in the "I Lost a Bunch of Hair due to Surgery" Club!

I knew this would happen so I let my hair grow pretty long before surgery and started taking Biotin before surgery as well. I still take it today. My loss started about 3.5 months post-op and is continuing (I'm 7 months now) but I do think it has slowed a tiny bit.

I kept thinking I would chop my hair when the loss started but I haven't been able to bring myself to do it. I've grown rather fond of having longer hair again. lol. Maybe this summer I can go shorter. Maybe.

But yes, we all knew this was coming, and I am guessing it is harder on us because we see in the brush, shower drain, sink, floor, and vacuum cleaner.  But most other people don't even notice our loss. So keep the faith, all is not lost, just a few thousands strands or so.

I'm screwed - I'm a pre-op and I've lost 50% of my hair in the last couple months, and it's still falling out in mass quantities - just saw the first bald spot this morning. Oh well, I'm on the "i'll take a bald head for health" train


It really sucks though.

Put me on the list also.  I am a little over 3 months out and my hair loss started about 2 weeks ago.  Although I have a lot of hair my hair is very fine so I am hoping that is slows pretty soon.  To complicate matters I am also iron and ferratin deficient and both of these can contribute to hair loss also.  I just started taking iron supplements but I have heard that it can take months to raise your iron levels.  Anyone else taken or know anyone who has taken L-lysine in conjunction with iron supplements to help with iron absorption?

My hair loss started with the pre-op liquid ( or as I prefer to call it-- starvation) diet.  Already blessed with fine, straight hair, I'm just hoping to hold on to enough for a comb over! 
 

I'm starting to lose mine but I'm surprisingly optimistic about it (not my usual response to most situations).  In the grand scheme of things, I could have a lot bigger problems, and I'm nearly 80 pounds lighter than I was before, so I am happy.  I read an article that talks about hair loss and how it really depends on your cycle of hair growth and where you were in the cycle at the time of surgery that determines how much hair you will lose.  Nothing can be done to prevent it, and if you are nutritionally sound, it will resolve.  In several months, it will just be a bad memory :)  

My hair loss started at exactly the 3 month mark.  I put the half-way point on my calendar and the end-point.  (hopefully the endpoint is at 6 months--ie, 3 months of hair loss.)  It has been pretty savage for me too, as I had baldness on top to begin with.  Am wearing cute berets to cover.  And other than that, am just saying, "Oh to hell with it--what is, is!---just suck it up and accept it!" and going on with my life and concentrating on working the program and exercising and losing weight.

I've lost about 50% of my hair. It started about 3 months and Im now at 9 months. I see that is has drastically slowed down. I was having clumps fall out in the shower. I literally filled a sandwich baggie with hair after every shower. I saved it to show as proof. Im blessed with heavy thick hair, so no one can really notice, but I can. My hair is now thin, limp and fly away like a sick person's hair. I know I won't go bald and it will come back in, so I am not letting it get me down, but as someone who was told constantly that I had fabulous hair, it is a huge heartache. but then again, wouldn't trade it back for being heavy.. no way, no how.