Labs

Louise A.
on 3/25/09 12:39 am - Anniston, AL
Okay Debbie R you have inspired me to post something ever day wheather it is WLS related or just something. For taday I want to encourage all of you to have your yearly labs done and done by your gastric bypass surgeon. Now for the reason of the surgeon he is truly the one trained to look at our labs and to know wheather their is a problem.  Your PCP is trained to just look at the normal, what may be normal for some one who has never WLS may not be normal for us. 
Also if you have not had a Vitamin D level done please have it checked. My surgeon has started doing the D level. Mine is very low and I started on Vit D. It was low enough that  my GYN wrote me a script to take a mega dose for 5 weeks.
Now for the last of my sermon please take that Calcium. I am doing better than in the past. Last year I was told that I already had bone loss in my hips. Please get that calcium in as we don't want to have a hip fx.  But please do those labs and if you do them thru your PCP have him send them to your surgeon office. 
Carmen G.
on 3/25/09 1:17 am - Lincoln, AL
Is Dr. Freeman doing them in his office now? 
Louise A.
on 3/25/09 1:29 am - Anniston, AL
No I went to LabCorp. I think that the next time I will go thru RMC. I had always used Quest in the past.
Lisa S.
on 3/25/09 2:48 am - AL
Thanks, Louise for the WLS-related post.  I needed a reminder, both for lab work and vitamins.  (Been very lax with that lately.)   I'm actually almost a month late on my yearly labs, but I"m calling & requesting a lab sheet right now!
Louise A.
on 3/25/09 3:26 am - Anniston, AL
Lisa the vitamin D has been added since I did labs the last time. I have a friend who has not WLS and her vit D level was also very low.   Dr. Tesson said it is due to us not sitting in the sun without sunscreen.  Also heard on TV if we would sit out in the sun for 10 minutes ever day we could build it back up. Now if it will stop raining and get warm I will do just that.
Lisa S.
on 3/25/09 3:42 am - AL
I noticed the Vitamin D on the lab sheet (just got it faxed).    That's very interesting about the sun - unfortunately, I have to stay out of the sun since my melanoma diagnosis.  I was an avid sun-worshipper, but no more....rub on/spray on tan is all I can manage.  If mine turns out to be low, I'll have to find out ways to supplement it.
Thanks again for the prodding....
ShirleyG
on 3/25/09 8:01 pm - HALFWAY BETWEEN ATLANTA AND BHAM , AL
Louise ,
Make sure that they run a Ferritin level (stored iron) when they do the CBC iron stuff.  Lots of times they dont ,,Just found out that mine is 5 and he wants it to be 200....
Shirley
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