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Vitamin difficient

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Just yesterday I responded to a blog about someone who was potassium difficient with a great website with potassium rich foods. Ironically, today I go to the doctor and since I hadn't had a call about my labs from a month ago I asked. Turns out the lab never sent them over. My motto...no news is not good news, it just means they haven't gotten the results and I need to call about it. So she calls me back and said she knows why my joints and bones have been hurting. See I just thought it was because I lost weight and the tendons were stretching in a new direction, hence the pain. WRONG!!

Anyway, the labs showed I am potassium and vitamin D difficient. The vitamin D is the worst. My doc said they have never seen it that low in many many years. We should be at "30" and mine was "8". So now I have to take presciption meds for both. The potassium pill is the size of a horse pill. Guess I am crushing that one and the vitamin D is 50,000 IU and is a tiny little thing. Crazy!

Anyway, make sure you get your vitamin levels checked.

Low potassium leaves you achy, tired and dizzy. Low vitamin D causes bone loss, joint pain. Explains a lot. She said I should be feeling spectacular soon after starting the meds. I will let everyone know.

Now on to my visit. I lost 8.5 lbs in 3 weeks. I felt so guilty on vacation because I was eating a small (salad)size plate of food at each meal. I wasn't hungry for 5-6 hours after but I thought I was overeating and in desperate need of a fill. Turns out that is exactly how I should be eating and feeling. I am in the green zone and didn't even realize it. The green zone is not eating tiny amount of food and being satisfied. It is eating 1250 cals a day in the way of salad size plates of food and not being hungry for at least 4 hours. I was so glad to find out I need to eat more. She said "see you ate more food and lost more weight in 3 weeks." AND I am bloated if you know what I mean and that usually means weight gain for at least a week. I was thinking all wrong about my food intake. I was so happy. I go back in a month to see how this stage is going. Wish me luck!

Oh my total loss now is 45.5 lbs.

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FYI, check on the potassium, a lot of them are slow release and shouldn't be crushed....yours may be fine but just wanted to warn ya! Congrats on the loss too!!

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Thanks I will check that. My lapband doc prescribed it and it is the size of a small country and very chalky. There is NO WAY that will go through my band. Thanks for the heads up.

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thanks for all the information!! I had the gastric sleeve done and for about 3 wks my shoulder joints and my hip joints felt so painful almost like they were bruised. I go on the first to have all my blood work done and I am taking Calcium with D in it. But a deficiency may have been what was causing the pain. Congrats on your recovery and good luck on continued weight loss......

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that was very good info, I also have had the problem with my joints, I was thinking i was getting arthrites at a very young age or something, when I go in in a week im going to have them check my vitamin levels, 45.5... thats great, when did you get banded

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I was banded on May 12th. I had gone to my reg doctor because of the severe knee pain that was so bad I could barely walk. She took xrays and said my knee had no cartilage on one side and that was arthritis. Which is still true but I think the deficiency is the real cause of the severe pain. I will update on my blog after a week on my progress.

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