5 years post op & I’m scared

[RoseGoldHeart 5]

Hi everyone,

I just feel the need to vent and maybe you won’t be so hard on me. I’ll take all the advice you got. I am 5 years post op Vertical Gastric Sleeve (lost over 110 pounds, kept it off) but have come across a dilemma. A lot of it is my fault. During this time period I had not been taking my Vitamins not until the beginning of this year (Chewable 4 times a day.) The excuse for this was because I couldn’t down so many pills, but after doing research there are alternatives I KNOW THIS NOW. Towards the end of the year, I started having Gallstone Attacks. They were so severe, that I ended up getting my entire Gallbladder removed (last week). I’m recovering well, just a bit sore.

From what one of the nurses told me before the surgery that my BMI is at 50 and I have fatty liver. For me, I feel like, I’m sabotaging myself and I want to make things right.

Am I the only one that has gone through this? And if so, how did you recover or are now recovering?

Love,

RoseGoldHeart

Edited January 14, 2020 by RoseGoldHeart
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[GreenTealael 25,336]

Hi RoseGoldHeart,

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[FluffyChix 17,415]

34 minutes ago, RoseGoldHeart said:

Hi everyone,

I just feel the need to vent and maybe you won’t be so hard on me. I’ll take all the advice you got. I am 5 years post op Vertical Gastric Sleeve (lost over 110 pounds, kept it off) but have come across a dilemma. A lot of it is my fault. During this time period I had not been taking my Vitamins not until the beginning of this year (Chewable 4 times a day.) The excuse for this was because I couldn’t down so many pills, but after doing research there are alternatives I KNOW THIS NOW. Towards the end of the year, I started having Gallstone Attacks. They were so severe, that I ended up getting my entire Gallbladder removed (last week). I’m recovering well, just a bit sore.

From what one of the nurses told me before the surgery that my BMI is at 50 and I have fatty liver. For me, I feel like, I’m sabotaging myself and I want to make things right.

Am I the only one that has gone through this? And if so, how did you recover or are now recovering?

Love,

RoseGoldHeart

So what you are saying is that at 5 years, you've maintained your 110lb loss, but are presently a BMI50? And you just had you GB out. And you have not been taking Vitamins until just this year. Right?

First off, congrats on losing 110lbs!

Second, call your surgeon's office and schedule an appointment to evaluate you. You need a full work-up for vitamin/mineral deficiencies. And he/she needs to evaluate what happened to keep you from fully losing to a healthy BMI level (BMI 50 as you know in your heart isn't very healthy and still conveys a lot of health and mortality risk hon.) Do you have Fatty Liver, or NASH?

Do you still have restriction? Do you eat around your tool?

If it was me, I'd want to get a counselor to start doing the head work, want to get an RD to plan a route of attack that I could live with, and want to pursue the subject of a second surgery to a DS from the VSG (it is the malabsorptive side of a VSG surgery).

Also, I have a thread in the main lobby called Doing the Headwork. Why not go check it out?!! Hugs and hope that helps!

[RoseGoldHeart 5]

FluffyChix,

Thank you so much.

Yes, my Sleeve still works and gets restriction to food. As far as the fatty liver, it is Non-Alcoholic.

I know without a doubt that I have a Vitamin deficiency, and wanted to keep taking my Vitamins until I can schedule an appointment to meet with the Doc. I just am not sure how long I should wait??

At the present time, I'm taking the optisource Post Bariatric Surgery chewable tablets (& I absolutely hate them), but I force myself. I'm looking to make the switch to perhaps a 1 a day capsule (BariatricPal 1 a day Multi-vitamin).

[Justoperated 141]

I am five years post op too. I took Vitamins only for first year. I have checked my levels every 6 months or so and they are normal. I do take vitamins but not regularly.
Haven’t had gallstones but I guess it because I did not loose that much.

[FluffyChix 17,415]

On 1/14/2020 at 7:13 PM, RoseGoldHeart said:

FluffyChix,

Thank you so much.

Yes, my Sleeve still works and gets restriction to food. As far as the fatty liver, it is Non-Alcoholic.

I know without a doubt that I have a Vitamin deficiency, and wanted to keep taking my Vitamins until I can schedule an appointment to meet with the Doc. I just am not sure how long I should wait??

At the present time, I'm taking the optisource Post Bariatric Surgery chewable tablets (& I absolutely hate them), but I force myself. I'm looking to make the switch to perhaps a 1 a day capsule (BariatricPal 1 a day Multi-vitamin).

If it were me, I'd call today and schedule "next available" appointment. Maybe tell them a little bit about what's going on? Don't artificially try to bring your levels up. Let them see the baseline. Maybe it's not so bad? Plus you don't want to do anything to hurt your liver more. Go get checked out hon!