Dumb question about common channel

I found out that my common channel is 2 meters or 200 cm. Can anyone interpret for me in general terms what this means for my malabsorption and need for supplements? 

That's long and you're going to absorb more but you really have to go on labs to tweak your vites. Start off on the standard DS Vitalady program with added vitamin K2 (100 mcg) and then adjust when you get your 3 month labs.

I started taking the standard VitaLady regimen last week, including K2, then over the past couple of days the supplements started making me really sick to my stomach, so I took today off. I'm just under three weeks post-op. I'm scared to start taking them again. I do not like the way they make my tummy feel at all!

The iron did that to me in the beginning. I was advised on here to start slow with the iron. Don't take them all at once. Start slow take two, "or one" a day for week or so with copper, then add one more to your daily regimine when your feeling better and it doesn't make your body feel sick. Also I hope you are starting with the Iron in the morning, and not taking any other batches of vitamins for at least five to six hours... and of course no dairy or egg products for at least a couple three hours or so after your iron.... Now with that being said, that of course is my advise if it is the iron that is bothering you. It was for me, and it solved my problem. It only took a couple of weeks for me to be able to get in the full dosage.... Goodluck...

VitaLady says to separate the morning iron/copper an hour from anything else. I like eggs for breakfast. If I waited 4-5 hours, I wouldn't be eating breakfast until lunch time. How do you manage your morning vites and breakfast if you're waiting 4-5 hours to eat?

I agree with this. 

You want to take your iron away from other vits, but do take it with 1,000 mg of Vit C.  The C helps your body absorb the iron.

Also don't take it with caffiene, along with the dairy, eggs, etc.  I don't take them with anything - jus****er.

You will be able to take HEME iron polypeptide.  They are green, oblong pills.  The brand I took is Proferrin ES.  Vitalady sells these, but they come from a lab in CO.  Biolabs, if I remember right.  These pills never gave me any problems and you can take them with food/drinks.  Just cut them in half so your body can absorb them better.  They cost more though.

 

 

Hello again, I was just reading a bit on your profile, and as you can see I went to Mexico for my DS also, and I was just wondering who did yours? If you don't mind sharing.... Just curious, I guess..lol

Oh yeah, of course I don't mind sharing! I had Dr. Ponce De Leon do mine. I was really impressed with him, though I'm not quite sure how I feel about the 200 cm common channel. I just found out about that today. That's going to make my weight loss slower and having 200 lbs to lose in the optimum loss timeframe harder. 

That is true, but you will also have much less vitamin deficiencies over the life time.  It's not a bad trade off - some people got the 50 cc channel, but they are doing iron infusions several times a year or have a terrible time absorbing calcium and have bone leaching.

Yea, it can be a disappointment that you didn't get the 50cc and find it harder to lose the weight, but you will probably be happier later on.  You are young, the weight will come off if you work at it.  The deficiencies you would get with a shorter common channel never leave you - you have to stay right on top of those blood tests and extreme vits for the rest of your life.

 

That's a great name for a bariatric surgeon!  ;-)  You know, Fountain of Youth connection!

I asked my surgeon for a 50cm common channel, and she said she doesn't to short CC's anymore, because of deficiency and malnutrition issues.  I was measured out, according to the Hess Method, and I lucked out and got a 75cm CC!

The one thing that presents quite a challenge for me is calcium.  I have a slightly high PTH level now, but it has been way into the hundreds.  I use liquid cal/mag to get it down, and I have just recently ordered more liquid cal /mag for regular use, since I seem to absorb that better than the pills, even when I quarter them, to ensure the stomach acid can get to the business part of the pill without having to mess with the coating.  I take calcium and magnesium together. and I take 100,000 IU of Vitamin D a day, since I did have a deficiency there in my last labs.  That probably explains why I'm having such a hard time with calcium, since all of those work together.

I have been diagnosed osteopenic, and my hemo gave me a Reclast infusion before I read about DSer's and biophosphonates, which is what Reclast is. 

I'm trying like hell to nip the osteopenia in the bud, before it gets to osteoporosis, which is doubly hard for me, being         "a lady of a certain age".