how do you know it's right?
My vitamin d got low, and is still low. He said to take the gel capsules you can get at walmart and walgreens. Uh, No!
I am like Nikki. I take everything everyone says with a grain of salt. My father was misdiagnosed by a dr. years and years ago and almost died because of it. I was misdiagnosed years ago and sent home three times from the e.r. Told my pain was in my head. Ended up almost rupturing my gall bladder.
Doctors are people. They are human. They will make mistakes. We all do. I will not trust my life to someone blindly because they went to school years ago.
Just because they went to medical school doesn't mean they have kept up with all the latest info. Usually they are behind in info because they spend all their available time working.
I've asked doctors about continuing education, because when I worked as a massage therapist it was required. Two of them refused to answer my question. One said he would do it, but would look for the shortest cont. ed. class he could get by with. That he was just too busy. Doesn't inspire trust does it?
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I have low trust in doctors but I am also sort of lazy. I am trying to make it my business to read and research more about my body, especially since I am at the point where my deficiencies are presenting both physically AND on a lab sheet.
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I went with a center of excellence, and with a hospital whose reputation I trust. So that was a start. I also came here for a lot of information, as well as talked to a lot of people in real life. We didn't discuss all vitamins,as I know iron, b12, etc get talked about at the first follow up (we talked about multi and calcium, and were told we needed to take others, but details were to follow).
I also think that many people rely on surgeons as follow up care, when that is not their area. They rely on specialists in those areas. so that is another thing to consider where there are follow up issues. I think it would be great if more PCP's were trained in bariatric followup
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Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
on 12/25/11 7:48 am
My PCP is very open too and always learning about wls, we always discuss things and I am happy to have a PCP that wants to learn about wls , I think he does more than my wls surgeon does.He told me my protein levels were good, I always ask for a copy of my blood work, when I looked at it my protein level was low, he also try to get me to take the little football oil caps . when I went to my PCP he had already ready read my blood work and said my protein level was down and I should not be taking the green oil caps. He had research it. I know that Doctors are human but it is good to always research things. this site on here about question and answers have helped me a lot too with talking to people on here, that is why I like Kelly, she has helped me a lot too, when she put out some information on here, I start researching it and checking it out. Thanks Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Anyway, I appreciate you.
(edited to add... if a "C" is a passing grade in medical school then there are surgeon's out there who should have to display their college report cards! Keep questioning them, Kelly - and keep giving us the information you find! :) )
My surgeon is top notch and his staff is as well. They did have Flintstones on their list, but have since gone to Centrum Silver with Iron supplements. My surgeon did a televised RNY for med schools and hospitals internationally. He has a 5yr follow up plan and the surgeon, nurse, NUT (dietician) and office manager all attend support group (though the support group is changing format and is kind of chaoticI didn't know where to question or what to question until I came here. So far pretty much everything matches up, but like Nik, I now question everything.