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40 is about the largest commonly used for sleeve gastrectomy. Yup difference between the smalleSt And largest is pretty negligible!

Nope if you have medication allergies they should def be on there! If you want to add no blind NG tube put it in the health alert part of your smart phone along with anything else relevant

Omg this is awesome! I’ve lost a chihuahua riding on a newborn giraffe!

How fun! My son has one of these somewhere...I may have to dig it out!

Does tour Dr. require chewables? I just take the regular pills usually.

Bummer!

There’s a medication called Actigall your doc can prescribe during the loss phase if your gall bladder is fine now

The chews have much higher carbs than the regular chewables.

Obesity can cause gallstones. So can rapid weight loss. I don’t miss jr

I mean I also take calcium citrate, vitamin d, a sublingual B12.... turmeric/circumin... melatonin at night.

Me? What more would you like? Bariatric Advantage is a brand. I used their chewable multi without iron.

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I understand. I’m just saying that a front line provider told me they are more likely to look in the places they look first and they are less likely to read a tattoo and the reasons. And a blind NG tube is almost never an emergency procedure.

No I understood what you mean, the post ops don’t tend to hang around on the site past a few years! I had my gallbladder removed several years before my WLS so I’m not a good one to ask on that!

“Menopause” is defined as a year without a period. So yeah 8 months then a period, totally possible! I was peri menopausal for years starting around 40! I would go for 3 months then 6 months then back to every month. Then 10 months and then a period. For years it was like that! I stopped paying attention so I really don’t even know when it finally was done. Sometime in the year before VSG because they asked and I said “oh I dunno but less than a year.” And never had one post op.

Yeah totally subjective. The grape makes me gag!

Not crazy at all. I only met one Bariatric surgeon. I set up five plastics consults when I met with them and knew right away with the “right” one (3rd). could easily have skipped the final two wouldn’t have changed my decision a bit.

Ok they might see it there, BUT what would you add? What’s relevant in an emergency? That said, tattoos are permanent. Medic alerts aren’t usually. Did you read about the guy who had a DNR tattoo? The docs didn’t honor it because there was no proof it was CURRENT state of mind and not old. Medic alert is different sure, but medical personnel are far more likely to follow instructions they know are consciously chosen every day... something you can update and chose to wear or not daily... than a tattoo that you may have gotten years ago and can’t change.

This! My sister is a paramedic on an ambulance and says they wouldn’t know to look for it. They look for bracelets and they look for the medical Id/health app on your smartphone so fill that out! She also says they rarely do anything in the field or the ER that would be impacted by weight loss surgery. In an emergency situation they aren’t putting in NG tubes and NSIADs aren’t first line and if they did use them they wouldn’t cause anaphylaxis so they are something to avoid but not necessarily important in an emergency.

That’s my question too! How do they know? I had a hiatal hernia fixed during the surgery that I didn’t even know I had. And my recovery pain was VERY minimal all the way around didn’t even have much gas pain. So yeah, how do they know what is hernia and what isn’t? So to the OP.... I had very little pain and an easy recovery. Nothing AT ALL like my Csection and not even as bad as my gallbladder surgery!

Great! Just didn’t want you developing a false sense of security based on the blood test. We tend to think what shows up in our blood is a measure of the adequacy of our diet but for things like calcium and protein it isn’t. Protein in the blood is actually a bad thing (poorly functioning kidneys)as is too much calcium (over production of parathyroid hormone). Those things can’t be assessed with a blood test. I don’t doubt you are getting enough calcium, I just think it’s important for future readers to have all the facts available. When I had my parathyroid surgery my surgeon wasn’t familiar with bariatrics and told me to use calcium carbonate to supplement. I wound up in the ER with tetany and I agree... OUCH! He upped my calcium carbonate and prescribed active vitamin D. Tetany subsides but when I had a bone density test they not only found osteoporosis but intestines full of undigested calcium. They asked me if I had recently done a barium swallow bc they couldn’t figure out what all the white stuff showing up in my intestines was!

Try this site— https://www.bariatricadvantage.com/item/calcium_chewy_bites_250mg/bariatric-advantage-calcium-chewy-bites-250mg

I switch around but none of them have any calories or carbs. I am at the point where I don’t need chewables though. But when I did I used the Bariatric Advantage ones 10 calories, 2 carbs.

> Me!! I’m going in five years out. I go up and down within 7lbs of my lowest. There are def people with long term complications and side effects... strictures are probably the biggest... but they are def the minority. Some people def regain... sliding back into old eating patterns. You can eat around the sleeve... slider foods like processed carbs, high calorie drinks, etc. but again they are the minority. Any long term side effects? Well my stomach talks A LOT... gurgles and such. There are a few foods that still don’t agree with me—carbonation, rice, untoasted bread—but I shouldn’t be eating those anyhow. And they don’t make me sick they just are somewhat painful to uncomfortable. Would I trade that for the 135lbs I lost, the marathons I run, the size 4 I wear and the blood pressure meds and prediabeties I left behind? Not a chance!

Can you switch vitamins? That’s a lot. 56 calories too