Has anyone had to change the dosage of Seroquel or other meds due to malabsorption?

A nursing home is often the very best level of take care of older adults outside of a hospital. Nursing homes give what's known as tutelar care, as well as moving into and out of bed, and providing help with feeding, bathing, and dressing. However, nursing homes dissent from different senior housing facilities in this they conjointly give a high level of medical aid. A authorized  doctor supervises every patient’s care and a nurse or different medical skilled is sort of continuously on the premises. practiced medical aid is out there on website, sometimes twenty four hours daily. different medical professionals, like activity or physical therapists, are offered. this permits the delivery of medical procedures and therapies on website that will not be potential in different housing.  If you are faced with placing a family member or loved one into the care of a nursing home you should research carefully to determine the best place. If you do not get good referrals from people you know, a simple Google search can provide a lot of  Wellness Nursing home care. Carefully research each option and make sure you tour the facility before you make a final decision.

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So I know that I will get many responses and or message for me to contact a therapist.  Already DONE.  Waiting for a call back.

I am looking for some of you who may have had similar issues and want to get your feed back on what worked or didn't work for you.

I had surgery back in April of this year.  During surgery it was determined that I have thin blood and its harder for me to stop bleeding on my own that the average person.  This resulted in a second surgery to clean some things up and an extended hospital stay.

My high weight was 372.  Six months prior to surgery.  My surgery weight was 338 and today I weigh in at about 210#.  Yeah!! Right? 

I exerices 5-6 times a week at the gym for an hour plus and swim twice a week to move those crazy muscles you only access when swimming.   

I have never felt better physically in my life.  This includes prior to age 25 when I ran 5 miles each morning. 

I have two issues: 

1. I am very insecure about discussing my weight loss with others.  And as well all know we become the center of attention when seeing people we don't see on a regular basis.  In my profession I see people a few times a year.  So if i have 4 meetings a day, I see no less than 8 people who all want to talk about my "change".   Granted it is all positive feedback.  I am flattered I really am.  But I have always been a private person and do not liking putting my personal business on the street.   

2. I ignored the red flags and got into a serious relationship with someone I have known for years several months after surgery.  It got hot and heavy and now it is crumbling apart.  I am trying to salvage a friendship and mend a broken heart regarding our relationship/friendship.   In addition I am trying to learn from my mistake and not make the same mistake twice.  At the end of the day we probably destroyed our friendship beyond repair and need to move on and stop seeing each other.  Everyone I tell the story to says tear it off like a band aid.  It will sting but it will be over soon. 

So the purpose of my post is two fold. 

If any of you out there have advice I am all ears.  (if you just want to say see the shrink, save my time and yours.)

Please learn from my experience.  I do not recommend getting involved in relationships immediately before or after this surgery. Our bodies and minds go through significant change over a relative short time frame.   I was prepared for every physical change, challenge or complication I could imagine.  I was not prepared for the psychological part of it. Also be prepared for people treating you differently.   I see some people once or twice a week and still have to hear it every time I see them.  

Thanks in advance for any feedback.  It amazes me at the hoops we go through to prepare for this surgery at the bequest of the insurance companies.  Only to be left with minimal follow up care outside of post surgery, 3 month, 6 month appointments with our surgeons.   I had case management via my insurance company but it changed when my plan changed, so I called this AM to get re-enrolled.

I have had difficulty finding a Psychologist who knows about the RNY patient.   The surgeon at my Dr's office did not have an appointment for three weeks when I called, and referred me to another Dr who never returned my call.  IF there is anyone who can refer me to a good psychologist in Pittsburgh PA, I would appreciate it.  I have calls into a couple of Drs.  Waiting to hear back. Also if anyone knows of any support groups in Pittsburgh,  I would be interested in attending.  The only one I have attended since surgery was geared towards new patients and frankly was a waste of time.

Thanks for the feedback and your kindness in advance.   At the end of the day I would still have my surgery and deal with the bumps in the road, I have never been healthier and I owe some of that to this website because without OH I would have never had this surgery that probably saved my life.  

Have a good day and good luck to everyone on this long journey.

Rick. 

I am almost 3 years post op. Reached my goal weight loss and have been very stable, but will I ever stop seeing the fat girl in the mirror? My head tells me I'm not and photos too, but the mirror reflect back something else. Do other people have this issue, does it ever stop?

I know this is an old post, but I am replying anyway.  This happened to me, I went from going years without a single drink, I went to some clubs in my early 20s, and had parties, and didn't even drink half the time at them.  Alcohol was nothing to me then.  I went to a party about a year or so out, and had a few smirnoffs that were watered down a little (carbonation) and within a month I was buying tequila in bulk drinking tequila sunrises every night, to a year later I was drinking half gallons of vodka alone in a weekend.  Seemed like I needed more alcohol to get drunk but that I stayed drunker. Near the end, I was drinking beer mixed with water or juice, because I couldn't get liquor anymore (I am glad I live in a dry county).  It has been several years since then, I went a year sober on disulfirum (antabusse) and a few months after I drank.  I am back on the medicine, it is a godsend.  I am lucky that I did no damage to my liver or kidneys or heart, I have them all checked regular. I have not had a scope done to check out my pouch but everything is working okay.  I tried attending NA meetings (I don't drive, Im in a small town, we have no bus systems, and AA is 10 miles away).  I didn't feel like I fit in, because it is one thing to get away from drugs, its another when you live in a low rent apartment building and half the people are walking around with beers in their hands (Our doors are on the inside of the building).  I see alcohol everyday.  So for me the medicine is necessary.  I can not change the place I live or the people I see but I can change how I deal with it.  I am in weekly therapy meetings as well.  

I believe that the surgery does something to our brains.  I don't think it's an addiction transfer.  My brain viewed alcohol as something I had to have to live, like breathing.  I couldn't think of anything else but alcohol, everything about my day was getting more alcohol, and making sure I had enough to last.  I would count them, I had beer and little bottles hidden all over the house.  This is something I never dealt with before.  I quit smoking with the drop of a hat before surgery, no problem.  I don't think twice that I have not had soda in over 7 years. But alcohol, another story.  I think this must be what a heroin addict goes through.  

Google disulfirum and other alcoholic medicines, talk to your doctor, and get all your insides checked out.  You can do it, it's hard.  But you have to tell yourself YOU CAN NOT DRINK EVER AGAIN.  My therapist told me once, ONE IS TOO MANY AND A THOUSAND NEVER ENOUGH I believe it, I heard it in NA as well.