OMG, can you really Laura! I eat between 1200-1300 per day to maintain at 120 pounds. I am pretty sure I would gain (a lot) at 2000. Good for you!

Karen

I had my gastric bypass revision Sept. 17 and I am home recovering.  My original bypass was 10 years ago.  I started slowly experiencing weight gain (lost 130 pounds) and it continued to get worse over time.  I kept thinking I had done something and "messed" it up.  I finally had such a horrible situation with GERD, no energy, and weight gain that I went to a bariatric surgeon here in Orlando.  The Upper GI showed I had a "Mechanical Failure" of the surgery.  My pouch and old stomach "re-connected" a fistula (or ulcer) formed where the two re-connected and the contents of my pouch were going straight in to my old stomach.  This also formed a stricture ....basically I had a big mess.  I am starting to feel a little better now as the revision surgery has been harder than the first surgery. 

I am ten years out and having that problem. Im down 30# in less than 3 weeks. just posted details in a post on main board. I am having an exploratory lap in 2 days but I am getting really scared. Just found this site after researching the internet. Im off work and can’t do much of anything. Looking for input

Hi

1st of all you're doing great because you are trying to get it right. It's not easy when we all absorb differently. I'm 6 years post op. My blood work always came back fine. But this past 2 years my life has been crazy and I actually forgot to go. I took a friend for her 4 week check up and I had not had blood drawn there in 18 mos. My family doc had but not nearly to the extent of my surgeon does. I have just recently switched from the adult gummed to a prenatal vit. I'd been having chronic headaches for some time. They suddenly just stopped. It took dr. Oz lol saying on one of his shows that low magnesium causes migraines. My prenatal has magnesium in it.  I also have been bruising easily. I take 500mg. Of b 12 sublingual 2 calcium citrate. I don't go until the 22 to get blood work. Not sure what to change at this point. 

Most of us modify how much and what type vitamins to take based on our labs. 

But the basic what is recommended for gastric bypass person is

2 x multi vitamins (best in divided dosage 1 pill x 2 a day )

1200-1500 mg calcium citrate.  No more than 600 mg at a time

Vit D3 (depends on current blood level. But most recommend blood test D3 to be more than 35...)

B12 - i like my blood level to be higher than 800)

Iron + vitamin C (some of us don't absorb that our deal with severe pain and constipation when taking iron)

And in addition some of us take magnesium, and any other vitamins that we show low - or low normal on blood work. 

I bruise easily and i don't eat a lot off veggies/ greens so i supplement K and K2..., B1, and folic acid. (I can't take B complex because my B6 were way to high at one point....).