Jessyw
Hmph.
Aug 06, 2009
Hello everyone :D
Well I am doing ok, hit a couple bumps in the road. First off I met with my PCP and had my stitches removed and everything is healing up nicely. I have been taking it a Little extra easy without my stitches in don't want anything to happen. I have been getting in my protein and water without a problem. I drink around 70-100 oz of water a day. I don't really try and drink that much, I just do it without thinking lol and when I go and add up how much I have drinking I am surprised lol because before surgery I wasn't that great with drinking water. Now I loveee water! I choose it over apple juice! (I use to LOVEEE apple juice!! o man). I haven't started my vitamins yet because we didn't have the money for them after paying for Brazil and surgery and everything. But my dad is going to help me out with some money for the vitamins. I do go to a native hospital here in Anchorage (since I am native American I get free care) and they were telling me that I could get my vitamins for free from there so were gonna look into that.
Even though I am drinking so much water I am not really urinating that much. I told my PCP about it and so he ran blood tests to make sure my kidneys are working good (I also gained 14 pounds!!!!! we think its water, since we don't understand where all the water I am drinking is going since I am not peeing it out.) So we are trying to figure all that out. It is frustrating but I am dealing with it. The results from my blood work showed that my kidneys are fine (thank goodness!) but since that is ruled out we don't know what else could be to blame. So now my PCP wants me to being in my food log to see what I am eating (he thinks a "change in diet" is doing it. But the only change really is I have cut out most carbs and sugar.)
I also now have a dietitian working with me and my PCP and she knows NOTHING about the DS. I wasn't expecting her to but I did expect her to want to learn but she doesn't really. Its like I can tell her about the DS and just when I think she is finally understanding she says "so its basically the same thing as the RNY." and I say "NO!! IT IS NOT" gahhhh. She wont understand that I don't have to worry about fat and that my main priority is protein and water and to eat very low carb and low sugar. But she keeps saying "but all that fat that you are eating it going to go to your heart and clog your artery's" and I say "No it is not. I have malabsorption! I will only absorb 20% fats and all the rest passes through NOT being absorbed." But she just doesn't want to accept that. Then she will tell my mother that I am not supposed to eat fat and that I need to cut down on the meat I am eating..........AND to make things worse my mom agrees. -sigh- so every time I eat I hear my mom say "your not supposed to be eating fat!!!! Your eating to much meat!!!!" GAH! She says "They are the doctors, THEY are the professionals you CANNOT go against what they say!!!!" and I tell her that they are wrong, and then it gets ugly.
Now I have an appointment coming up where I have to bring my food log, they are going to see how much fat I eat and how much meat and I know they are gonna get on my case and tell me that its not healthy. All because they aren't remembering that I don't have what they do. Man. I'm just gonna deal and go in there and show them and if they freak I will stick to what I know and tell them all about the DS and maybe then they will understand that what I have is a whole different thing then the darn RNY. 
