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I just heard from a friend that she had gotten new news about a side effect from a gastric bypass she had about three years ago which has come back to haunt her.
She, of course, had gotten the surgery done from a very well thought of specialist who does these on a very regular basis (about three a week). After all the weight loss, and resulting skin surgeries and bust re- augmentation (I call them that 'cause they usually shrink and patients routinely must get a lift and augmentation to get them to look about the way they did before they had surgery in the first place)--after all this then she heard the bad news.....
It seems that when the stomach parts are cut out and re-connected back together, in some cases the part which is cut out is a necessary part for absorbing iron. Now, since she now can't take pills orally, since she had the iron-absorbing section cut out, she must now go into the doctors office to get infusions so her iron levels don't plummet to low values (I think she said something like a '3' or '4' whatever that means--her energy levels swing to where she sleeps alot if she can't get to the doctors soon enough or, when she does feel good--it's never really like she used to feel before she had the operation in the first place.
I have mixed feelings about these ops in the first place, and especially if its for "vanity" rather than health concerns anyway. Doctors always sing the song about how "bad" it is to be overweight, but everyone seems to be different in how thier bodies react to being big vs. small, and many times being big is not really bad at all.
Anyway, my point is that patients have said that doctors don't have a test to find out if the parts that they want to cut out are the necessary ones which absorb vitamins/iron, etc. So it seems like a crapshoot, rather than science. Sounds like a high risk and price to pay anyway. She did this to lower her blood pressure (which she did'nt by much) and even with the plastic surgery which she endured, she still has skin issues which when they sewed her back together, she says the skin "sits" differently (read unnaturally) and she is not totally pleased with the result.
Just thought I'd put in my 2 cents, as some people say they do OK with this, but I want to throw out this warning to those who want to go through GB that this scenerio can easily happen and iron infusions can become a part of (the rest) of your life.
She, of course, had gotten the surgery done from a very well thought of specialist who does these on a very regular basis (about three a week). After all the weight loss, and resulting skin surgeries and bust re- augmentation (I call them that 'cause they usually shrink and patients routinely must get a lift and augmentation to get them to look about the way they did before they had surgery in the first place)--after all this then she heard the bad news.....
It seems that when the stomach parts are cut out and re-connected back together, in some cases the part which is cut out is a necessary part for absorbing iron. Now, since she now can't take pills orally, since she had the iron-absorbing section cut out, she must now go into the doctors office to get infusions so her iron levels don't plummet to low values (I think she said something like a '3' or '4' whatever that means--her energy levels swing to where she sleeps alot if she can't get to the doctors soon enough or, when she does feel good--it's never really like she used to feel before she had the operation in the first place.
I have mixed feelings about these ops in the first place, and especially if its for "vanity" rather than health concerns anyway. Doctors always sing the song about how "bad" it is to be overweight, but everyone seems to be different in how thier bodies react to being big vs. small, and many times being big is not really bad at all.
Anyway, my point is that patients have said that doctors don't have a test to find out if the parts that they want to cut out are the necessary ones which absorb vitamins/iron, etc. So it seems like a crapshoot, rather than science. Sounds like a high risk and price to pay anyway. She did this to lower her blood pressure (which she did'nt by much) and even with the plastic surgery which she endured, she still has skin issues which when they sewed her back together, she says the skin "sits" differently (read unnaturally) and she is not totally pleased with the result.
Just thought I'd put in my 2 cents, as some people say they do OK with this, but I want to throw out this warning to those who want to go through GB that this scenerio can easily happen and iron infusions can become a part of (the rest) of your life.
