Viactive Calcium & Temper

The Fri. before my surgery, I had my blood work, chest x-ray and my chat with the Nut. Well, the nut wasn't there so they called in Madeline to do the consult.  She told me to take Viactive for my calcium and Vit. D needs and even showed me the carton that they come in. I was just browsing on the boards over the weekend and saw someones post that we could not take Viactive as it was calcium carbonate and not citrate.  It had never dawned on me to look at the package. I had just assumed she had told me right. Well, you know what they say when you assume something .  So for over 2 months I have been taking calcium that my body can't absorb.  Thanks Madeline!!!!!!

One more thing, I have read somewhere that estrogen is stored in fat and while I am burning fat that estrogen is being released in large amounts. To me, that amounts to one long PMS session. Am I right about that? I am just so moody and getting mad at the drop of a hat. That isn't like me and my DH is getting really tired of it. When will this drop off and return to normal.  Just when I think things are normal, something else weird happens. Will I ever be normal again??????????

Tina

I have heard the same thing abuot Viactive so stear clear. As for major PMS....just ask my husband. I thought there was something terribly wrong with me in the beginning and I knew he was thinking WTF!?! Luckily it only lasted a couple of months and then I was back to being as b*tchy as normal, no more than that though...lol. I will tell you that PMSing now is way worse than pre-op though. Now I know what everyone was griping about all those years. Now that I am a bit smaller, bloating really ticks me off...before I was fat and fatter, not bloated.

Tina,
I agree w/Shawna, the PMS is definitely worse post op.  I know this b/c I was one of the lucky ones (ya'll dont shoot me here) that NEVER had PMS and never understood folks talking about it.  I always said it was just something women used to be ugly.  "Oh, Im PMSing"  Well now, I know alllllll about it.  But again, I am fortunate that it only happens about once every 7 or 8 months, b/c I am on the depo shot and do not have a cycle every month, and when I do its every 7 or 8, and only last 3 days   OK, Im hiding now, but I do feel for you women who battle it, and I have certainly changed my opinion about if its real or not.  My husband even knows when my lil shorties are coming, he tries to find stuff to do away from me, lol.

Good luck w/all of this, and NO, we CANNOT use Viactive as our calcium source.  I keep them on hand most of the time, to use as a snack when I want a caramel, but not as my calcium source.  I used Citrical Petites w/D, take 2 of them lil boogers 4 times a day.

Hope this helps,
Rhonda D.

P.S. Wendy Fou and susandoes hair are awesome sources of info for your vitamin questions..

I was more irritable post-op for about 4 - 6 months, I'd say.  For me, it leveled off when my weight loss slowed down to a somewhat more manageable speed (not pounds lauching themselves off my body right and left). 

Dr. Baker has a packet with his vitamin instructions in it and I MISREAD mine and took the wrong calcium (carbonate) for the first few months.  That is one reason I am SOOO vigilant now about my calcium.  (I take 2 Citracal Plus 4 times a day to get up to 2000 mg per day.)

And YES you will be normal again!