MikeKY_noInsulin said:

Six weeks of shedding, no bald patches, and a GP who told me to come back in three months.

Hair loss update related to hair shedding: I experienced noticeable shedding starting around month 5. My dermatologist confirmed it's telogen effluvium — a stress response to rapid weight loss, NOT the medication directly.

What's helping:

• Biotin 5000mcg daily
• Adequate protein (130g+/day)
• Iron and ferritin levels checked and supplemented
• Collagen peptides 20g daily
• Minoxidil 5% topical (prescribed)

The shedding slowed after 2 months and my hair is now growing back. Temporary but definitely stressful.

InsuranceTom said:

Hair loss update related to hair shedding: I experienced noticeable shedding starting around month 5.

That holds where the measurement is reliable. Where it is noisy — and a lot of what gets tracked here is noisy — the same reasoning produces confident nonsense.

MikeKY_noInsulin said:

Six weeks of shedding, no bald patches, and a GP who told me to come back in three months.

Second this. Posting only so the count is not one.

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.

If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.