9 years Post-Op Roux-en-Y with SO many questions

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1.) I think I have Reactive Hypoglycemia, is this serious or is it okay for me to just control it by diet?

It could be a HUGE problem! Get that checked ASAP. If RH hits you hard enough, you could pass out which is not something you want to do when you're driving.

Signs of Reactive Hypogycemia

You do have a lot of things going on in your life. I think I can help you with one of them - your need to get your medical records. You are entitled to the information in those records. That means that the healthcare provider must give them to you. You can send a written request to the doctor and hospital for these. If anyone gives you a hard time, write to the department of health in your state and to the office of  professional licensing in you state. Failure to provide copies of records to a patient when they request then can result in sanctions and or fines against the provider. Some states will even suspend a medical license for this . If money is an issue & the provider won't. Give you the records, without payment, mention this in your letter to the state.

good luck.

My issue with the records can be boiled down to two or three things:

1.) I had my surgery in a state other than where I lived and at a medical school.

2.) My surgeon was a professor at the medical school there and due to it being a medical school, there are ninety-kajillion (slight exaggeration  ) Records departments, none of which are associated with each other. (found this out yesterday) So, this means I have to request records from each individual department (which I am now doing.)

3.) My surgeon left the medical school under a storm of bad stuff and the school closed his offices and now send their bariatric patients out to an affiliate surgeon.  My surgeon's records, bc it's been ten years almost, are not digitized, they are in storage (if they still exist)

4.) another potential problem is that even though after my divorce in 08 I did move to the town where the hospital is, I had reverted to my maiden name, and now that I have finished my degree, I live in a different state, so I can't just walk in to the records department and make these requests.  I'm hoping that isn't too big of an issue though.

So, all that said, yesterday I ordered my records from the Medical Office Pavilion of the medical school, where his offices used to be. Last week I ordered my records from the actual Hospital (University Medical Center) where I had my surgery and I called yesterday to make sure they had received the request and they had.  Next step is making sure that those two sets of records cover everything. If they don't, I have to find out what other areas I may have to request records from and there are several.  

I am feeling slightly better today.  I had made two medical records requests prior to this and prior to getting the information I got yesterday and neither of them had garnered the surgical records.  I was starting to panic a little.  I had even called my surgeon's new offices (where he doesn't even practice bariatrics anymore) and asked about them.

As to the Hypoglycemia, I never had a name for it before.  It never gets so bad that I have passed out, but I definitely start shaking and my vision gets blurry around the edges.  I already have slightly low blood pressure, and I have never passed out, but I NEVER thought those symptoms could be dangerous.  I always assumed it just meant I had forgotten to eat for too long or that I had eaten the wrong things.  I have always gotten dumping, so I don't USUALLY eat sugars/a lot of carbs.  I am trying to get into the surgeon as fast as I can, but this whole "deciding if I will get to be a patient" thing is infuriating and I don't have the $350 "transfer" fee yet.  But thank you for answering that question for me!