Today I had an unexpected and surprisingly satisfying NSV. I noticed that my belly button shrank. It's about 50% shallower than it used to be! Who knew I would be so pleased about less depth to my belly button? 😆
TisTrue, you have no idea how encouraging this is to me. I am a HUGE veggie lover, and it is one thing I've been scared about not being able to eat in the future. My goal is to be a vegan, but for now I am eating animal Protein. I really hope in the future I'll be able to reach my goal. I gave up red meat in 2009 and I mostly eat fish now (well, before surgery) . A great majority of what I cook is meatless, and luckily, my husband will eat almost anything and enjoys all the meatless stuff. I was self pay for my surgery because it's excluded on our insurance, and when I met my surgeon he told me about Loop DS. He told me it has a lower chance of weight regain and was a great surgery for diabetics. I luckily did not have diabetes, but it runs heavily in my family, and it's a miracle I didn't, because my mom had it at 47. I just turned 49. I do have fatty liver disease and scarring, which is what made me decide I needed to do this. Also, my starting BMI was 69. I was 393 pounds and I'm 5'3", and the surgeon said this surgery would be a good fit. I do have GERD, which the RNY is better for, and I did agonize over that, but since I am self pay I only get one shot at this, so I wanted the surgery that I had the best chance of success with. I was willing to risk worsening GERD. It is well controlled with Nexium. So far I'm doing well and glad I chose this surgery. Thank you so much for sharing your experience!
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Hello, everyone! I had the Loop Duodenal Switch surgery 14 months ago on January 23, 2020. At my heaviest I was 389 pounds, but was 321 on the day of my surgery. I am currently 191 pounds and only 11 pounds away from my personal goal weight. When I was first looking into this surgery (which was the suggested surgery of my surgeon) I was wondering just how many Vitamins I was going to have to take every day and just how much this was going to cost me. So I decided that since I just ordered a year's supply of vitamins I may as well share that for those of you who are looking into the surgery and want to know those things. And what exactly a years supply of vitamins looks like lol (though do keep in mind that every person is different. I take less Iron then the norm because my iron is naturally high. I take less Calcium for the same reason. And not every one will have just a Vitamin A deficiency. Some have B, or D, or K, or all the above)
So, for me, personally, I take 2 bariatric Multivitamins WITHOUT iron, 1 bariatric Multivitamin WITH iron, and 2 calcium citrate every day. I also take 5,000IU of Vitamin A every OTHER day. How much does that cost? Well, you will definitely have to shop around and try different vitamins before you find some that you either like or can tolerate. Some people struggle finding vitamins because certain ones make them sick. I never had this problem. However, generally after a month... or three (depending on your surgeon) they tell you that you can go to non-chewable vitamins. I can't. I have something called EoE (Eosinophilic Esophagitis) which is an autoimmune disorder that I was diagnosed with in 2016 that causes narrowing of the esophagus and makes it impossible for me to swallow pills. Thus, chewables are my only option. It's more expensive that way, but nothing I can do about that so telling you how much everything is isn't going to help as you likely won't have a problem with the far cheaper non-chewable option. If you DO have that problem however and NEED chewable vitamins full time like myself, then I spent $565.23 on a years supply of vitamins. That's about $1.55 a day or $10.87 a week or $47.10 a month (it's not as bad as it seems at first glance when put that way, right?). I wanted to make this thread because anyone who has this surgery will have their surgeon's office reminding you repeatedly, so that you understand, that vitamins are something you HAVE to take with this surgery! You cannot just suddenly decide it's too expensive and then land yourself in the hospital or even DIE because you don't want to fork over the money to keep you healthy. If you know the price ahead of time then you can either set money aside such as my own habit of setting $50 aside a month so that I can just order 6 months or a years supply at a time once I have enough to do so (I just wiped out my vitamin savings with this recent order though lol).
I wanted to make this thread because when I was going through the process I really would have like to SEE what a years supply of vitamins looks like! Also, if you have any questions about the Loop Duodenal Switch/SIPS/SADI-S and my own experiences with it, feel free to ask! Well, here's what a my own years supply of vitamins looks like:
I had it 6 months ago. My high weight was 393, my surgery weight was 368, and I'm currently 269. I'm hoping to lose at least enough to get under 200 pounds. Ideally I'd like to be 160 or less. I feel great and would do it again for sure!
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