Vitamin A deficiency

Having DS on Tuesday, Just curious, do you know how long they left your common channel?  How about what size bougie did they use for your sleeve?  My Dr. uses the Hess method also. 

40 French bougie, 75cm common channel.

According to my surgeon, shorter common channels get larger sleeves in her surgery, to help avoid nutritional issues.

I have the shortest of the average comon channel length, so I got a bit of a larger sleeve.

Most of the folks I've seen around the board who posted their stats averaged about a 36 bougie  for the sleeve, with a 100cm common channel.

Is there a reason he uses 40 Fr instead of 32?

Good Luck!  The Hess Method is the best method to use for your body to be able to utilize the DS in the best possible way.

I have a 30 bougie for a sleeve and a 75-80CC.  I really wish I had a 100cc common channel minimum!

can I ask your Heigth, SW, CW, and how long it took you to get there???  Thank  you so much

Can I ask why you wish you had a longer CC?

Irishnurse-

So...according to Dr. Stewart...if we take our fat solubles with, say, some buttered bread, or a homemade soup with plenty of fatty beef, chicken, etc., we will absorb our fat solubles better?

It seems to me that the dry vites would be surrounded by the fat we eat and simply pass through....just like an oil based capsule.

Anybody have any insight into this and how it would work for us, and not against us?

My RD's solution for her DSrs is to take the reluctant vitamin or mineral away from everything else and on an empty stomach...usually a midnight dose kind of thing. It's worked well for me, the latest being copper and zinc.

--gina

Major Mom-

Sounds like a plan!  I never thought that food would interfere with our vitamin absorption, except for fats, of course.  I suppose it would get a little overwhelming for our new GI tracts.

No, LOL, I am sure that is not what he meant. I was told to make sure I get plenty of fat in my diet over 120 grams a day in order to be able to absorb my vitamins better. Not all of them. If you read that article I posted and google on the internet how they are absorbed you would see is is how they are absorbed. That does not mean you eat the fat while you are taking the vitamin. It just means you need to have sufficient amount of fat intake in your daily diet in order to absorb the vits.