My Dark Circles Blog Forum

[littlecat123]

I know that when I lost a lot of weight several years ago, for about 6 months I had horrible dark circles underneath my eyes.  It took about 6 months for them to go away.

Ironic -- I finally looked great because of the weightloss -- but not great because of the circles!

[FourBear]

Perhaps you had some temporary vitaman deficiency along with your weight loss?  That's the only thing I can think of off the top of my head that might cause that.

[Fizz]

I'm thinking FourBear might be right, at least that's the only thing that makes sense to me. Seems I have had dark circles for years, so I don't know if they were worse after I lost weight. Wish I could discover the cause of mine.

[bwhite]

Weight loss and dark circles definitely sounds like a vitamin deficiency.  Fizz, you might be lacking in some vitamin(s) and/or mineral(s) that is causing yours even though you feel fine.  You can try taking a low-dose multi-vitamin and your body will just pass the excess of most vitamins through if you don't need them.  There are a few that you don't want to have too much of such as Vitamin D and Iron (you CAN overdose on these) as well as a couple others but normally we are low in those as well so the risk is very low.
Try the vitamins for a month or so and see if there is any difference.  Worth a try anyway.