Has anyone found after surgery that your immune system is compromised?

Sounds like you're trying to do everything right!

Have you been to a hematologist? They specialize in blood and may be able to help you and take a look at your vitamin regime to see if you're getting eveything you need and see if there are any underlying blood disorders causing all of this.

I would also start asking your specialists for a referral for an internist they would recommend to help coordinate all of your doctors. Don't go to just anyone. Start asking the doctors you meet who they recommend. Ask your bariatric surgeon which ones have experiece with bariatric patients. Doctors know who the other good doctors are. Unfortunately some are good and some not so good.

Good luck!

 Thinking of you while you are struggling with this. Have you asked your Doctor about foods you are eating with your vits? Some vits need to bind to fat and some foods can be no nos to take along with your vits that don't allow them to absorb properly. What has your VGS surgeon said about all this?

 I am sorry you are going through so much and hope they get it resolved!!   big hugs to you.

 My dear are you eating? And how many calories are you getting in a day? I only ask because I see you mention that you have not had an appetite for two years and dont like to bother fixing anything to eat.  You must force it down because it sounds as though you have malnourished yourself. I do hope you get your health back on track.

Blessings,
Jenny

My thoughts and prayers are will you.  Please research and take care of yourself.  Many of the things you mentioned may or may not be related to your VSG.  Not that ANYTHING can't happen once you lay on an operating table and get cut open and rearranged.  Partial and full gastrectomies have been done for over 30 years, so there is a ton of research out there.  Whi*****ludes mentioning that many partients suffer from calcium loss and b-12 definciency (the main 2).  Which requires a GOOD vitamin supplementation and not just trusting a doctor *****ally does NOT have your best interest but getting copies of YOUR labs and personally seeing YOUR levels.

Please keep us informed, we are here for you when you need us.

Ms Shell

Why did you have a blood transfusion?  What specific levels were low?

Most of the things your describing (including depression) are clinical symptoms of hypothyroidism.  Have you been to an endocrinologist or had a full thyroid panel run with antibodies? PCP's tend to follow the old recommendations for medicating for hypothyroidism whereas endocrinologist use the more up-to-date reference ranges which cut off the 'normal' range for TSH at 3 rather than 5.  A simple TSH test is not enough, though. Endo's run Free t4, antibodies, etc. 

I am a nurse, gastric bypass pt., and a cancer pt.   It has been proven at the large teaching hospital where I work that the cancer was caused by a depressed immune system that showed up 3 years out from my surgery.  None of the doctors knew why.  In 2010 I am diagnosed with

Lymphoma.  Doctors wouldn't listen when I kept saying this was caused from a vitamin deficiency which occured from gastric bypass surgery.

It has now been proven five years later and documented lab values drawn every two months.  This one vitamin controls my immune system

and this happens to every bypass pt.  I am shocked the number of pts. that come through our hospital with history of past bypass surgery

and either are not on any supplements or may 6 years out still taking a fred flintstone chewable vitamin.  The results can be fatal.

Soon I will be starting a website to instruct other bypass pts. how to improve their quality of life on a long term basis and avoid, iron transfusions, bone loss, etc.   A lot of hospitals do not have long term bariatric clinics.  Even those hospitals that do are not always

up to date.  My cancer has changed a lot of the teachings of our bariatric clinic and I still see room for improvement.   One of the biggests problems with loss of teeth, curvature of the spine, cannot be corrected if left untreated.   Watch for my website coming soon.  The Road

To Wellness.  I can turn your life around as I have myself.  Due to my discovery, our oncology clinic is now treating other lymphoma pts.

with high doses of this vitamin.