Roll call for all 3 years out or more! - Page 4 - ThinnerTimes - Gastric Bypass Forum, Lap Band Forum, and Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Forum

rainrain · 08-16-2009, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by angelinfl

I have my blood work checked and have had to getferroycette infusions because of anemia attributable to gastric bypass surgery. I passed out one day and they found out my hemoglobin was 7 and i got transfusion. I am carefully watched because I have had perionitnitis following a botched tummy tuck as well as colon cancer.

I'm glad to be alive and am watched carefuly.

After several years of anemia I can finally say I have it under control. Please have your copper checked. Mine was low and dropping , but one I started supplementation 2 copper pills a day and Liquid Life Multi vitamin, my copper and my iron raised, with out even getting infusions. It took about 6 months or more, but it worked!!

I feel great fort he first time in a long time.

Phoenixfire · 08-16-2009, 09:00 PM

Wow Angel, you've been a real trooper there. Glad that you're on top of the testing and results are good now. I used to think it was just us old-timers that didn't learn about all the supplements we needed. Now I know that's not true. There are doctors who still today are telling patients to take lame-ass vitamins and Tums.

Unbelieveable!

goshera1 · 08-18-2009, 01:39 PM

Hanging in there.... by a thread!!!
Stuck here for A YEAR... and not at goal....
But still Hanging....... and still working on it.
I will try to upload a current picture....Hmmm if I can figure this out!
me my daughter and my neice.

sdgrrl · 08-19-2009, 07:01 AM

Hey Bridget!
Thanks for starting this thread. It's cool to see old faces and find out if they have any of the post op problems that some of us endure. Almost like an Alumni Book! I am 3 years 10 months out, 2 years 10 months out from the health crisis that bought me 2 big emergency surgeries, a 4 unit GI bleed, and a blood transfusion.

While I am wonderfully pleased that so many of us are doing so well, there is a coterie of folks whose bodies just don't like what we've done. I posted a thread detailing some of the issues I have had. In no particular order, these are some of the problems I now have:

2 surgeries 5 hours each (emergency, with 3 days in between)
4 unit GI Bleed
blood transfusion
6 kidney stones
coppers deficiency in the blood
low protein (due to the copper issue)
low iron
anemia
4 bowel obstructions
diminished memory
diminished thought capacity
greatly diminished endurance
increased depression (who wouldn't?)
loss of muscle mass
severe osteporosis
joint pain
increased muscle spasms

I'm sure there are more problems that I am forgetting, but I think I may have mentioned a memory problem.

I am sorry to be the 'Negative Nellie' but I didn't get a ticket to the 'I feel wonderful, better than ever in my life' cruise.

I will say that I am actually diggin' on being so teeny tiny, I like not being ridiculed about my weight, and wearing small sizes, but that's not worth my life!

If I'm still here next year I look forward to reading about all those 4 years out and your continued success!

Phoenixfire · 08-19-2009, 11:01 PM

I'm glad that you, Donna, and others come here on this thread and post the good, bad and ugly. It certainly is nowhere near puppies and rainbows and flowers at this stage!

It's hard to have so few here that are long-term. I guess it's the nature of this process, in that people have surgery, lose weight and disappear needing no support. Or do all those things and be too ashamed to post their struggles.

Anyway, I'm going to stick around here, sometimes more sometimes less, because this surgery doesn't DEFINE who I am, but it is forever PART of who I am. ESPECIALLY when I have health crises due to weight loss surgery!

Donna I want you posting on the 4 year thread. AND BEYOND!

ConstructionChick · 09-14-2009, 08:31 PM

I'll be 2 years out on the 21st of this month. I'm stuck at a 136lb loss (down to 190 from 326) but I feel better than I ever thought possible. It's a journey everyday and I still struggle with doing what I'm supposed to. When I slip up, I realize it's just that- a slip up- not a be all , end all disaster. It's nice to hear from those of you who are farther out that are struggling too.

ConstructionChick · 09-14-2009, 08:34 PM

I guess I should have mentioned that I too, just had a bowel obstruction fixed. Emergency surgery resulting in 8 days in the hospital. While my GBS was done laparoscopically, they couldn't fix the obstruction that way so I now have a scar running from just below my sternum to my belly button. Even with that, I'd still do the GBS again in a heartbeat.