The Loser's Bench
Labs... Mostly Good News, But I need more D3
I am a little over 3.5 years post RNY and I had my labs run again. While most of the news was good news, it did show that I'm not absorbing as much D as I need so I got another Rx for 8 weekly doses of 50K of D3. We'll retest after this course and see how it's going. We're also checking with my insurance to see about starting a regimen of Reclast or another injectable medication to help reverse the osteoporosis I've developed and hopefully get me back to the land of osteopinia if not back on solid ground. I have really been worrying that I had compromised my health with my decision to have RNY and have been beating myself up about it. My PCP said that I have to remember that while my RNY is likely a contributing factor in my fight with osteoporosis, that the meds I take for my depression, my family history and the fact that I hit menopause at the same time I had my RNY are all likely significant factors in my osteoporosis. He said that he felt that my osteoporosis is mild at this time and that he thinks we can reverse it with a combination of managing my supplementation, exercise, and alternating medications for osteoporosis with estrogen therapy. (We'll do a year of Reclast and when we take off a year to give my bones and body a break from the Reclast, we'll put me on estrogen therapy to try to maintain the bone stores, then switch back to the Reclast the following year, and so on...) He said that the relative trade-offs that my labs showed in healthy glucose, cholesterol, lipids, etc. are a testament to my good overall general health and that he thought that everything we do has trade offs. That said, he thinks my decision to have my WLS have served me well. That was comforting.
Barbara
ObesityHelp Coach and Support Group Leader
http://www.obesityhelp.com/group/bcumbo_group/
High-264, Current-148, Goal-145
