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I got my labs back today from my checkup!



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I had my yearly checkup last week and everything looked good in the office, but I didn't get my labs back til today and I am please to announce I do not have diabetes, high chloresterol, high triglycerides or any of that bad stuff! I could dance for joy! My only "problems" if you can call them that, is that my Iron is a little low and my B12 is a lot high. LOL so I have a message in to my NUT and waiting to see what she wants to do with that. But I am soooo excited to not have diabetes because my parents, my living siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, and my grandparents when they were all alive had diabetes and I had gestational diabetes in my last pregnancy, so to walk out today with perfect health and perfect numbers was AMAZING! I am the first one in my family to almost reach 40(still got 9 more months) without having diabetes!!! It was the NSV of all NSV's! This surgery really has made my life better!

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That's completely fantastic. What a feeling!

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Congratulations on your results. About a year post-op, my blood work showed I was also low on Iron. As a result I did 2 things.

I moved all my Iron supplements to the end of the day just before bedtime. I had to separate Calcium from iron time wise. Since milk contains Calcium and since I did drink milk in addition to my calcium tablets, it was difficult to make this separation, unless I scheduled it as the last supplements of the day.

I was told by my nutricianist to add a 65 mg iron tablet to my regiment. The iron had to be ferrous sulfate.

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I am the first one in my family to almost reach 40(still got 9 more months) without having diabetes!!! It was the NSV of all NSV's! This surgery really has made my life better!

Wow! That quote should be on a WLS brochure somewhere.

Monster congrats to you, @@Sajijoma !

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That is FABULOUS! diabetes was my #1 reason for the surgery!

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That does it!!

​Now it is official!!!

YOU ROCK!!!!! :)

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@@Sajijoma Congratulations! THis is fantastic!!!

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Great news! Congratulations!

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@@Sajijoma, that's absolutely wonderful!

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Congratulations on your results. About a year post-op, my blood work showed I was also low on Iron. As a result I did 2 things.

I moved all my Iron supplements to the end of the day just before bedtime. I had to separate Calcium from iron time wise. Since milk contains Calcium and since I did drink milk in addition to my calcium tablets, it was difficult to make this separation, unless I scheduled it as the last supplements of the day.

I was told by my nutricianist to add a 65 mg iron tablet to my regiment. The iron had to be ferrous sulfate.

I've been iron deficient most of my life. I'm actually surprised that I went UP from my last check to being just borderline deficient this time.

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Thanks everyone! It really is an overwhelmingly good feeling to know that this surgery and this change in my life has already saved me from things that to this point I assumed were inevitable, like getting diabetes.

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