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Post Date 8/24/10 1:48 pm
Topic: Anyone know much about livers?

Why yes, I DO have a doctor. In fact, I have had 20 visits to docs this month! Thing is, I find I get better service when I can lead them in a direction, so I need ideas.

Here's the deal:

I am getting iron infusions. So.... for about a week, I have been able to have about one pellet sized black BM a day. I pretty much expected that. (I take prescription stool softeners and eat over 40g fiber daily.)

Today I was really uncomfortable and my weight's up four pound in three days, so I bit the bullet and used an enema (hey, thanks for poo-sharing, eh? Sorry.) I had a normal sized BM with that, but it was very light-- clay colored.

This also  happened before I had my gallbladder out-- and has happened a few times in recent months. The Ghost Poop seems to occur after a period of being very stopped up.

My liver enzymes were very high last year ( AST [2-35] was 58, ALT [2-40] was 79 ) but they are only slightly elevated now. (My red blood cells, ferritin, creat and iro sat are horrible, thus the infusions.)

I admit, I know nothing about this stuff at all. Sound like a liver issue? Spleen? Could I have a rogue stone in a bile duct even with the gallbladder long gone? Of course I will discuss these with my doc, just wondered what direction to look towards, if anyone has a similar experience.

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 8/22/10 8:54 pm
Topic: RE: Iron Deficiency Anemia- Infusions? Experiences? Advice? (x-post)

I understand. I am a very vocal proponent of the DS, generally speaking. (In my case, it looks like it wouldn't have been such a great idea, since I am ridiculously malabsorptive.)

Most RNYers don't count calories either. I do, because I LOVE to eat and overeat really easily. I actually eat more than most people I have encountered on this board, infact. The extra calories question is really so I can figure out whether what I am gaining is water (which will set off my edema) or "real weight"-- I gotta do it regardless, just wondered!

Thanks for understanding.

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 8/22/10 8:24 pm
Topic: RE: Iron Deficiency Anemia- Infusions? Experiences? Advice? (x-post)

No offense taken. I know my point of view is unusual.

Was it really easier to live when you were preop?  Like walking in the mall, going out on the town, etc., or are you referring to not having to take vitamins and being able to not really think about everything you have to do to keep reasonable healthy.?  My worry with high bp is that I will have a stroke before I'm 40......and I'm ready to not be held down by food anymore.

Nope, walking was hell afire. So was the blood sugar crashing, the laziness, the hydradenitis, the ob/gyn issues, the hygiene....it was all pretty lousy-- lousy enough to take the risk to fix it. But I am not talking about being inconvenienced by taking vitamins-- I anticipated all that. I did not anticipate the bowel obstruction that quite literally almost killed me, the emergency gallbladder surgery, or the pain, necessity and cost of plastics, or the edema, the malabsorption, and now, yeesh, the anemia. I know I had a risk of any/all of those, but I threw the dice and hoped it wouldn't happen to me. I also didn't know my co-pays would go from $5 to $30-- and
this month that's meant an additional $400 in bills, so I have to say I am probably extra cranky.

Unfortunately, that stuff DID happen, so there are times when I am not sure this was the best approach. But these things don't happen to most people, so the odds are probably still in a patient's favor-- I'm just having a run of craptastic luck lately and venting a lil'. Sorry 'bout that.

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 8/22/10 8:16 pm
Topic: RE: Iron Deficiency Anemia- Infusions? Experiences? Advice? (x-post)

I didn't say I wish I hadn't had WLS...I said that if that decision kills me, I am gonna be mighty pissed. Let me explain.

My plastics were largely to remove a pile of redundant skin that caused huge red bleeding sores and to relieve bad edema in my lower extremities....and  vanity-wise, to restore my face to it's former state when the hangy skin made me look sick, sallow and tired all the time. My fat face was quite a nice one. My deflated one was a mess. This doesn't contradict that I liked my fat face and body. If anything it shows how weird I felt I looked in the thin one, at least initially. I know, I have an unusual point of view. I mention the cost in my signature because I had an airtight case for reconstruction and still had to pay out of pocket for plastics, and want people to know that...many assume they will be covered, and they are not.

I have a longer bypass than most, so often the DS board offers insights I can't get on the RNY board, and I find that DSers stay on top of their own labs a mite better since it's more critical and better emphasized for you. AT this point I want to hear from anyone with any ideas ata ll, so I can start to understand and make choices about my own treatment.

Sorry if I offended.

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 8/22/10 7:08 pm
Topic: RE: Iron Deficiency Anemia- Infusions? Experiences? Advice? (x-post)

Your experience sounds a lot like my own. I feel like the bu****s me the next day as well-- I just wondered if aerobic exercise was potentially dangerous when I am feeling weak-- my blood pressure's also very low, and I have a heart murmur, so exercise is like pushing a boulder up a hill, still. Damn, I miss Zumba! Hope that like you the energy increases with more infusions. Cross fingers for me!

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 8/22/10 7:04 pm
Topic: RE: Iron Deficiency Anemia- Infusions? Experiences? Advice? (x-post)

Because I didn't have the surgery for aesthetic reasons: I did it to save my life. And regain puts me back down a path to immobility and sickness again, so I try to keep my weight as stable as I can, but to do so requires a very tight calorie schedule for me (I am an RNYer, not a DSer...less room for error, so they say.)

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 8/22/10 7:00 pm
Topic: RE: Iron Deficiency Anemia- Infusions? Experiences? Advice? (x-post)

And lastly, for Jupiter specifically, can I ask what motivated you to get such drastic surgery if you liked being a fat woman? (your body, identity, ease of daily living....)  That statement doesn't make sense to me (but I'm not saying it's not true, just that it's so hard to imagine being that before picture and being happy with my body, or living easily) 

I did it for my health. Everyone SAYS that, but I actually meant it.

I am sorry you find my *before* self offensive....I didn't. I really liked the gal. Enough to save her life, come to think of it.

People who have gastric surgery for aesthetic reasons, in my highly opinionated point of view, are pretty damn ridiculous. Too risky. Not even something I can bear the thought of.

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 8/22/10 11:43 am
Topic: RE: Ideas: Also...my bun/creat ratio is just plain stupid. Help? Hemolytic anemia?

I had 20 oz just before the draw.

Just tired, Kidnee. Thanks for the thoughts!

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 8/22/10 11:11 am
Topic: RE: Ideas: Also...my bun/creat ratio is just plain stupid. Help? Hemolytic anemia?

My bun/creat ratio is 51
BUN is 26
Creat is .49

And I drink more and better than ever--- 80 oz or more a day. :(

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 8/22/10 10:34 am
Topic: RE: Ideas: Also...my bun/creat ratio is just plain stupid. Help? Hemolytic anemia?

Thanks- I read that as well. I was hoping for some personal experiences.

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 8/22/10 10:09 am
Topic: Ideas: Also...my bun/creat ratio is just plain stupid. Help? Hemolytic anemia?

Seriously.

Bun/Creat ratio is supposed to be from 8 -27, mmkay?

Mine's now 51.

This cannot be good. C'mon now. Ideas?

(Yes, I do have doctors. They're just pretty useless in this regard. Everyone touches their part of the elephant-- grabs a tail, yells, "It's a snake!" but they aren't pulling it all together. That's MY job, I suppose.)

Anyone have hemolytic anemia? Ooooh looky-- I am internet diagnosing now, Med School is for sissies, har har.

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 8/22/10 10:03 am
Topic: RE: Iron Deficiency Anemia- Infusions? Experiences? Advice? (x-post)

Thanks, Julie! I did the Vitamin D dance already-- had a PTH of 78 at one point, but now it's a 32. Did that taking Vitalady's 50,000 iu jobbers.

I liked being a fat woman, actually, so this **** probably ****** me off more than most. I miss most things about my old life: body, identity, the ease of daily living-- everything now is angular, regimented, and now sick. I do get bitter when things are bad, but am trying to keep my head up.

Today's weird concern: just noticed my calcium is sliding back down again. Gah.

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 8/22/10 9:54 am
Topic: RE: Iron Deficiency Anemia- Infusions? Experiences? Advice? (x-post)

Think it was Venofer they were giving you? (It's iron and sucrose-- it's that bag o' sugar that worries me.)

Thanks, Diana. This is a result not just of crappy absorption, but the ceaseless surgical procedures (emergency and reconstructive) in the past few years, I am sure. Right now my body really just wants to be left the hell alone, I think. You know THAT drill. ;)

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 8/22/10 9:33 am
Topic: Iron Deficiency Anemia- Infusions? Experiences? Advice? (x-post)

I know, Debbie Downer here. When I was actively losing weight, I saw nothing but rainbows and puppy dogs m'self, but after a couple years, it seems the health issues come out of hiding en masse.

I used to read about that stuff and think, "Well, that stupid slob didn't take their vitamins. Duh."

I have taken my supplements religiously. More than most people, and following all the rules. I have been accountable every day, balanced my diet, and now I am tanking once again.

This time, it's anemia. I started seeing a cardiologist in April because I kept "hitting the wall" when I exercise-- it was suddenly getting harder, and wearing me out. He discovered a new murmur, but nothing major.

In May, I had my hormones tested, because I was so emotionally labile and weepy I wasn't making any sense. We discovered I had three times the amount of estrogen in my system of a normal woman my age, so I started taking HRT. And it was through these labs that we also discovered I am anemic. Which explains why I just haven't been able to get my head up off the floor, bootstrapping or not.

My Ferritin level is a 9. (Normal is 13-50.) Your ferritin is your back-up or storage iron. Once you start depleting that, you're hosed. My red blood calls (normal is 3.8-5.1) went from a 4.3 to 2.9. My iron saturation (nromal is 15-55) is at a freakin' 4.

So my PCP tells me to take some more Carbonyl. Mmmmmkay-- but of course it did not a damn thing. That's the thing with the iron-- you either absorb it orally or you don't. Turns out I don't, and had been living off the stored stuff for three years. So we toussle a bit and he sends me t o a hematologist/oncologist. I watched my labs tank over time, but no one would do anything because the weren't officially *low.*

In 2008, my Ferritin (stored iron) was 149 . Again, today-- it's a 9. NINE.  Now, I am *officially* LOW.

I go to the hematologist, and he says, "No, that's NOT normal, that's hideous. We can give you some better iron, if you think that will help." By better iron, I know he means heme iron, which costs me $70 a month, and I have figured out by now will not do squatola to raise iron scores. So I say, "Let's skip the formalities and talk infusion." And he says, "Bigger issue is why you're losing the iron, but yep, I agree, you need the infusion, and you need it now. Like, today. Like, let's go now."
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The infusion lab is also the chemo lab. You immediately are treated very very kindly ("Care for a drink? A cookie?") because the people around you are fighting for their lives. This is humbling. They even offer you a special parking spot, but I refused mine-- as long as I am able-bodied, I am hoofin' it!

I was lucky-- I am getting Venofer. Venofer is an iron sucrose IV. The first infusion lasts about an hour and they watch you very closely for anaphylaxis. I felt fine. I am scheduled for nine more shorter infusions-- each lasting a half hour. (I have now had three so far.) The doc tells me we will retest in a while, but there's a very good chance I will be coming to this blood lab three times a week, cyclically, for the rest of my life.

I had the RNY to get healthy. Truly. And this ain't it. So yep, while I appreciate the smaller size, these sicknesses make me angry. And yes, I am thrilled to have insurance, but the $30 co-pay each time I walk in a doctor's door (and that's 18 times this month) is kicking my ass up and down a street. And while I am so very glad not to be one of the chemo people, it sure is a freakin' bummer to literally spend my entire summer in medical and surgical care, as a direct result of an electove surgery I had on a perfectly functional gastointestinal system.

My friend said, "But hey, you look great." I wanted to kick her ass on the spot. If I end up a gorgeous corpse, I am going to be so effin' pissed.
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For those of you who have gone the infusion route:

1) Did you get the level back up and maintain with oral iron, or are you back in for infusions periodically?

2) You get yours in big doses, or smaller ones spaced days apart?

3) Any side effects? (I feel like I wa**** by a bus the day after, just general malaise.)

4) I am noticing a little weight gain-- did you have that as well? How much? Did it come back off after you stopped getting the IV fluids? (I know, it's 30% sucrose and a bag of fluids, so water gain is unavoidable. I don't want to eat less, though, because I feel so weak as it is. Should I drop back my calories?)

5) How low were your numbers, and did you continue to exercise? Any changes in your exercise routine?

Thanks for any advice/stories you can share.

-S.

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 7/28/10 8:32 pm
Topic: RE: ***Tuesday Bites & Vites***

hey sistah-- you got your DS? COOL!

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 7/20/10 9:53 pm
Topic: RE: Larissa's here for round two, and this time she's still standing!

Sounds like a case of "the worst of both worlds"'-- something I know a bit about with an extended RNY. Watch your labs like a hawk, especially the PTH.

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 12/6/09 8:44 pm
Topic: RE: How Many S.O. Post-Ops Actually Made It?

I was super morbidly obese and am now "normal" sized, with a BMI of 24.5.

And without a DS. And I am *still* losing. And I eat over 160 grams of carbs a day.

OH MAI GAH I AM A FWEAKIN' MIRACLE! ;) Call Weekly World News!

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 11/14/09 5:12 pm
Topic: RE: Potential RNY Revision could stand to hear from y'all....

I just want to thank you all for coming to this young lady's aid. Regardless of your opinion of the RNY itself (I own one of demz, and so far so good) I really find the concept of distal RNYs absolutely counterintuitive and pretty foolhardy, and am surprised the option is stil even offered.

Nice work. Again, thanks.

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 11/14/09 2:03 pm
Topic: Potential RNY Revision could stand to hear from y'all....

http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/rny/4063671/My-Surgery-Proximal-RNY-to-Distal-RNY-xpost/#33026618

Spread the good word!

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 10/27/09 8:19 pm
Last Edit: 10/27/09 8:20 pm
Topic: RE: The first Confess Your Carbs thread

Not proud, (what kinda dumb ass eats crap like this? Only a major one, it ain't healthy) but sure am happy I can occasionally go there these days!

I'd guess that many RNYers actually can eat as I do. They just either don't want to (it ain't a great idea) or don't know how to approach it. By two years out, dumping syndrome's mostly a thing of the past for those unfortunate enough to have it in the first place, so carbs can gang up on you fast!

The history MsPP: I took a lot of lumps early out about my inferior surgery (had no choice, RNY was covered, DS was not) and it made me miserable and sad.  People taunted me during my early weight loss phase, and mocked me, and told me I'd never eat again...and i was terribly upset by it. I really wanted to share that it does get better, even with an RNY. And hopefully things'll lighten up for you all as well. I was despondent early on because I didn't know that.

But nope, didn't always eat this way and still don't-- just on vacation. A normal day is 1700 calories, balanced as 35% protein, 35% carbs, 30% fat.  (tends to be 150-170g carbs and protein). And when I was early out, it was a similar balance, but on a hell of a lot fewer calories.

My only point was that there's cookies on the other side as well...on occasion. Wasn't poking at you...just wanted people to know that there's some freedom later if you stick to your guns now.

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 10/27/09 7:51 pm
Topic: RE: The first Confess Your Carbs thread

I eat about 170 gross carbs a day on a normal day-- and get in about 170g of protein as well--- but here's a collage of last week's vacation haul, which was pretty damn carby!

(Let this post stand as my testament as to why I really don't have to have DS envy these days. ;)

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 10/13/09 7:26 pm
Last Edit: 10/13/09 7:27 pm
Topic: RE: OT: Let's play a game called "DS Hell"

My RNY diet includes all foods, including the carbs you all tend to avoid. (Usually about 160g of them, daily.) No bad gas, no weight gain. We all have our crosses to bear, so as a carbaholic, I'm in good shape. ;) And I chew normally.

Too much false information out there-- much of it, unfortunately, perpetuated by RNYers and surgeons. :(

Most of us can and do eat just about everything. About 30% have dumping syndrome early out-- but even most of those get past that eventually.

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 10/13/09 7:22 pm
Topic: RE: OT: Let's play a game called "DS Hell"

I eat both bacon and butter-- and am an RNYer. Most of us do.

Jus' sayin'!

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 10/10/09 5:03 pm
Last Edit: 10/10/09 5:03 pm
Topic: RE: Yummy DS Friendly Mini Muffin Recipe

Use the same recipe, but use chocolate whey protein and add 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder. No cinnamon/spices or currants. Nuts if you dig 'em. And 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce in place of butternut.

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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Post Date 10/10/09 12:00 pm
Topic: RE: Yummy DS Friendly Mini Muffin Recipe

Why would you need 'em? I mean, I thought you all had cookies! ;)

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.   Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

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