Hey stranger! How the hell have you been? We've missed you!

I dislike saying this, but your vitamin regimen is really crappy. Flintstones are missing a LOT of things we need. Things you haven't been getting AT ALL. please start complete, ADULT vitamins.

All of the commonly available calcium chews are calcium carbonate or tricalcium phosphate. If that's what you've been taking, you haven't absorbed much of it, at all. And even if those calcium chews were calcium citrate, you should be getting three or more doses a day, not 2.

Almost everyone needs a bunch more B12 and D3 as well, more than you've been getting.

Please, please, get COMPLETE labs run as soon as possible. A complete set of vitamins and minerals is going to be about 15 vials of blood. Yes, 15. If they take less, they aren't checking a lot of things, like vitamin K, copper, selenium, etc. Don't take no for an answer. And don't take their word for it that your levels are ok. Get the printout. You will need it in the future.

You also need a bone density scan. The calcium result in your labwork tells you absolutely nothing about your bone health. Only a very quick and simple bone density, or DEXA scan can do that.

Please follow up on all this. At 11 years out, you can have serious, serious deficiencies, some of which can cause permanent health issues.

There is a good list of labs you can print and give your doc on the following link. Scoll down and look for the posts by Andrea and Vitalady.

http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/rny/4152810/Pam-T-or-Vital adyLa/

I don't know anything about pancreatitis, but it sounds similar to gall bladder attacks. Do you still have your gall bladder?

Nice work. Feels great, doesn't it?

Yes! If I had a nickel for every person that says they wish they had WLS years earlier, I'd be a billionaire.

Right on schedule! Relax. It will all grow back.

Some people freak out, and start trying all kinds of stuff. When their hair grows back, which it will regardless, they swear it was because of whatever product they were using. It's not. It's just time.

Most people think the gleam in my eye is most elusive.

Very nice! 

These Celebrate are delicious, and much less expensive than the starbust soft type. Orange Burst is great.

I can guarantee that some of the protein powders that people tell you are the best tasting thing ever will taste like total crap to you. Tastes vary so much. And quite often, something that tastes great right now, will taste crappy after surgery.

Your best bet is to get sample packs of a wide variety of powders, so you have them at hand. Don't go buying a big bucket of protein until you're sure.

It's probably a big part of it. Try switching to carbonyl iron. It can't hurt.

Every fifty pounds, you should get a couple of hookers.

We absorb ferrous fumarate and the other ferrous salts just fine. The bigger issue is, they all cause pretty bad constipation or stomach upset.

A couple of the other iron formulations don't constipate or upset stomachs. The one that is most commonly available and inexpensive is carbonyl iron. Most use Sundown Perfect Iron brand. The pills are really tiny, and dissolve quickly, and you'll probably need to take at least a few at a time.