Reminder about calcium
Kelly
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www.surgicalreview.org/COEPrograms/asmbs/hospitalprovisional .aspx
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Hospitals should have, or be in the process of acquiring, the equipment and instruments appropriate for the care of bariatric surgery patients.
A excellent criteria, but the correct supplements also need to be stressed, and no more of this Flintstone, calcium oyster, carbonate ect.... crap.
I'm sorry! I just can't take anymore
~ whoops, nurse uh... we don't seem to have "acquired" the correct scalpel to finish this patients surgery..... but she can use the toilet when she wakes up.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
I believe - but could be wrong - that their recommendations should be similar to those for lap banders, with added sublingual B12 (because they make less intrinsic factor, just like RNY folks do).
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
"take a flinstones, and get your iron and calcium....bye".
Am i pissed? you bet. I have learned more on this board from the wonderful members than ANY DOCTOR ever could and has told me.
anemia, bone loss, high blood pressure, malnutrition.....boy, wonder why.
i am now taking MY health into MY own hands...and on the path to better days :-)
RNY with Silastic Ring: 7/3/03~Dr. Alan Newhoff, Phoenix, AZ
Total Weight Loss: #200
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Even if you'd been taking no calcium at all, you would not have hurt your bones in just two months.
But here's what you need to know about calcium in your labs:
the calcium level in our blood really tells us very little about our calcium intake/absorption.
See, if the calcium level in our blood drops too low, our muscles cannot contract. The heart is a muscle and if it cannot contract, as in beat, we drop dead. So if we don't take in enough calcium or don't absorb the calcium we take in for some reason (like if our vitamin D level is too low), our bodies produce extra parathyroid hormone, which sucks calcium out of our bones to keep that level in our blood good. As long as you have bones and teeth to suck calcium out of, that calcium level in your blood will likely be OK.
If it drops low, it may mean you have problems with your endocrine system or other potentially serious health problems, but it doesn't mean you aren't getting enough calcium.
For lab results that tell you about calcium, what you want to know is your D level and PTH. If the D is below 80, that means you won't absorb calcium well, no matter how much you take. Doesn't mean you won't absorb any, you will. But maybe not enough and you will be at increased risk for osteoporosis as well as other unpleasant things.
If the PTH is on the high side (even in the normal range, just on the high side), it suggests you are indeed leaching calcium out of your bones.
At one year out, you should get a bone density scan to see the true state of your bones. However, you don’t want to wait ‘til then to at least try to get enough calcium and keep your vitamin D level above 80. If you get a bone density scan and find out you’ve suffered bone loss, you’re already in trouble.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
