Hi all,

I posted in the Tell Your Gastric Sleeve Surgery Story thread, but wanted to post here too. It's my two year surgiversary today. Looking forward to another year at goal.

I love my sleeve. In honor of my surgiversary, I have finally updated my profile pic, status, and added my surgery story and goal pics to my profile.

Lynda

Lynda! Congratulations

You look so tiny I just went and peeked at your profile page, looking good in those skinny jeans

Thanks Laura-Ven! I'm still surprised that I fit them. When I fold them after washing they always look too small.

Lynda

Congrats lady! You have done so well and look great!

Thanks! I feel good. Got the two year post-op appt next week. I've already got most of the blood work results back and so far, so good.

Lynda

I am on my iPhone so will look at pics tomorrow. Thank u so much for all the help. BTW congrats on ur success!

You look great! Congratulations

Thank you! Onward to year two at goal!

Lynda

Lynda, you have done a wonderful job! Congrats on your two-year anniversary...wow time flies when you are having fun, right? Looked at all the photos and you look GREAT!!!

If you want (no pressure) I would love it if you would share your "numbers" from your blood work. I did blood work at 6, 9, 12, and 18 months but then my surgeon said no to any labs at 2 years because he was satisfied with what he saw. Now that my 3 year is approaching (this fall) I will ask for labs because I just like to "know" ...ya know? You don't have to if you don't want to just a thought.

Boy there are a lot and it is complicated get the results because some have more than one set of numbers. Mine are all in the normal range, except B Vitamins. My doctor cut the amount I am to take for those from daily to 3 times per week. Other vitamins remain the same. Here's my Vitamin regime:

Kirkland Calclium Citrate with D: 3 - 2 times per day.

Nature Made Super Vitamin B Complex: 1 - 3 times per week

Spring Valley Vitamin B12 2500, sublingual: 1 - 2 times per week

Kirkland Vitamin D3: 1per day

Kirkland Multivitamin with minerals: 1 - two times per day

(No Iron because I'm post menopause)

I've copied the list of blood tests below. If there is one or two you'd like the results for, let me know. It would take a couple of hours to copy and paste in all the results. In addition, I will be having a bone density scan in the next few months.

HEMOGLOBIN A1C

GLUCOSE, RANDOM

CREATININE, SERUM, WITH GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE

POTASSIUM, SERUM

SODIUM, SERUM

BLOOD UREA NITROGEN, SERUM

CARBON DIOXIDE, SERUM

PHOSPHORUS

Calcium, SERUM

MAGNESIUM, SERUM

Vitamin D, 25-HYDROXY

PTH (PARATHYROID HORMONE)

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE

AST (ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE), SERUM

ALT (ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE), SERUM

ALBUMIN, SERUM

PREALBUMIN

CBC (COMPLETE BLOOD COUNT) WITHOUT DIFFERENTIAL

FERRITIN

INR (INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO) - PROTHROMBIN TIME, ON WHOLE BLOOD

Vitamin A

VITAMIN B12

FOLIC ACID, RED BLOOD CELL

IRON, SERUM

TRANSFERRIN

FASTING LIPID PANEL

Oh my goodness DO NOT copy and paste everything. LOL! I didn't think about that part of it. I was mostly just curious. I have a blog so at my 1 year and my 18 month I wrote a list of the most important ones and posted them. I was concerned when said don't pull labs at the 2 year but then I figured if HE wasn't worried then why should I be?

Thanks Lynda!

This is copied and pasted from my blog:

1 year labs (like you I'm sure there was "more" information on the 4+ pages of paper but this is all I was personally concerned with )

1 Year Post-op 18 Months Post-op

Glucose 91 81 (normal is 65-99)

Creatinine .64 .62 (normal is .57-1.00)

Sodium 134 135 (normal is 135-145)

Calcium 8.8 9.0 (normal is 8.7-10.2)

Protein 6.5 6.3 (normal is 6.0-8.5)

Cholesterol 126 129 (Total number, normal is 100-199)

HDL (good) 50 54 (normal is >39)

LDL (bad) 64 64 (normal is 0-99)

Tryigycer. 62 54 (normal is 0-149)

Iron (TIBC) 277 315 (normal is 250-450)

Iron Serum 53 141 (normal is 35-155)

B12 1929 1629 (normal is 211-946) this was considered high but he said that it to be expected with supplementation

Originally I was quite worried about iron but it seems to be ok so I have not done any type of iron supplementation. I'm very interested to see what my labs are at 3 years post-op!!

OK Here's mine. I didn't see a Protein test, but they did say mine is good, so they tested it somehow. Also didn't see the Iron (TIBC) test.

Test 1 year 2 year

Glucose 82 81

Creatinine .62 .48

Sodium 146 142

Calcium 9.99 9.3

Cholesteral 223 215

HDL 73 77

LDL 131 129

Trigycycer 76 64

Iron Serum 93 103

B12 >1000 >1000

Well I can't make mine look nice, but you get the idea.

Well that all looks really good Lynda! I am trying to think if they pulled all these same labs BEFORE I was sleeved, and I'm thinking that they *must* have but maybe didn't offer me a copy? I've had to ask for copies each time because I wanted to (sort-of) keep track (I'm not a medical professional) but I just wanted to kind of keep tabs on things, ya know?

Maybe I will ask at my 3 year visit if they have the BEFORE the sleeve numbers just for my own curiosity. I know my cholesterol, HDL LDL, blood pressure, tryglycerides and just about everything you can test for was all NORMAL before surgery (I did not have any obesity-related health risks at the time of surgery) but I just am wondering now how much my numbers are different than they were 3+ years ago. Def. will ask for the BEFORE numbers, !!!

I don't have before numbers for most of the Vitamins. My cholesterol was high pre-op and I had to take meds for it, but it is normal now without meds. My blood pressure was high and I took three pills for it. After a few months post-op it dropped so much they took me off all meds, but is slowly crept back up and I take two meds again now.

Lynda