Guest guest Posted May 10, 2004 Report Share Posted May 10, 2004 At work we do gastric bypasses allot and the patients come to the floor I work on. We have 2 girls that I am good friends with on our unit, one is another secretary like me, and one a nurse and they both had the gastric bypass done. One has already lost 70 pounds, but she has also lost more than half of her thick beautiful hair as well. I was talking to the Dr who does the surgeries and he said that it is a combination of the lack of nutrients they are getting(malnutrition basically) and also a problem with a lack of protein metabilzation. In other words this could be something that is going on with some of the girls here that have normal thyroids. It could be a problem with protein not being absorbed. I am not sure how to check that out or what to do about it but I would eat as much protien as you can choke down. Problem is though if your not absorbing it then it may not matter anyhow. wish I had some more ideas but this one is something i thought worth posting. -C In , Colleen <cfortner@e...> wrote: > me too girl. my hair is still falling out like crazy and my thyroid checks > out okay too. pretty sick of it myself! > > From: " dimonds68 " <Dimonds6881@h...> > Reply- > Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 18:46:57 -0000 > > Subject: 3 and a half yrs post explant and STILL loosing > hair > > > Gotta keep venting on this subject. I dont' understand it. It is 3 > and a half yrs post explant, and I am still loosing hair like crazy. > I am only taking .5mg of xanax per day at nite. I started taking saw > pametto 2 months ago, with no help. it is pissing me off. anyone > else? thanks for the vent. Terry p.s all my tests are neg. I have no > weight gain. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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