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it is so sad that companies do things like this. I super absorbed from their patch and my surgeon put me back on chewables years ago. I hope that there is no damage to you from this and that you are doing well otherwise.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
Maybe. It sounds like he believes he can get it to go through. Keep your fingers crossed.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
LeonaCR, Knowing how to reduce the alcohol content of Medications is information that is important to know and use if you do not tolerate or need the disruption in your life. the alchol tinctures we make for various health issues last a long time prepared like we do... many can be made with glycerine but they do not keep as long...1 year as opposed to 10 years...since we use them on an irregular basis..allowing the alcohol in a dose to evaporate off.. is one way to reduce the side effects of it.
I have been successfully using the PatchMD multivitamin patches for over 7 years now, having started taking them several years after I had my Roux-en-Y (in 2007). I discovered yesterday that sometime in the last year or so -- I don't know exactly when, as I have not yet received a response from them -- they removed the 1500 mg of calcium citrate (which was 115% of the USRDA) and replaced it with 3mg (yes, THREE measly milligrams, which is less than .25% (yes, less than one-quarter of one percent) of the US RDA)! Why bother?!? (Answer: so they can SAY it has calcium.)
There was no warning to existing customers that they were going to make this major change. The vitamin content on the back of the package is now so small that I had to get a magnifying glass out to read it? I know it sounds melodramatic, but as someone who already has spinal stenosis and some general bone loss, and was one of their early customers, it feels like a betrayal from a company whose original customer base was largely bariatric surgery patients. I fear what my DEXA scan will show after taking no calcium supplements for probably a full year!
Also, be aware that their Vit D3/Calcium patch (included in their "bariatric" bundles) also has a very insignificant amount of calcium. You would still need to take several doses of calcium each day while using both this patch AND the multivitamin patch.
I have cancelled my recurring subscription with them (if I have to take 3-4 doses of calcium per day, I might as well also go back to taking a chewable multi), but I wanted to make sure other people are aware and don't get caught as I did.
If you were unaware of this change, as I was, you might want to contact them and complain. Even if you are a new customer, you might want to complain that they are presenting their "bariatric" bundles as complete supplementation without anything close to the calcium that gastric bypass or DS patients need.
Lora
p.s. I cannot remember how to add a photos, but I do have a picture of the back of the package.
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
My highest weight was 300 from lap band in 2010 and after 2 babies and weight gain and loss I?m 169. I have lots of skin on my abdomen, inner thighs, arms, and sagging breasts. I?m seeing Dr Boukovalas at UT he?s a reconstructive surgeon. I have all the paperwork from pcp for a panniculectomy. I go into his office on Friday and aside from being gorgeous is so sweet tells me we?re going to submit your fluer de lis panni with thighs and then after that your arms and breasts reconstruction. He took tons of pics and said I would be covered for the tummy for sure. Can surgeons convince insurance to cover reconstruction of multiple body parts. I have regular blue cross blue shield and blue care on the side!
Thank you for being so helpful White Dove!
Thanks Janet for sharing your personal experience. All of these posts have convinced me to forgo any glass of wine!
