Got the green light today

Well first thank you again to everyone here as it helped me get though the surgeon and the behavorist today due to the knowledge I have learned from all of you :-)

Dr K today explained all the surgery options, asked me what I thought and why? so I was able to present my case with my issues and he was ok with doing DS surgery, but said he wants to do a 150cm common channel with me and explained that he felt that any shorter would be to much malabsorption for my body type.

He also wants me to start 30,000 IU Vit D with 10,000  3 times a day. 

I have my endoscopy scheduled for next week Thursday and they said they can't give a surgery date since I have one set of labs they are waiting for which they should get this week and the results of the endoscopy, But did say it should be 2 to 4 weeks max after all the results are in and everything passes on the labs and scan.

Insurance no problem and a green light, all they have to do is verify my insurance since everything is met.

One thing I got from the behaviorst today is pretty cool and that is this website
www.unjury.com/store/protein/protein_tools/pdcaas.html

You can put in all the info from your proteiin into this calculator and it will tell you how much of your protein you actually absorbing and how much is going into the sewer!  Pretty cool.

I did the optimum Nutrition Gold Standard Whey that im taking,  It says that you will absorb all 24 grams of protein with none wasted. He was showing me another brand, I don't recall which, but only 7 grams out of 20 was absorbed by the body.  He got this info from the nutritionist which I will see after the surgery.

They said they found out that it worked best doing the Nut after cause most people are to hyped up or over loaded and have a hard time keeping it under control and either go overboard with it or just don't do enough.

So with that being said,  Lets all figure out what protein were taking and maybe make a thread so we know which one has the best absorbtion and the worst. 

We might find out that cheaper could be better?? or maybe not

What do you think about doing that?

Sounds like you are moving right along.  good for you.

The protein thing sounds interesting and I will try it if I can figure it out.  I wonder if all of them list all that stuff.  So far, I have just tried to stick with whey isolate since it is suppose to be the easiest to absorb.

If it does list it you put it in,  If its not on the lable then put 0.  The protein im using listed all of them and others too. so it will be interesting if we all do our own then do a data base?

Otherwise we could all be sitting home doing the lable search on everything and wasting a lot of time instead of using the power of all of us :-) and just do it once.

Things are moving at a much faster pace than I antispated thats for sure but im glad it is.

I have been doing the Optimum Nutrition Vanilla for many months now and it isby far my FAVORITE! Now I know I will definately keep drinking it.


Good Luck with it all, sounds like you are well on your way :)

Congratulations! Things are really coming right along.

I put IDS Mulit-Pro Vanilla-Cinnamon in the calculator and came out with 100 PDCASS.

--gina

Congrats, Tony...let us know when you get your date.

Liz

Make sure you put the grams of protein per serving in to and hit the calculate corrected amount button which will show the protien amount. 

Wow - moving right along - congratulations!!!  I'm sure the rest will speed by.

I'm going to go check out the link now.

Glad things went well for you! Sure is nice to have finally made the official decision...you are about the same timeline as I was last year for this...had my scope about this time and ended up with surgery in the middle of August..hope it goes fast for you too!

Glad to hear things are moving in the right direction for you.

As for the protein, preop I could tolerate almost anything, but postop my tastes changed dramatically. I finally found about time protein. It is what I use every day and my protein levels are good, so I assume absorption must be ok. On the website they have trial packs. Tryabouttime.com  I think is the site.

You will find we all have our favorites, its finding the one you can handle postop.