Post-WLS Leukemia

[Guest guest]

Anyone been down this particular path? I'm doing basic research at this point...

my blood work and I have completely crashed, my supplement regime, except for

perhaps iron and B-12 is fantastic. Today we addressed the iron and B-12 (Rx

iron, Chromagen Forte, and B-12 shots), and my awesome PCP is pulling his hair

out... and wants to test me for leukemia. It's certainly not a done deal, but as

you can imagine, I'm worried as all get-out. No family history of this cancer,

but no good reason to suspect my RNY is the cause of the problem I'm having

either (I've been checked for GI problems and bleeding, none at all). I've also

got a very recent perfect mammogram, so breast cancer is thankfully off the list

of possibilities.

I'm 35, I've never smoked, I don't drink and hardly ever did, I don't do drugs,

blood pressure's fine, heart is fine, blood work results were basically

acceptable all the way through September except for low ferritin and B-12

levels... and I've never been healthier in my life until I recently started

passing out and falling to the floor. (But as I joked with a WLS friend, at

least with all the calcium citrate I've been taking, my bones are nice and

strong and I won't break anything when I do fall down), and I'm light enough to

be carried somewhere without dying of embarrassment or giving the people who

help me hernias. LOL

Ideas? Wild speculations? Hand-holding? All are welcome. White light, positive

thoughts, etc., are also welcome, in an atheist sort of way. ;-)

Ziobro

Open RNY 09/17/01

310/128/125

http://www.ziobro.us

[Guest guest]

My father had the same thing. His Dr., too, suspected leukemia.

Turns out it was pernicious anemia.

> Anyone been down this particular path? I'm doing basic research at

this point... my blood work and I have completely crashed, my

supplement regime, except for perhaps iron and B-12 is fantastic.

Today we addressed the iron and B-12 (Rx iron, Chromagen Forte, and B-

12 shots), and my awesome PCP is pulling his hair out... and wants to

test me for leukemia. It's certainly not a done deal, but as you can

imagine, I'm worried as all get-out. No family history of this

cancer, but no good reason to suspect my RNY is the cause of the

problem I'm having either (I've been checked for GI problems and

bleeding, none at all). I've also got a very recent perfect

mammogram, so breast cancer is thankfully off the list of

possibilities.

>

> I'm 35, I've never smoked, I don't drink and hardly ever did, I

don't do drugs, blood pressure's fine, heart is fine, blood work

results were basically acceptable all the way through September

except for low ferritin and B-12 levels... and I've never been

healthier in my life until I recently started passing out and falling

to the floor. (But as I joked with a WLS friend, at least with all

the calcium citrate I've been taking, my bones are nice and strong

and I won't break anything when I do fall down), and I'm light enough

to be carried somewhere without dying of embarrassment or giving the

people who help me hernias. LOL

>

> Ideas? Wild speculations? Hand-holding? All are welcome. White

light, positive thoughts, etc., are also welcome, in an atheist sort

of way. ;-)

>

> Ziobro

> Open RNY 09/17/01

> 310/128/125

> http://www.ziobro.us