Guest guest Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 Faith, I hope your rheummy is interested in learning too. Mine was NOT at all. He actually asked me why I would want to do such a thing to myself. I just needed to exercise and eat better and I would loose weight. Of course this man is skinny as a rail!!! My rheummy is totally clueless about vitamin deficiencies or the risk involved with me continuing to take certain meds post op. I refused any really large pills, any meds that were serious gastric irrititents or could cause ulcers in my pouch and any meds that might make me vomit or nauseated. So he was real pissed cause everything he offered I refused. He even tried the you can take this pill and I will also give you prevacid to protect your stomach. Stupid idiot!!!! I have no acid in my pouch so the prevacid would be totally useless and the medication would sit in my pouch eating away at it until it either melted down or got washed out. Did your surgeon give you a list of meds that are off limits? I know I didn't get a formal list but was told basicly ally the NSAIDS, aspirin and any med that was a really large pill that could not be crushed and washed down. I will tell you this now that I am off all meds. My anemia is gone and my labs are normal. No more B vitamin deficiences. My white and red counts are totally normal and my last sed rate was a still above normal but at my all time low since being diagnosised. It was 30. My bonehead rheummy did not do my labs but I had my surgeon run them. He does labs every 3 months on me. I still get mouth,eye and sores in private areas from time to time. So far no doc has given me any explaination other than its a part of autoimmune disease. At least the sores I get now are usually gone within a few days and are not very painful. Before on meds they were so painful. Toni In a message dated 1/4/2005 2:28:37 AM Central Standard Time, writes: Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 06:16:51 +0000 From: fmt2002@... Subject: Re: Digest Number 4452 Thanks Toni for clarifying.. I hope we can chat more soon..interesting to hear you had Vitamin B deficiencies while on Methotrexate... This is why I hope my rheumy is either familiar with weight loss surgery patient needs or is willing to do the research... talk soon Faith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 Faith, I hope your rheummy is interested in learning too. Mine was NOT at all. He actually asked me why I would want to do such a thing to myself. I just needed to exercise and eat better and I would loose weight. Of course this man is skinny as a rail!!! My rheummy is totally clueless about vitamin deficiencies or the risk involved with me continuing to take certain meds post op. I refused any really large pills, any meds that were serious gastric irrititents or could cause ulcers in my pouch and any meds that might make me vomit or nauseated. So he was real pissed cause everything he offered I refused. He even tried the you can take this pill and I will also give you prevacid to protect your stomach. Stupid idiot!!!! I have no acid in my pouch so the prevacid would be totally useless and the medication would sit in my pouch eating away at it until it either melted down or got washed out. Did your surgeon give you a list of meds that are off limits? I know I didn't get a formal list but was told basicly ally the NSAIDS, aspirin and any med that was a really large pill that could not be crushed and washed down. I will tell you this now that I am off all meds. My anemia is gone and my labs are normal. No more B vitamin deficiences. My white and red counts are totally normal and my last sed rate was a still above normal but at my all time low since being diagnosised. It was 30. My bonehead rheummy did not do my labs but I had my surgeon run them. He does labs every 3 months on me. I still get mouth,eye and sores in private areas from time to time. So far no doc has given me any explaination other than its a part of autoimmune disease. At least the sores I get now are usually gone within a few days and are not very painful. Before on meds they were so painful. Toni In a message dated 1/4/2005 2:28:37 AM Central Standard Time, writes: Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 06:16:51 +0000 From: fmt2002@... Subject: Re: Digest Number 4452 Thanks Toni for clarifying.. I hope we can chat more soon..interesting to hear you had Vitamin B deficiencies while on Methotrexate... This is why I hope my rheumy is either familiar with weight loss surgery patient needs or is willing to do the research... talk soon Faith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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