Anyone have anemia and potassium deficiency prior to RNY??

has anyone had anemia and or potasium deficency prior to having RNY if so what did your Dr say about it and how do u deal with it??

Thank you
Shelley Belley

Was and still am anemic, my dr has taken me off iron pills and I now get an iron shot once a week and this is helping, I find out  my blood work next week  and if needed he will up my iron injections....hope this helps

 I was slightly snemic before surgery. I took iron pills then and take them now.

I never had problems with potasium until after surgery. Every now and then I have to take postasium pills to bring it up. 

did u have to get liquid form of iron or crush them??

 I bought Bariatric Chewable Iron gummys. They were ok. Then I had strictures and was vomiting a lot. After having vomited them up, just the smell would cause me to vomit. So then I just started crushing up my iron pills. 

I was anemic before surgery and again after surgery. My issue is gynecological, so everyone is hopeful that losing the weight will solve the problem. I suppose we'll find out in August, lol... Meanwhile, before surgery, I took a lot of iron pills to solve the problem. Since surgery, after trying every type of iron I could get my hands on, I have had success with Iron Infusions. Four treatments have gotten my numbers up into the normal range. :D

I have not ever had a problem with potassium, so I've got nothing on that one. I will say that my surgery was postponed once because of iron deficient anemia and almost again, but I barely was above the number I needed for surgery (which was a hemoglobin of 10). My surgeon would not do my surgery without my hemoglobin being at least 10.

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

My doc won't do surgery on a patient who's anemic. Those that are have to get iron infusions or go on iron therapy daily to up their levels before surgery.
Jen 9 yrs post op

My potassium was really low before surgery and still runs low. I had to have potassium through an IV for a few days and now take potassium pills everyday.

I had both pre-op to the point of going into Ventrical Tachycardia (or Sudden Cardiac Death Syndrome). Same thing post op, with the same results - another episode of V-Tach, this time last August. I am very, very fortunate to be alive as the survival rate for this particular arrythmia is almost nil, especially having had it happen twice.

They watch me like a hawk now. I still have, and will probably always struggle with, pernicious anemia. My potassium goes out of whack very quickly so I have to be vigilant about my labs. I get iron infusions, take daily iron, and get IV potassium or take potassium pills if/when needed.

Are you asking because you have these issues as well?

I don't have issues s bad as yours but I do have very low iron im severly anemic and I have low potassium and right now im just on it once a day but if I go without taking it I get real weak and sicker and sicker Im just afraid the Dr won't let me have the RNY b/c of this and I will have to get the Lap Band

Shelley Belley