Blood tests

I know DS people need to have these regularly but do the rest of you? On the US boards, everyone seems to be having blood tests all the time! For everything!!

I have never had a single one post-op! Or pre-op for that matter. I don't think I have ever been tested for any nutritional thing other than iron (for cholestrol etc, yes but I am talking about Vits , minerals etc.). I don't know whether that is because as a bandster I don't malabsorb or because the UK is less test-mad than the US.

Who apart from DSers has regular blood tests here? I suppose RNY malabsorb so perhaps you RNYers do? What about VSGers? Other bandsters?

Kate

 
My surgeon recommended I was tested every 6 months, but that will be entirely off my own back - I will need to instigate it with the docs.  I'll be glad to do it - then I will know where I'm at with my vits, and I can maybe play around with dropping some of them, well thats the dream.

X

My surgeon doesn't need to see me until 6 months post-op, no tests, just weigh and eyeball inspection for a vsg.  I'm on a multivitamin daily, not the 4 or 5 items that USA vsgers seem to be on.

I try to go for every 6 months too. Sure-if it were up to my GP, it would only be occasionally to check my liver function due to meds-etc.

I studied up and it's just a good thing-if you can get them done. I don't know if it is really life and death that you do them twice a year-but certainly yearly. There is a list of recommended tests-which I have copied to my PC for next time I go in for my bloods. 

Of course-since I had RNY I need to really keep an eye on things-etc.

Take care,
T