Re: UPDATE - Cindy Lou

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I am so sorry to hear that it is serious. I have now you make the third,

people I know who have developed life threatening things crop up after there

gatric bypass! One my best friends sister, also close to, we spent with her

after the surgery 2 yrs ago, she ran into trouble right away, when we went to

pick her up after being discharged we could not believe the Dr. had let her go,

just walking into the room we knew she was in no shape to be going home and

thank god we were there. We got her home and with in a 2 hr period!, She is a RN

and now when I talk to her I still ask her what was she thinking when she could

not breathe, get up out of the bed as they were shoving her out to go home, and

why did she not speak up? She still is having digestive problems and throwing

up almost everytime she eats anything. The other aquaintance has some weird

thing which has affected her fingers and toes, they are getting no circulation,

she has to wear mittens all the time, her

skin is peeling off in the areas, and they are very painfull that they have her

on percocet, no dr. has been able to put a name or reason to it, except it is

linked to the surgery. What is going on with these? I hope you recover from

this quickly as you must be in discomfort! Now that you mention these twitches

and things though has alerted me to have my Dr. run a test on me, as I also can

deplete my calcium because I have had my thyroid and para thyroids completly

removed and the last couple months I have been having these horribly and

shrugged it off to another FM symptom or change of life time. I was told I

needed to take calcium, and exspecially since for some reason I don't take in

much from other sources. I just hate swallowing those big horse pills and have

a whole supply of them right in front of me daily, with vit D in them. I think

to since I don't eat all day, I have learned you will quickly vomit taking on a

empty stomach! I hope will hope for you to

get fixed up with that quickly.

Sharon

Lou <cindylouwho777@...> wrote: Hi all..

First of all, thank you to all who emailed me in support and prayer. It

helped a lot.

Now, here is the deal.. My calcium is life threateningly low. Below 5!

They know that my having had Gastric Bypass surgery can be part of the cause

but not normally THIS low. I am to TRY to relax - seizures are a

possibility - and if that occurs to go immediately to the ER. He asked me

if I had any twitching/spasms and I told him I did but I thought it was just

a side effect of meds. My face twitches all the time.

I am on a high dose of calcium, they are going to run more blood tests to

try to see WHY my calcium is so low, and check me in 2 weeks again. I am

going through a LOT of stress right now, in financial trouble (nearly

homeless) on welfare and food stamps, and I am supposed to RELAX and NOT

WORRY! I have to laugh. I did get ONE good call. Local friends who are

Masons found out about my husband dying and my problems and want to help me

a little with funds. Anything is a blessing.

Thank you all again for the prayers and support. Keep it up. I will let

you know how I am doing.

In Friendship,

Lou

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<<I am so sorry to hear that it is serious. I have now you make the third,

people I know who have developed life threatening things crop up after there

gatric bypass! >>

In all of my dealings with gastric bypass patients (I used to run a support

group) I have never heard of the skin peeling/hand thing happening to

anyone. Yes, digestive and malabsorbtion problems. But I have to say that

if I had NOT had the gastric bypass 9 years ago I would be dead now. I

weighed 530 lbs. when I had it done, and now am 199. Yes, I have problems,

but I would have a lot more had I not lost the weight - IF I even lived this

long.

Glad you mentioned Vit. D. The doctor told me to take that too, and I

forgot (oops!) so I am on my way to do that. Yes, the calcium pills are

HUGE and with my teeny tummy it is not pleasant. My pills (between vit. D,

calcium, Darvocet, Lyrica and Cymbalta) are a meal in themselves!

Thanks for the concern and email.

Blessings,

Lou

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There are other forms of calcium you can use. I use powdered Calcium Citrate

and also chewable. Bariatric Advantage makes a delicious cinnamon chewable

Calcium Citrate. I think they also come in chocolate.

And, , the PTH test should be done on you, like was suggested. Your

parathyroid will kick in when calcium is low in your blood, in order to pull

calcium from your bones. I believe in your case you already have

osteoporosis, don't you? So there probably isn't a lot of calcium that can

be pulled from them, so you are dropping way too low in your bloodstream.

How is your Vit D level? If that is low, then no matter how much calcium you

take, you won't be able to absorb it. I have to take 50000IU per day of dry

D now. That is a humongous amount, but some of us (gastric bypass patients)

need 100000-200000Iu per day to get the D levels to even mid-range.

Chrissie

Re: [ ] UPDATE - Lou

I am so sorry to hear that it is serious. I have now you make the

third, people I know who have developed life threatening things crop up

after there gatric bypass! One my best friends sister, also close to, we

spent with her after the surgery 2 yrs ago, she ran into trouble right away,

when we went to pick her up after being discharged we could not believe the

Dr. had let her go, just walking into the room we knew she was in no shape

to be going home and thank god we were there. We got her home and with in a

2 hr period!, She is a RN and now when I talk to her I still ask her what

was she thinking when she could not breathe, get up out of the bed as they

were shoving her out to go home, and why did she not speak up? She still is

having digestive problems and throwing up almost everytime she eats

anything. The other aquaintance has some weird thing which has affected her

fingers and toes, they are getting no circulation, she has to wear mittens

all the time, her

skin is peeling off in the areas, and they are very painfull that they have

her on percocet, no dr. has been able to put a name or reason to it, except

it is linked to the surgery. What is going on with these? I hope you

recover from this quickly as you must be in discomfort! Now that you

mention these twitches and things though has alerted me to have my Dr. run a

test on me, as I also can deplete my calcium because I have had my thyroid

and para thyroids completly removed and the last couple months I have been

having these horribly and shrugged it off to another FM symptom or change of

life time. I was told I needed to take calcium, and exspecially since for

some reason I don't take in much from other sources. I just hate swallowing

those big horse pills and have a whole supply of them right in front of me

daily, with vit D in them. I think to since I don't eat all day, I have

learned you will quickly vomit taking on a empty stomach! I hope will hope

for you to

get fixed up with that quickly.

Sharon

Lou <cindylouwho777@...> wrote: Hi all..

First of all, thank you to all who emailed me in support and prayer. It

helped a lot.

Now, here is the deal.. My calcium is life threateningly low. Below 5!

They know that my having had Gastric Bypass surgery can be part of the cause

but not normally THIS low. I am to TRY to relax - seizures are a

possibility - and if that occurs to go immediately to the ER. He asked me

if I had any twitching/spasms and I told him I did but I thought it was just

a side effect of meds. My face twitches all the time.

I am on a high dose of calcium, they are going to run more blood tests to

try to see WHY my calcium is so low, and check me in 2 weeks again. I am

going through a LOT of stress right now, in financial trouble (nearly

homeless) on welfare and food stamps, and I am supposed to RELAX and NOT

WORRY! I have to laugh. I did get ONE good call. Local friends who are

Masons found out about my husband dying and my problems and want to help me

a little with funds. Anything is a blessing.

Thank you all again for the prayers and support. Keep it up. I will let

you know how I am doing.

In Friendship,

Lou

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

(\__/)

(='.'=) " I used to be inept but, with practice, I became ept. "

( " )_( " )

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

[Guest guest]

Glad you mentioned Vit. D. The doctor told me to take that too, and I

forgot (oops!) so I am on my way to do that. Yes, the calcium pills are

HUGE and with my teeny tummy it is not pleasant. My pills (between vit. D,

calcium, Darvocet, Lyrica and Cymbalta) are a meal in themselves!

Just for information, I just found out myself not to long ago, there is a

liquid calcium, I got it at vitamin world here, its not the best tasting stuff

and I drink milk after, seems to help, but it sure is a lot nicer than taking

another pill and much easier, just thought I would share

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