IF YOU HAVE NO THYROID GLAND, BE WARNED...

Make sure you DO still have your parathyroid glands and that they ARE functioning. If you do, you shouldn't have any problems. However, if you don't, and you are considering having a distal gastric bypass with a bileopancreatic diversion, please note...my primary physician and my endocrinologist have both warned that such drastic surgery will make the calcium malabsorption problem much worse, to the point of being a lifelong danger. When I first began thinking about it, there were no cases like mine, according to my surgeon. The three doctors did research on their own and added their expert knowledge and came to this conclusion. We must have calcium in our bloodstream in order for our muscles to work properly---and that includes our heart! Without parathyroid function, one must take massive doses of calcium carbonate daily just to stay alive. Don't make it worse!

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