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Please listen to Larra. A friend of mine was revised from RNY to DS by a doctor who did not know what he was doing and she never recovered- in and out of the hospital for years and then died. Be wary!!
Laura in Texas
53 years old; 5'7" tall; HW: 339 (BMI=53); GW: 140 CW: 170 (BMI=27)
RNY: 09-17-08 Dr. Garth Davis
brachioplasty: 12-18-09 Dr. Wainwright; lbl/bl: 06-28-11 Dr. LoMonaco
"May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears."
Oil based D is a waste of time and money. We malabsorb the oil so you'll be flushing it down the toilet and not helping your labs much
I wouldn't be worried. You may have slowed down on snacking and at a few less carbs.
Scott
3 calcium citrate
2 multi (Vitamin shoppe, I find I feel better with a higher quality multi, I've been taking these for years)
100K Vitamin A
800 Vitamin E
B complex
Night
2 multi
3 calcium citrate
150K IU D
2000 K
200 K2
150 mg zinc
Magnesium citrate when I have it. I'm not religious about this, sometimes I take magnesium oxide (they both have the same effect on me....it makes for a good morning "routine" if you get my drift).
I don't take iron, I did get an iron infusion but it seems like too much trouble to take it, and I was only anemic this one time. I do drink protein shakes or eat protein bars still.
Scott
Scottie
I take mine just twice a day too. Would you mind your regimen?
Thanks
Julie
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13 years ago, I had the DS. I was told to take flinstone chewable. I was given very little information about which vitamins I needed long term. At 6 months my labs tanked. I met Vitalady on another board and listened to what she had to say, eventually I got her to come over to the DS side. <br />
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Thank God I listened to her advice. 13 years later I have perfect labs. Doctors do not understand how I take 150k IUs of D or 100K of A and still have normal levels. I tweet my vitamins based on annual labs. I dropped B12 last year, I upped zinc, and in 2018 I had a series of iron infusions for mild anemia. <br />
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Scott <br />
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In case anyone was wondering, I only take vitamins 2 times per day. Once in the morning, once at night.
It's a friend of a friend. I'll check. But now I understand. Tough situation. I have a great bariatric surgeon in my area who takes care of all of this. That's why I didn't understand.
By now you've probably seen the doc and hopefully had some of your questions answered, but here are my own thoughts -
You've asked about something that may be much more complex than you realized. Revising from RNY gastric bypass to the DS is a huge and complex operation done by only a handful of experienced DS surgeons. It involves taking apart your old gastric bypass completely, putting everything back together in the original anatomy, and then doing the full DS. That's a lot of surgery, and the risks are greater than with a primary DS.
If you are seeing a surgeon who doesn't do the DS, he/she isn't going to offer you a DS. Instead, they will either offer you some minor revision to what you already have, probably going from proximal to distal bypass, which studies have not shown to provide much additional weight loss, or just try to scare you out of doing anything and tell you to make better use of what you already have.
There is much more to this topic, so I'm also sending you a pm. Look out for it!
Larra
