I'm a newbie....real excited but lots of questions

[hmbc 16]

Just had my first visit this week...but didn't get a good nutritional picture on going forward. I already take a lot of supplements...no one addresses any impact changes and additions may have on my regular meds and otc. Also the one sheet I received regarding the step down diet was extremely basic. I almost felt like it was open to interpretation. Any suggestions on specific questions I should be asking and to whom?... My primary, my bariatric surgeon, the nutritionist or the nurse????

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[Amelie2016 116]

My advice as a two-month post-oper, is to see everyone of your Dr.s and discuss this surgery you want with them.

I have Fibromyalgia. I stopped taking NSAIDS. If an emergency came up, you can have one, but with care paid to your stomach lining. I'm no longer on OTCs for pain control or popping OTCs willy nilly like in the past. You have to read about every medication out there prescription and non prescription because they all can affect your stomach in different ways.

High blood pressure medicine, anti-anxieties, etc can relax your LES for example, causing GERDS to worsen if you have it. Many things need to be learned. However! We should be learning these things with or without these surgeries. It took having this surgery, to get me to educate myself more than I was. I just took a "commercials" word for some things. WRONG. =)

I have since joined a "food Club" (buying now directly from an organic Farm that I can visit) and am weeding out any processed foods from my diet, reducing some of my inflammation issues naturally. I can't stay as food-centric as I was before, meaning I used to plan "fun" dinners to bond over. Now I am eating food as medicine, so to speak.

I am struggling in that I still buy way too much food. It's like I am buying for an army, and it's just the two of us. Well, now it feels like one and a half, lol.

If you have a question, ask all your Dr.s. A frustrating thing I've learned is that there are so many conflicting "opinions" and sometimes data. So you're going to have to account for that in your personal (discernment) care.

Careful of Youtube and even forums, they can scare the wits right out of you and give you anxiety attacks for days!

PS if you're already used to supplements, just talk it over with your Dr.s too and look for better brands perhaps. liquid when possible. It's hard to swallow some shortly after a procedure.

Edited March 26, 2016 by Amelie2016

[hmbc 16]

Wow....feels like you read my medical records...Thanks for the advice. I've never been one to research foods...they're on the shelves...must be okay. I have a lot of meds and various specialist.....didn't think to involve all of them. Thanks for the insight.

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