Loss of immune system after gastric bypass surgery connected to vitamin deficiencies

I am a gastric bypass patient from 2003, lost my immune system in 2006.  Doctors were at a total loss.  In 2010 I was diagnosed with

Large B cell Nonhodgkins lymphoma. 

I am also an RN at a very large teacing hospital.  My lymphoma was stage 1, successfully went into remission after my second treatment.

My immune system was kept up by receiving an injection called Neulasta.  After my chemo was complete, I again lost my immune system.

There was not any hope of me remaining in remission.  I became very ill and was unable to work.  Throughout the entire seven months of

chemo tx. I kept telling my doctors I knew it had something to do with a vitamin or mineral deficiency. 

After researching vitamins and minerals connected with the immune system, I was tested and found a simple vitamin deficiency that none

of the bariatric doctors or anyother doctor realized had anything to do with the immune system.  I started on large doses and watched

labs closely every 2 months.  As the vitamin level increased so did my WBC.  After five years, and watching my WBC increase to 6.6

my oncologist is saying yes to this vitamin and has started treating his other lymphoma pts.   Three weeks ago at my office visit he said

I would not have survived the cancer without this vitamin. 

As a nurse, I take  care of pts. from all over the country who have had gastric bypass and not been put on a long term treatment of vitamin and minerals.  It is in epidemic proportion and will become fatal to many gastric bypass pts. 

Wow, I'm sorry about your experience. What part of the world are you in? I've never met an RNY patient who wasn't fully informed well before surgery which vitamin and mineral supplements they would need to take and which labs they would need to have drawn regularly for the rest of their lives (whether they're compliant is another story). Did this not used to be the case?

Also, what do you mean by it being an epidemic? Do you have some statistics regarding how common this is?

There s no epidemic.  There is no vitamin deficiency that causes cancer.  This is just a troll.   I doubt that she will post again.

I'm waiting for a sales pitch for this "magic vitamin."  

But she's from a "teacing" hospital.

Well goodness, *I* have! Most surgeons really don't give very good nutritional advice. And what little advice most of them do give is, indeed, a relatively new thing.

 

Wow, was this a long time ago? I had two "attempts" at the whole surgical process, in Ohio in 2011-12 and Oregon in 2014-15, and both involved multiple consultations and follow-ups with dietitians and nurse practitioners who gave vitamin instruction as a significant part of the visits.

I spent a 4 month stint in the hospital after my surgery! Well SEVERAL months after. I caught that deadly stomach virus. Anyway, that in compilation of my surgery and the utter lack of knowledge from ALL hospital staff I almost died until an angel in the form of a nutritionist who studied rickets in college took 1 look at me and said test her vitamin levels and sure enough I was dying! Due to my vitamins no longer absorbing I developed Multiple Sclerois! Doctors can argue with me all they want! I was 100% healthy prior to my surgery after my immune system is shot! Not saying the surgery did it because it wasn't, it was the stupidity of the hospital staff! I fight daily with my vitamin B levels, vitamin d and calcium. It's crazy nuts! Now 175lbs. Thinner and can't do all I want to cuz now I have MS which ruined my vision, balance, hair and the major one immune system. I catch EVERYTHING now!

Troll perhaps, but vitamin deficiencies can be a major deal when fighting cancer. If not a troll it must have been a ****ty oncology unit...

There are suggestions of using Vit C as a treatment option.