I had a BPD 23 yrs ago!
Let's go with WHERE you had your surgery. Any bells ringing?
Did they ever refer to it as a Scopinaro or "a Scope"?
His configuration was slightly different than the standard BPDs of that time. Both had half stomachs (not a pouch), cut horizontally, of between 7 and 10 oz. S regular BPD had a common channel of around 100 cm (40 inches where both food and digestive juices mingle), but Dr. S experimented with common channels half that length.
But in the end, the nutritional issues are the same as my distal RNY and today's fancier DS models. We have to slam the nutrition in with a sledge hammer. A standard RNY or the restrictive procedures can use a ball peen hammer. Does that analogy work for you?
It's not that ALL oral irons don't work, but the ones that do aren't high on the hema radar. Except my poor hema who gets iron lessons every few visits. LOL My blood issue is not with iron. You might be able to start testing the better (and cheaper) irons on your body while you are still able to get infusions. One of my friends had iron shots (in the butt, weekly). She had a ferritin of 9 when she started. Took a couple years, but her shots got further and further apart, and they finally stopped when her ferritin reached 437. (range for ferritin wanders hugely, but lets go with 20-350).
probably, the vit D you are taking is RX? little green footballs? In which case, you really aren't getting any.
This area has had docs doing surgery since the 60's so some of my people are BPD's from the 80's!
Did they ever refer to it as a Scopinaro or "a Scope"?
His configuration was slightly different than the standard BPDs of that time. Both had half stomachs (not a pouch), cut horizontally, of between 7 and 10 oz. S regular BPD had a common channel of around 100 cm (40 inches where both food and digestive juices mingle), but Dr. S experimented with common channels half that length.
But in the end, the nutritional issues are the same as my distal RNY and today's fancier DS models. We have to slam the nutrition in with a sledge hammer. A standard RNY or the restrictive procedures can use a ball peen hammer. Does that analogy work for you?
It's not that ALL oral irons don't work, but the ones that do aren't high on the hema radar. Except my poor hema who gets iron lessons every few visits. LOL My blood issue is not with iron. You might be able to start testing the better (and cheaper) irons on your body while you are still able to get infusions. One of my friends had iron shots (in the butt, weekly). She had a ferritin of 9 when she started. Took a couple years, but her shots got further and further apart, and they finally stopped when her ferritin reached 437. (range for ferritin wanders hugely, but lets go with 20-350).
probably, the vit D you are taking is RX? little green footballs? In which case, you really aren't getting any.
This area has had docs doing surgery since the 60's so some of my people are BPD's from the 80's!
Michelle
RNY, distal, 10/5/94
P.S. My year + long absence has NOTHING to do with my WLS, or my type of WLS. See my profile.
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