Good Morning. Quiz

1) How big (size or volume) is your sleeve or pouch?

2) If you're a malabsorber, how long is your bypass or common channel?

3) If you're a Sleever, did your surgeon use a F. bougie to measure. What size bougie did he/she use on you?

4) What vitamin and mineral deficiencies are known to occur most often with your surgery?

5) Do lightweights lose slower than heavy weights?

6) What does swinging lizards mean?

On September 3, 2011 at 4:07 AM Pacific Time, MajorMom wrote: Look up Gina--I thought you were in DC?

A quiz?  To start the weekend?  Ugh!

1- I knew the size of my pouch right after the surgery-can't remember now but Dr. Rosenthal said it was small
2-I know it's distal, not proximal
3-I'm a poucher
4-All, especially D, B12, iron.  And calcium is a must because there is a greater risk of osteoporosis with RNY
5-so I've been told. and it makes sense but sometimes I use it as an excuse for not having lost more.  I'm the reaason, not my size!
6-sending good thoughts, non-religious prayers, support and hope

Okay I failed but it's only 7 in the morning and i should be sleeping but I tossed and turned ALL night
Janet

 1) How big (size or volume) is your sleeve or pouch?

My sleeve is a little over 4 oz.

 2) If you're a malabsorber, how long is your bypass or common channel?

My common channel is 125 cm.

 3) If you're a Sleever, did your surgeon use a F. bougie to measure. What size bougie did he/she use on you?

Dr. Pomp used a "loose" 40F bougie.

 4) What vitamin and mineral deficiencies are known to occur most often with your surgery?

I am suffering from severe lack of sleep due to 4 legged children so I pleaded the 5th on this question.

 5) Do lightweights lose slower than heavy weights?

Never stopped me from losing weight.

 6) What does swinging lizards mean? 

"Swinging lizards" is a non-religious way of expressing support for someone.  The reason lizards are used instead of chickens has to do with member sensitivities.

I got an 83 on the quiz.  Not bad for a pop quiz.

So I hope the afternoon folks do better than the early morning ones. 

1) How big (size or volume) is your sleeve or pouch?  Pouch, have no idea

2) If you're a malabsorber, how long is your bypass or common channel?  Have no idea

3) If you're a Sleever, did your surgeon use a F. bougie to measure. What size bougie did he/she use on you?
not a sleever

4) What vitamin and mineral deficiencies are known to occur most often with your surgery?
All I think, and I must be really malabsorbing protein

5) Do lightweights lose slower than heavy weights?
Not if you look at percentage of excess weight lost instead of number of pounds.

6) What does swinging lizards mean?
Sending you love and light and healing

1) I have no idea--I never asked.

2) Don't malabsorb with sleeve although the nurse at my surgeon's office said there's some new thoughts that sleevers may, in fact, malabsorb and there's some research going on about it now.

3) My bougie size is 34.

4) I take a multivitamin, b12, b3, and calcium.  I believe the suseptible deficiencies are the b12, b3, and calcium.

5) As we lose weight, we burn less calories in day-to-day life because we're carrying around less weight.  I think everyone burns calories slower the closer to goal we get.

6) Swinging lizards means wishing good luck--at least that's the way I always took it.

You have to ask me questions since I am some kind of weird hybrid and a revision, to boot.

1) How big (size or volume) is your sleeve or pouch?
With my first surgery I had a sleeve and on my surgical report it said they removed the greater curve of the stomach and reduced the volume by 50%.  They did things bigger in those days.
Now I  have a pouch and I was told it was 30cc.

2) If you're a malabsorber, how long is your bypass or common channel?
Again, I am a freak.  My common channel was 100cc to begin with and with my revision it is now 200cc.

3) If you're a Sleever, did your surgeon use a F. bougie to measure. What size bougie did he/she use on you?
No bougie's were used in 2002 as far as I know.

4) What vitamin and mineral deficiencies are known to occur most often with your surgery?
This is the tricky part because I have the worst of both worlds.  I know I need B12 now because of the pouch and I know that I malabsorb the ADEKs.  I seem to be good with the B vits because they have all been high.  I also need iron, C, zinc and a bunch of other fun stuff.  Plus lots of protein and calcium.

5) Do lightweights lose slower than heavy weights?
I sure didn't.  I think it is like Price says, it looks slower but the percentages are pretty close.

6) What does swinging lizards mean? 
It means someone doesn't care much for reptiles.

1) How big (size or volume) is your sleeve or pouch? Mine is 4 oz...I asked as soon as I saw my surgeon after my surgery.

2) If you're a malabsorber, how long is your bypass or common channel? My common channel is 175 cc, longer than a typical DS but it works for me.

3) If you're a Sleever, did your surgeon use a F. bougie to measure. What size bougie did he/she use on you? I have no clue

4) What vitamin and mineral deficiencies are known to occur most often with your surgery? ALL of them and we really have to watch every single one.

5) Do lightweights lose slower than heavy weights? No, it just seems that way unless you look at percentage lost and not lbs lost.

6) What does swinging lizards mean? To pray for someone in a non-denominational way.

Liz

1) How big (size or volume) is your sleeve or pouch?

I can eat about 4-6 oz of most things. I believe the actually sleeve is only 1-2 oz. but stretches when we eat (and this is true of pouches too).

2) If you're a malabsorber, how long is your bypass or common channel? N/A

Someone mentioned that there is new thought that maybe VSGers malabsorb. It's actually that we maldigest. That is, the food isn't broken down enough in the stomach so it can be fully absorbed in the intestines.

3) If you're a Sleever, did your surgeon use a F. bougie to measure. What size bougie did he/she use on you?

32f

4) What vitamin and mineral deficiencies are known to occur most often with your surgery?

Calcium. (And that's true for all the surgeries except lapband due to a lack of stomach acid in the pouch/sleeve)

Some small percentage of sleevers also have issues with B12 and/or Iron

Of course, anyone can have deficiencies at any time for a host of reasons including people without WLS so it pays to monitor everything.

5) Do lightweights lose slower than heavy weights?

No, we lose about the same percentage of excess weight. But often get to goal faster and are more likely to lose all our excess weight.

6) What does swinging lizards mean? 

It's like sending prayers or wishing for luck. It started with Swinging Chickens which was considered more inclusive than saying "I'll pray for you." But we LWs swing lizards instead of chickens because Susie Wong once said she didn't have any chickens but she could swing this lizard that she found on her patio. Some of us swing other things. Like Canadian beavers and *****hilas.