aawwwww Donna bless you heart ! I'm so sorry about the tough time you're having! I'm sure once they get your vitamins up, you'll feel much better. At least they can give you a b12 shot. They can also give you iron intravenously (I've had it). So if something is keeping you from absorbing, at least IV will work. What kind of extra b-12 do you normally take? I take one sublingually so absorption isn't an issue (see the Bariatric Advantage website). The pain incident you described sure sounds like more than an ulcer to me. WOW I think you deserve to whine a little ! Didn't you say that your plastic surgeon said he would fix that for you? Hold him to it girl! Get better soon !!! Ronda

Man I have no idea how this vitamin thing works. I admit I might miss a dose here and there but in no way should things be as bad as they are. I got home and had 2 messages on my machine, 1 from my primary care physician and 1 from my WLS surgeon. I did get a copy of the lab report. I don't see the do****il 2/21. They have me taking more calcium and I have to take more iron. I have to get a shot of b12. With all the stomach issues I'm curious if it's just that I"m not absorbing at all. I still am losing weight, so maybe it is the malabsorbtion. I just wish I knew what normals were. I can't tell much from the labs other than the fact that they have flag flag flag on everything. Thanks for the warm thoughts though I can certainly use them. I have this sore knot under my arm pits from the breast reduction that hurts when I put my arm down. I'm wondering if the malnutrition is impeding my healing with my surgeries.

Just curious how everyone else is doing as of late? Here I sit after getting reemed out by the Docs office about my lab work. I have been taking my vitamins and yet I am severly Anemic and am leeching calcium from my bones. My albumin levels are low, my b-12 levels are low my iron is crap and a few other bad sounding stuff I can't remember. I feel just about as bad as my levels are. I knew it was bad when my primary care physician called and then not an hour later my WLS called with the same message. I've been having some major pouch issues. I was up on Friday in severe pain doubled over starting around 10 oclock. I was so full of gas I thought I was going to explode. I took a suppository and gas pills but nothing worked. It was worse than when I was in labor. I had the dry heaves (with burping in there at the same time). I ended up getting the chills and spiked a fever for the better part of 3 hours. Felt like I had a blockage somewhere but at around 6:00 in the morning it finally passed. This was just one of many episodes that I have been experiencing as of late. The doc is treating me for the beginnings of an ulcer. And to top that off my plastic surgery has left me with hard knots at the ends of the incisions under my arms for my Breast reduction. Sorry but I'm whinning today. Just hoping that everyone else is doing ok. Donna Paige Just whinning the day away

Congratulations Toni! Hope the pain is better now. I actually started feeling human again at 2 weeks. I'm just curious as to why they used staples though. I had 1000's of tiny dissolvable stitches in mine. Nothin had to be removed. I didn't even have steri-strips. Doc was so pleased he got rid of my old staple scars.

Lara - thanks for sharing - I have been waiting for the update - and low and behold! I have not been signing on every day during my recovery, so was glad to get to see pictures. congrats on your new beginning! Toni