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The double edged sword of a malabsorptive procedure. 6 is not good for sure (I had 2 and took iron w/c since the beginning, just happens sometimes) 2 -30 minute iron infusions a week a part (new-ish called injectafer http://www.injectafer.com/ ) and I was back up in normal range again. Ask your Dr about those... sometimes we just don't absorb the oral stuff.
~Michelle "Shelly"
So within a weeks time I've been put on two acid blockers: Prilosec AND Zantac. I am to take them together twice a day. I am also on Celexa so I was told to be really careful because they aren't supposed to be given together.
I have a referral for an Upper GI and while I was there I made an appt. for the nutritionist. I can't believe after 8 years I'm sitting in a doctors office about in tears over my weight. I said this is HARD, hard as hell and no one who hasn't been overweight, severely overweight for a very long period of time can understand what this feels like. I am 43lbs heavier than I was 3 years ago and I'm afraid it's only going to get worse. He started telling me about some weight loss drugs that might work. He was being nice and trying to be helpful but I DO NOT want to take another FLIPPING pill!!! I have a box full now! The good news is I'm down 2lbs since my last visit with him last thursday:)
He was shocked to learn that my lowest weight was 170. He asked me how tall I was and kind of made a face. I said I was walking, going to the gym and doing Zumba. It wasn't like I wasn't trying. I look at all the people who look so skinny after wls and that was NEVER me! I tried like hell but it was Never me!
Feeling so...
Just had 1 yr bloodwork. Ferritin dropped from 41 before RNY, to 26 at 6 mos, to 12 a month ago, and now to 6. Now I'm on prescription iron supplements for 3 months. My question is just how bad is 6, and have others found the supplements helpful? I've been taking a multivitamin with iron all along.
I see. If your medical records don't specifically. Say you mal absorb because of Wls,then you might pass ok. Anyone can have malabsorption issues, even normies. Do keep us posted though.
on 11/6/14 10:22 am
I have a IRA that I will have to start drawing off next year. My banker thought buying an insurance policy would be a good place to put the money and make it grow for my children. He had the insurance agent to contact. I guess, my comment about them looking for me was not quite true. I have about decided I do not want to put my funds there anyway but will wait till I hear from the insurance company to decide.
Anyway, the nurse came to do my labs, history, etc. She ask about hospitalizations in the last five years. Since my wls was nine years ago, I did not have to mention it. But my doctor's records will be gotten. My doctor lists me as mal-absorbing. I bet his mentioning that I do not absorb everything will cause a problem. It will be interesting to see how this turns out. I am glad I do not really need this policy.
Thanks for replying. I will post how the insurance company handle this. I was told it would take six weeks to get the results from everything back. Forgot to mention, I have had no problems with the surgery and my labs are real good.
Ruby
RNY 3/2005 
some life insurance companies deny Wls patients altogether. Some will cover patients after 2-5 years post op if they have had no issues related to the Wls. It is a real toss up as to which way they roll.
What do you mean. They came looking for you you didn't go. Looking for them?
life insurance companies don't like to take chances they will have to pay out and someone having had Wls,while healthier in most respects,still have to possibility of having adverse reaction to the surgery itself and dying. I disagree with. This personally,but that is what life insurances look at,what is the likely hood of someone dying in. The next few immediate years from weight loss surgery not how long Wls is going to help them live.
I have been having the same problem. I had the gastric bypass in 2007. I decided to Google twisting, constricting spasm, Charlie horse abdomen pain because I need answers and landed here. I can recall having these episodes years before even having my gastric bypass surgery as far back as the 1990s. Recently they are becoming more and more intense and come on a daily basis. It gets so bad I start to sweat and feel like Im going to pass out from the pain and the tightening. It feels like my intestines are twisting and I can literally see them moving and my stomach on the right side right under my rib cage become hard as a rock. Before I would just stretch my self backwards and the ball would sort of roll back in place and disappeared, it would only happened when I would bend forward. But now that maneuver doesn't work. I try pressing on the bulge, pulling my stomach out as far (sort of like if making it bloated) as I can and nothing. I just have to try and stand stretched straight, literally looking up towards the ceiling and wait it out. I get it when I bend, while I'm sitting at work, as I am about to wipe myself on the toilet, there's no 1 thing I can now pin point to say why this occurs. I have made an apt with an Gastro internal doctor to see if he has any idea what is causing this. This is the most painful thing I have experienced apart from child birth. I hope someone comes up with a solution because it has been happening to me even while I'm driving and I literally felt I was going to have an accident. Thanks for reading. 
Had one two weeks ago and it's true. The last thing I remember is the them telling me to take in two deep breaths and woke up in recovery.
