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Hair Loss

Kazzer75

Kazzer75

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I had my sleeve done on Feb 8th 2011. I know that people have talked about hair loss, but I had hoped to avoid this by taking vitamins, etc.

Any how, I have been noticing over the last couple of days that I seem to be losing more hair than normal.

Has anyone else experienced this? How long does it last? How much could I lose? Any thing I can do to lessen it??

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Hair Loss!


 The science bit...


It's pretty common to lose hair when dieting. Here's why...

Each hair on your head grows for 4-5 years, then falls out. So your hair is always renewing itself. The long growth stage is called anagen and the short stopping phase that follows is called catagen. Then the hair falls out, which is telogen. The hair follicle then goes back into anagen and makes a long hair for the next 4-5 yaers.

What happens during weight loss is Telogen effluvium. It also happens after any stress to the body. Some of your hair follicles go into catagen to conserve body resources. So the hairs stop growing and "rest". Once your body feels safe again, those hairs go back into anagen - but because there was the pause in the middle, the brand new growing hair pushes the old hair out of the follicle. So in reality you have just as much hair as you did before - and it's probably far healthier hair. But the new hairs are short
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Normally around 10% of your head of hair is in the catagen or telogen phase, in essence resetting itself to prepare for new hair to grow in. Because you have so much hair on your head, you don't even notice. During weight loss that percentage gets higher, but this is only temporary. Your body starts creating new hair in its normal cycle once it settles into a healthy weight and those hairs start growing again. Remember that hair doesn't reach a long state overnight! So all those new, healthy hairs need time to grow out to whatever length of hair you have chosen.

Usually it takes 6 months for your head of hair to have grown back out to typical fullness. Hair grows around 1/2" per month, so at the 6 month mark, the hair is around 3" long which is enough to seem thick on most heads. Again, it's not that the hair is MISSING during this intermediate time. It's just that it is brand new and growing from scratch.

Copied from here Weight Loss, HairLoss and Low Carb - Low Carb if you want to read the whole article!

Hope that helps:)
 
I'm about 5 months out and have been losing my hair for about a month to 6 weeks now. I guess I expected it. I just hope it won't last too long. I have short hair, but usually quite thick hair. I might get away with it not being so noticeable.

Sorry can't really advise you.. just hope that it's not going to be too bad.

xx
 
Great thread, very informative Mini, Karen x
 
Thanks everyone. Mini, that was a great bit of info.

I have longish hair so hoping it won't be noticeable to anyone else.

This was the one thing about the op that scared me. Silly, eh?
 
My surgeon says there is not a lot you can do about hair loss. It either happens or it doesn't and it will grow back - eventually. Mine went really fine and I have had to keep it cut short for a year. It started to grow back like baby hair, but wavy - unlike my previous lifetime of stick-straight hair. This has been the hardest bit to handle.

My hair feels quite normal in thickness again now.

My dietician recommended extra Vitamin C with zinc and Silica tablets.
 
I already take vitamin c, d, b complex, zinc, iron, basic multivitamins, glucosamine sulphate and omega fish oils.

Don't know anything about silica though??
 
:)Hi Kazzer,
I was losing hair for months 4,5 &6 post op
Now at 7 months it is slowing down & I am "sprouting" some new hair-
it's growing on the hairline at the front -
which is great 'cos I never had much of a fringe!:)
 
I am just coming up to 3 months post op and only noticed an increase in hair loss over the last few days.

Someone said once that its due to the GA? Is it linked to that though? The post from Mini seems to suggest its the weight loss.

I suppose both don't help much.
 
ravelling said:
Mine went really fine and I have had to keep it cut short for a year. It started to grow back like baby hair, but wavy - unlike my previous lifetime of stick-straight hair. This has been the hardest bit to handle.

My hair feels quite normal in thickness again now.
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This has also happened to me after losing weight and my hair with Lipotrim... it went from dead straight to curly and I seem to have layers upon layers of hair .

I have 'Monica Hair' now which takes forever to straighten:p

YouTube - FRIENDS - Monica and Mike play ping pong in Barbados
 
What are the vitamins that are most important to hair?? Is it B vitamins?
 
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Having had a thyroid problem for years my hair was already very fine, I had my sleeve in January and in preparation bought a spray on protein conditioner which I used on a night before bed, now that my eating pattern is pretty well established and I am getting a good level of nutrition I only use it once/ twice a week plus I have had my hair cut shorter so it doesn't look so fine.
 
At £9.50 for a haircut I'm looking forwards to saving myself some money!!! £9.50!! I remember when I could get a short back and sides for 2/6d!!
 
My hair loss seems to be slowing which is a huge relief. I have been taking extra vitamin B complex, but I guess there is no way to determine if this is what's helped or if my hair loss has just run its course.

Either way, I am just happy that its not falling out as much.
 
Gosh Chris, you have a good memory :D my husband moans about the same thing whereas us women like it to cost a lot or we don't feel as if the hairdresser is any good, even if we come out looking very similar to how we went in :D:D
 
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