Hair loss

I am two months and three days out of my surgery and have recently noticed hair falling out. I know they told us to expect this but it's making me so depressed. I made the mistake of looking at the back of my head with two mirrors. I look like a middle aged balding man, not a girl in her twenties. Please tell me this ends eventually. I'm already considering a wig.

Yes, it ends eventually.

If it depresses you when something happens when you are told that it will happen, maybe you shouldn't be looking at the back of your head.  

There's nothing you can do about the hair loss;  it happens.  It will grow back.

Oh, and stay off the scale--you'll be contemplating suicide otherwise when you hit a plateau.  And you will hit a plateau.  Several times.

If a wig makes you feel better, buy and use one.

Can anyone tell me when, on average, the hair loss takes place?  like, between months 3-9--that kind of thing.

My hair loss started at about 3-1/2 months.  By the ninth month, I had plenty of regrowth which was annoying because they would stick up straight from my head.  It's just one of the things you have to wait out.  Now it's just a distant memory.

I had hair loss my first surgery as well  but always remember protein protein  ,  and    your hair will be ok   and come back just as full and  you wont have that problem , try to not worry so much  and keep the focuse  on your new healthy self if you can  

I lost A LOT of hair starting about 4 months after my surgery.  I had planned for the hair loss and cut my hair really short, the shortest I've ever had my hair, in an effort to deal with what was to come.  I'm so glad I did.  When it began falling out it seemed gradual, but then it felt like I was just shedding left and right.  I was shocked by how much hair I was losing daily, but luckily you couldn't see it.  I have a lot of hair, and even though I could have sworn it looked like it was thinning, the hair loss was not visible to anyone else. 

One day after the 6 month mark it seemed to just stop.  The shower drain went back to normal, I stopped shedding on my clothes and my comb and fingers would come up clean when I ran them through my hair.  At the time my stylist reported seeing a bunch of little fuzz coming in, and that fuzz had turned into the regrowth halo everyone refers to. 

At 9 months out everything is pretty much back to normal on that front, the hair loss is a thing of the past and I don't really give it much thought anymore.

My hair was already thin and sparse; very fine.  Worse now that I'm shedding, so it is a lot for me.  So... a beautiful, young, black friend suggested a 'weave' like she and her friends get;  just with hair to look like mine.  WHAT!? After much discussion, I found out it is easier than I thought, and all types of the  100% human hair is only $15 a bag, and surly 2 would be too much hair! And if you take a little care of it, it will last for about 3 months before it needs to be re-weaved.  You may be able to use that same hair again a time or two. Really thinking about it.

I started losing hair at 3-4 months, it finally stopped at 15 months.  I have to get at least 80 grams of protein and take my vitamins, especially iron daily.

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