JUST GOT THE RESULTS OF BLOOD TEST...

MMPC just called me and now i am to take folic acid and also vitamin d 1000 iu in addition to my vitamin a 5000 and caltrate calcium citrate with vitamin d plus my iron plus my vitamin b plus my flintstone chewables!!! good gravy almighty i am now going to be taking over a dozen pills a day now!! i hate taking pills and have also started to gag on them when trying to swallow them!!!!! gezz i am now taking more pills than before i had wls!!!! guess i am a druggie now huh?? and i know its because i am not eating right!!! oh!! also they want me to haqve another blood test in a few weeks...well i don't have insurance anymore....not til december or so...i sure can't afford to have it done now or in a few weeks!!! so now what do i do????? its all about money and i sure don't have it thats for sure!!!! i still have to get the other part replaced on my car before inspection plus new plates and my drivers license to boot!! sighs.....i need a good fairy or something....LOL

thanks for listening to yet another gripe from me!!!

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Hey Judy, you hit the nail on the head when you said you
weren't eating right.....that's why you have to take the supplements, otherwise you would be in trouble. I have
to re-start the vitamin D too! I took it for a while and my levels came up and at my one year checkup, it was down
again. Yogurt is good for vitamin D and good ole' sunshine....if you can go outside in the sun for ten minutes
a day, it will help a lot. I have to get rechecked in six
weeks, but I'm lucky that Medicare will pay for it.

I hate those calcium citrate pills - they are so darn huge.
Bariatric Advantage is going to be coming out with the
chewables soon....yeah!

We love your gripes -- honest!

Pat R.

hi pat....yup i am not eating right and after this news i went to the store and got me some GOOD foods!!!!! another reason we want out of here!!! diane tells me i can use the stove/oven yeah right!!! can't when jerry is home have to be quiet or else!!!! we have a very and i mean very small refrigerator down here...can't put much in it at all and the one outside in patio area if we put food in there he (jerry) tosses it out if left in there for more than 2 days...or he eats it!!!! so no room for yogurt right now but i sure will get some when we move out!!! sun here is ok but the mosquitos eat me alive!!! i can't win!!!! i should have insurance by december i think atleast i hope so!!!

good luck on your blood test coming up soon!!! keep me posted!!

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ps thanks for liking my gripes lol

Is this because you aren't taking the prenatals anymore? Because I know they have folic acid in them. Could you find some OTC prenats? Yeah, I know I have a lot of vitamins I take too: plus the prenatals, I take iron, vitamin C, D, B12, calcium citrate-mag supplement, plus stool softener and fiber because the iron does a number on me.  I know what you say about the money. There is a company called Puritan that has some pretty good deals on vitamins. It's a catalog/online company. You might want to check them. I think it's puritan.com or something like that. You might have to search for it. You can get buy one get one free or better for pretty cheap.

hi eileen!!! not sure if thats why or if its because i am not eating right!!! i got some good foods tonight when i went to get the new meds...so i am taking 4 citracal calcium citrates, 2 flintstones complete, iron, vit A 5000 iu, now vit D 1000 iu, and folic acid 800 mcg and b 12. plus my tylenol pm at night so i can sleep. 13 pills a day now and i am gagging on them..well the citracal ones make me gag they are so big...didn't have the petites when it was buy one get one free....so right now i need my insurance so i can get blood test again in 6 weeks...but they said it was ok to wait til i get it.

i sure hope we get out of here soon so i can really eat right again before i end up in hospital or dead!!! rick is upset over my eating now and is even more stressed with our still being here he said...i called the apartment complex and she said she had computer troubles today but is still working on it...so maybe tomorrow we will hear...i hope so because we want OUT OF HERE NOW!!!!!

will check out that site and see what they have...walmart was pretty good on what i got so i did ok. food tho is expensive!!!! wow

thanks for listening!!!

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Dear Judy,

I hope things will calm down for you. Life can be so unfair at times. Last week I was so down and out about everything and in just one day---Monday---life is looking pretty good now. Just keep hanging in there. Just remember to be good to yourself. You deserve it. I take 15 pills a day not including my vitamins. I hate it too but without them----I don't know where I'd be.

Love, Nancy

Judy www.puritianpride.com  is the web site for the vits. i have a cousin that is a chemist and she said they have all the stuff in them that the expensive  ones do. it is always buy one get two free. of everything.
i would say get off the baby flintstone vits. and get an adult one.
do you still take your protein shakes. they have a lot of good stuff in them .
spread your vits out over the day. you arent suppost to take your iron with calcium.
i spread mine out over 3 times a day so i dont have as many at once. besides if you are taking 2 of this and two of that you might get better results if you spread them out.
i take a lot more than you do because i take also  fish oil and flax seed oil
and some other natural herbal things.
the only thing i have ever have to be low was my white blood count last time and i just recentlly had another cbc done to see if it had come up any , havent heard so i assume it has. will call them today about that lol .
good luck, part of this journey is our responsibility to keep ourselves healthy. others cant do that for us. get back on your protein drinks if you arent still on them that will help give you a base of good stuff too. I still do 3 a day makes me feel better for sure. but then i love the things...and i have to make them richer than most do so i can get in enough calories. i tried leaving them off for about 3 months and i felt awful and couldnt get enough food in for the calories i needed plus no where near for the protein. so it was back to the shakes daily to boost for me. i know every one is different and some doctors out there dont approve of them and i wouldnt eithere if you drank them and then ate tremondus amounts of food too. would gain a lot fast. lol but for me it works. 

hi jan!!! the flintstones complete is what mmpc told me to take along with the other vitamins...so thats why i am taking those...my insurance didn't cover the pre natal vitamins because i was to "old" for them to cover it even tho my dr sent in letter they still said no!!! jerks!!! i don't take any meds with my calcium they are 2 in am and 2 in pm before bed the rest is middle of afternoon or 4 hours or so later. i bought some milk so i can take my protein shakes again!! just hard to do because of no storage for the milk here in ricks small frige...and jerry would either toss it out or drink it up so that doesn't work either...just need out of this place is all!!!!

thanks so much for answering me!!! oh!! is there a phone number for that vitamin place???

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hi nancy...oh things will calm down soon...just need to get out of this drama house and into my own place!!! yes things are going better for you and i am so happy for you!!!!

thanks for answering!!

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what are your numbers Judy? how do they compare to your last labs?