Wondering when your surgeons did blood work after surgery to make sure you weren't deficient in Iron or Vitamins? Had RNY on 2/22 and saw my surgeon last week and I was surprised they didn't order any lab tests.

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That is a little odd. I had blood work done a week before surgery and 1, 3, 6 months. I'll be having more done next month for my 1 year check-up. I would ask my primary to check things if my bariatric center wasn't doing it.

I am 3 years post-op RNY gastric bypass, and I have blood work done once per year. I understand at the end of 5 years, the surgeon will discontinue this and turn it over to my primary care physician.

I do not recall if I had any blood work accelerated during the first year or not. If so, there may have been blood work drawn at the 6 month appointment.

I also had them done at 1, 3, and 6 months - then again at 12 months. From now on I'll have them done annually unless they're monitoring something (like Iron - I have to have that checked again in another couple of months)

Mine were pulled prior to surgery to get a baseline and then 6, 12, 18 months post op.

I had my RNY Feb 10th & due to get bloods done next week

My gastro dr said they don't do labs until my 1 yr apt... My pcp found out that I was very anemic, so had labs done, I'm now on a iron supplement... I called my surgeons office to tell them the new meds my pcp has put me on and she then told me that I was almost anemic before my surgery.... I was kind of irritated why when they recommended iron after surgery that it was only the average dosage!

I am now being my own advocate and asking for blood work from my pcp every couple months.

Surgery was in February- labs done at 1 month and 3 months and scheduled for 6 months.

I just had labs done at 3 months. Deficient in D and Iron, B12 was good. Have to take extra Iron Vitamin and add Vitamin D. Still low energy. Have to increase carbs.

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I did not have any done at my 4 week. My next appointment would be my 8 week. We'll see if they order some then. I know they tried to warn me that they take 12-13 vials of blood. Should be fun. (I am a terrible stick and I've had to get multiple locations drawn to get 4-5 vials in the past. Yay?)

I'm with Kaiser and they have an excellent bariatric program in my area. There was of course more than one round of blood work taken before surgery. And then about a week after surgery I was contacted by them and also sent a follow up letter showing the dates blood work would be drawn over the next year.

I think there were three rounds in all, possibly four. All I had to was show up on the designated blood draw dates listed in the letter. The orders were all sent in in advance. Everything was good for the most part. Except one time my Vitamin A levels were a bit high. They called me right away and had me cut back on beta carotene. They're really on top of stuff like that. I was impressed!

I'm 3 months out and just had them drawn

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