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I agree with getting labs checked. 

I had my labs pulled every 3 months for the first year then every 6 months thereafter, and a couple of times in between when I was having other check ups. I have never been deficient in any vitamin/nutrient or protein numbers. My platelets are always low, but that is due to a clotting disorder that causes my platelets to clump to themselves instead of being free floating. This throws off my platelet counts, and I am now on an 81mg aspirin dose for life to help my platelets not stick together. The clotting disorder is a genetic disorder, and has absolutely nothing to do with my VSG, or any other surgery I've endured.

That is smart and if I hadnt been a self pay and worried about insurance flagging everything I submitted after I started showing up asking for multiple labs, I should have done that too.

After the fact, I find out I can get my protein drawn from the direct labs for 30 bucks, somehow in my brain it was a lot more than that! 

I know not everyone has been/ever will be deficient, and I am glad for them, but I worry for folks who are and just assume and never check, or get copies of their labs!

You got the smartz, girlie!

I've had my labs done several times since surgery and just two weeks ago - they were excellent.

Keep getting them done especially annually.  NO deficiency showed up in my 2 week, 3 month, 6 month or 1 year labs.  My 2 year I was low in several things.