gramamarc

I was looking on: http://www.wlscenter.com/ and saw some pills they sell to control internal body order called DEVROM. Does anyone know anything about that??
Marcia

Blueyz

I think those are for the duodenal switch patients. When I went to a seminar at Alvarado, they said people who have the DS often smell like bowel movements due to the extreme malabsorption. They don't even perform the DS at many places anymore. As far as I know with the GB Roux en Y, there isn't a problem with this...at least I know that from my own experience.

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Blueyz
Open 7/14/04 w/Dr. Callery 4 years out
239/103/125 below Goal fluctuating between 108-115
BMI 18.8~Dr. C is ok with my weight...yeah

Official Scale Whore # 27 (Recovered..I threw mine out!!)

gramamarc

Thanks Dale!!

Christina

You will go through a period in the beginning called Ketosis where you do have some foul body odor.. but there is not much you can do for it. Your breath will stink (keep sugar free mints with ya) your urine sometimes stinks, and your bowel movements.. I even had to switch deoderants to the Mitchum because I couldn't get my armpit odor under control even showering twice daily .. so just so you know it is common but it doesn't last long.. just when you are seriously burning up fat.. that's all.. you get over it quickly and your family is thankful for that..

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Christina
Open RNY 03/31/2004
274/128/137 (131 Per Dr. C)
BMI: 47 / 22

"There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self." - Ernest Miller Hemingway

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford

msterry

Marcia,

I'm so glad you asked that question. I was wondering the same thing and now I know. By the way, my chart is still in dictation and I'm getting very impatient and edgy since I don't know one way or the other. I hope I know something very soon.

Terry[color=RoyalBlue]

JohnsWife4Life

I didn't have any problems there at all. I think I have perspired maybe three times since surgery. I couldn't get warm for six months after surgery. I used to be hot at work all night long and now sometimes I think I will freeze to death before morning shift arrives.

Those pills I hear work wonders. Lactose intolerant people sometimes use this. It is an internal body deoderant. Christina makes it sound awful. I am sorry she had to go through that. If I had to endure that I would certainly have used that. I think it is also a breath deoderant as well, some people take it for chronic halitosis.

Hugs,

Traci

Gatzby

The pills sound a lot better than swallowing a stick of Right Guard.

You'd have to do the Macarena to click it up!

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-Rob
Not covered by insurance. How nice, they will pay for the symptoms...but not the cure for my disease.

Anne

Do you need a prescription for that? And is it alright for us post-op people to use? If needed?

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Anne

Open 03/23/05, Dr. Callery
259/130(UNDER MY GOAL! )/150 (per me)/134(per Kelly )
Start BMI 45?/23.9

JohnsWife4Life

LMFAO!

Rob, I think if you did the hula hump it might click up a notch?

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Traci

Gatzby

I thought the Hula was to put the lid back on?

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-Rob
Not covered by insurance. How nice, they will pay for the symptoms...but not the cure for my disease.