www.obesitysurgery-info.com

Sue Widmark (her name should be WIDE-mark, since she's always soooo wide of the mark, LOL!) thinks all fat people should stay that way, and be ludicriously happy about it, too. Ignore her. Wanna visit a site with a lot of good, scientific research, to take Sue's taste out of your mouth/ Check out www.duodenalswitch.com for a taste of the 'other' side. (*grin*)

"Gastric surgery for weight loss causes nutritional deficiency in nearly 100% of individuals who have it done. The most common deficiencies are Vitamin B12, Iron, Calcium, Magnesium, Carotene (beta-carotene and other carotene vitamins) and potassium. In the beginning patients will faithfully get their vitamin B12 shots and take their vitamins. After a while they flatter themselves that they are healthy and just like anyone else. They discontinue getting checkups. This is risky. A recent follow-up study done on gastric bypass patients showed that even 10 years later there were severe nutritional deficiencies. You are NEVER normal. NEVER.
Read and understood" This is a snippet from that Kaiser form.  Someone had re-typed it, hence the typos?  As for the nutritional deficiencies - it says "nearly 100%" - which means almost all of us will have some type of deficiency, which has to be true - since we lose so much absorption with the removal + bypasses of the various surgeries.  Even a minor deficiency is a deficiency.  I would have loved to have received something on this idea from my doctors pre-operatively.  I am sure we signed something similar - but I didn't know as much as I should have.