Hair Loss After Surgery

I am about 3 months after surgery. Has anyone or maybe someone they know had some hair loss after surgery? I wonder what I'm Exspect.

What you describe is called "telogen effluvium". telogen effluvium is when a stress (such as diet / weight change) causes noticeable shedding of hair after the stressful event. Hair loss is always late, usually 3 to 4 months after the event "stressful."

The event may be a physical stress such as illness (especially with fever), sudden weight changes (most common), or major surgery, like gastric bypass surgery. Sudden severe emotional stress may also trigger telogen effluvium, including the death of a loved one, divorce or separation.

It's something all called "The transition to the resting phase. In telogen effluvium, the stressful event causes a high proportion of hair follicles to prematurely terminate their growth phase and begin the transition to the resting phase at the same time. 3 to 4 months after the stressful event, a high proportion of follicles shed their hair all at about the same time as they prepare for a new growth cycle.

The condition is almost always temporary, and soon new hairs grow back in. Within months, more than the normal cycle of random hair follicle growth and takes off. The treatment of telogen effluvium include waiting for new hair to grow in, and the style to give a look more extended in time. Make sure your diet is really TOTALLY sugar free. Sugar aggravates the situation considerably. It also contributes to the following:

* Up your protein to 15% every day from the levels that you have eaten.
* Make sure you take at least 1500 calories per day.
* Drink plenty of water. 64 oz is a minimum per day.
* Take your supplements! At a minimum, you should take:
o A good multivitamin without iron
o Coenzyme Q10 - 75-150 mg per day.
Acetyl L-Carnitine - 1000 mg per day
o A good essential fatty acid supplement if you do not
some form of eating salmon, tuna, olive oil daily.

Hope this is of little help. I know it's scary, but it is not as unusual as it sounds.

I did not have GBS, but I had anemia, and when I did, I'm falling hair. I panicked, but apparently this is only temporary, and it happens to many people - including those who have the surgery!

This is called telogen effluvium and that is the body's response to stress. Women who have children often suffer, but anemia, major surgery, major stress, and a few other things can cause it. It is temporary, and usually not noticeable to a person other than the person who experiences it.

So basically - do not worry. If you lose your hair, it should come back within a few months, and you probably will not lose enough to make it clear anyway. Besides, you will lose weight, so that people will probably notice that the first! :)