25% of my excess weight gone for good

Jan 22, 2010

At my Dr.'s appointment on Tuesday I met with Dr. Aranow.  He informed me that I have lost over 25% of my excess body weight!  Wow.....  I am amazed.  How exciting to have a number like that.  He said that when you look at it that way I will probably loose all of my weight in 6mo. instead of the year he originally predicted. 

I then bombarded him with questions which he answer kindly but was obviously annoyed with in the end. 

1)  I asked  Did you do my surgery because I know that your partner closed me up?  He assured me he did and said that my incision was larger than he expected because of the size of my liver. 

2) I then asked why that would be since I followed the diet plan for preop to a tee.  He said that you never really know but not to worry because now it will shrink. 

3) I asked about the types of b12, since a post on here made me concerned about the type I was taking.  He read the bottle and said it was the right type. 

4) I asked yet again about the flinstone vitamins being okay?  He responded of course they are, when these people that are saying other wise do over 1000 surgeries then they can have an opinion.

5) I asked him about the gallbladder medication, because it makes me sick to my stomach? He said that if I can't take it I can't.. Hopefully I am not someone that will get gallstone or if I do they will not be large enough to cause a problem. He went on to say that about 30% of patients get gallstones from loosing weight so quickly. The medication needs to be taken twice a day to have any results.

6) I asked about blood work?    Will have my next full workup in about 2 months.

I asked a few more but I can n ot remember them all right now.  All in all it was a great appointment!

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