iron levels

Ok before surgery my iron was low. D was high. Six weeks out doctor says every thing looks great. How do i get these from him to look at them my self. I havnt been taking iron so how can it be good now. Im taking fusion vitamins doctor says i should need anything else with these no extra b 12 or calicium. Is this agreeable to people have they needed extra vitamins with fusion??
Some insight on this would be much apprecated. Loretta

 Hello,
My situation was close to yours. Before surgery I was put on iron and D, since surgery (although it was not RNY) I have only taken the Fusion vitamins. My levels have been all good now. I was also told Fusion should be enough and no others 'should' be needed. Although they still do check my levels before each visit just to make sure. But with your RNY surgery I know you may have other issues. You can always have your PCP look at the results or show them to you if you are unsure? Good luck to you on your journey :-)

You just ask your doctor for a copy of the lab report.

I'm really surprised to hear your D was high.  Were you taking big doses of D3?

If you mean the Bariatric Fusion vitamins, remember that the ASMBS says you need 200% of the RDA of things and one of those only has about 25% of most things, so you need to take EIGHT a day, not four like the bottle says.

Also, you need 1500-2000 mg calcium citrate, and four of them only gives you 1200 mg calcium and some of that is calcium carbonate, which you can't absorb.

You still need B12, too, because you can't absorb B12 from a chewable vitamin because you don't have enough intrinsic factor in your pouch.  You need a sublingual, or the nasal spray, or shots.

thanks this helps alot wow 8 a day to exspensive and no i was only taken a chewable calium before surgery with d in it. ive been taking extra b12 and calium so thats good. Loretta

One thing you can't afford not to do is not take enough vitamins or get away from them...Here I am 5 years out and I screwed up but slacking up and you just can't get back on them and think in a month, two months threes, it will get better cause it doesn't...It is extremely hard with vitamins for them to obsorb into our gastric system if you have the by pass.  Hence my Ferritin is now a 3 regardless of how or at what time I ate my vitamins...nightime is best cause you don't pee them out as fast.  So now I am up for Iron infussions....Did it to myself.  I stopped following the rules.

I always as the lab to give me a copy of my results and if they won't, which they always do, then ask the doc for a copy.

IT IS IMPORTANT that you have a copy for your self so you can keep track of what is going on in your body.

Good luck

 nine years out and i am so sick, that i now have to shoot myself with b12 everyday, see a hematologist for iron infusions, and today i am told i need a blood transfusion. (which i cant bear to get due to my severe germaphobia..id rather die) Definately keep all of your lab results! I have had several uti's over the last few years. not uncommon i have had this since i was a young child. it was new however to see blood in the urine and not just in the test results. the last two times they have called and said to stop the antibiotics because the test showed no infection. they drew m cbc, iron,b12. almost all values of my cbc are critically low. my iron and b12 as well. I am not on a small diet anymore. i eat normally as if i never had a surgery..except sugar. i went and looked into my medical records and my labs have been abnormal and at very bad levels for at least three years. please keep your records w/ you. doctors are to quick to overlook some abnormal labs due to the surgery. well, what if this is not due to my wls. i dont think any doctor would want to find out that they went with undiagnosed leukemia for three years. but, because i have had wls they just ignore that just about everyone in my extended family has died from cancer at a relatively young age and i have already had a brain tumor myself. Sorry, for the rant. I do not want this to happen to anyone else