For kick and giggles, here's a list of prescriptions and OTC drug as recommended by my doc I am on:
Propranolol 120mg/ day - This is to prevent my migraines and cluster headaches, but also helps lower blood pressure.
Imitrex 100mg as needed - If I do happen to get a migraine even though the above should work, I take this.
B12 500mcg/day - OTC but doctor recommended because my count is low.
D (?) - I have a prescription of a stronger vitamin D I am taking once a week for a month then I will go to the dosage below:
D 2000 IU/day
Gummy Multivitamin
Ibuprofen as needed for back pain (and usually needed)
Vitamins take up the most of that, but I figure I had better get used to taking them now anyway. After the surgery I will have to take many different vitamins for the rest of my life because of malabsorption (as a result of bypassing the part of the intestines that absorb the most nutrients).
Forgive me if I'm confused...I have a few friends who got gastric bypass.
ReplyDeleteOne lost 80 lbs before the surgery, she was around my current weight when she got it. (I'm 255, she was around there somewhere.)
The other lost 60 lbs before the surgery,she was probably in the 270's or so.
Anyhow...I was 299 at my high weight and I feel SO much better at 255, I feel more hopeful, more like 'I can do this' now that I have a little success built up...I'm confused, why go to all the trouble, the possible complications (my two friends, the one had to go back in three times to fix problems the surgery caused, the other had to go back in twice)...the risk of regain WITH a stapled stomach which seems so much worse than regain without it, the side effects, malnourisment, possible addictions in the future...
If you have done it, why not keep at it?
This isn't a value judgement, it is I swear...total bewilderment.
Or, maybe I'm a wimp and surgery is scary. lol.
I will respond to this in a blog post because I think it should be on the main page.
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