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  1. Clematis

    Brittle/Labile Diabetes

    Since beginning PPIs three months BEFORE the DS I have had difficulty digesting dense protein. I can vomit it up hours later looking pristine and thoroughly undigested. Frighteningly, a few hours later means aspirating it in my sleep. (I eat dinner early now.) The Gastro just shrugs and says...
  2. Clematis

    Brittle/Labile Diabetes

    OK whatever you think is best, but my point in posting is that the DS may have CAUSED the diabetes. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17072232/ "A 2006 report identified the main causes of "brittleness" as malabsorption, certain drugs, including alcohol and antipsychotics, defective insulin...
  3. Clematis

    Brittle/Labile Diabetes

    LOVE Dr. Bernstein!! I got his book in the 90s when my mother was DXed but she could not manage his strict protocol (she was already showing signs of dementia) and the assisted living I moved her to would only follow (sort of) ADA more-carbs-the-merrier let's-kill-you-slower food...
  4. Clematis

    Brittle/Labile Diabetes

    Hahaha well if I wasn't happy about labile diabetes I sure as hell wouldn't be happy to learn I'm on the road to Alzheimers. Oh wait, maybe then I wouldn't care (or know) that I am slipping into labile diabetes. Thanks Georgepds for the clarification about Type 3. Someone had used the term to...
  5. Clematis

    Brittle/Labile Diabetes

    I'm 6 years out from DS. Started gaining a year ago and had evidence (solid poop) that fat malabsorption had slowed, but that isn't pertinent to this issue. Meanwhile, my fasting glucose and a1c have always been normal although I have had reactive hypoglycemia probably since I was born. When my...
  6. Clematis

    Dry Eyes and Omega 3

    Further info, should it apply to you: My worst issue was map-dot-fingerprint epithelial dystrophy. (When doc puts in a staining eye drop the cornea looks like a fingerprint from the loose cells.) The bulk of that was cured a dozen years ago when an ophthalmologist with a subspecialty in corneas...
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    Dry Eyes and Omega 3

    Dry eye is painful! Sorry about that. Restasis worked for me - I have severe dry eye and epithelial dystrophy. (Opening my eyes in the morning used to be accompanied by searing pain as my corneas were adhered to the insides of my eyelids.) I won't kid ya, Restasis is very expensive however, per...
  8. Clematis

    Flowers for Algernon

    Thank you, all. I know there are no easy answers other than strict food management. Making the post was an act of catharsis in a way: I typed it out, owned it, mourned the loss and now have to walk on in my new normal. I just pray I can level out at just chubby and the cholesterol does not go...
  9. Clematis

    Flowers for Algernon

    It’s been a while since I posted. I had DS exactly 5 years ago, lost all my weight in less than a year, high cholesterol and elevated glucose vanished. I had a lower body lift 18 months out. I have no words to describe the miracle of DS. I have been absolutely overjoyed with the happiest years...
  10. Clematis

    Mexicali Bariatric patients??

    If there are no other medical reasons for a two stage procedure, I'd push them to do a one step DS... with ESQUERRA as he has more experience in DS than Wilhelmy. Not that Wilhelmy is incompetent, quite the contrary. But if they think you have a more complicated situation for whatever reason...
  11. Clematis

    Bariatric Surgery and Kidney Injury

    Again, this article is beyond my capacity to fully understand. However I find he gets gobs of comments from physicians and patients. Give it a few weeks and go back and look at comments below article as someone s sure to ask our questions... or you can ask your own questions. He will respond...
  12. Clematis

    Bariatric Surgery and Kidney Injury

    I just received this article from Fredric Coe MD of University of Chicago on bariatric surgery and kidney damage. It's a bit of a hard read but perhaps as layman-friendly as something this complex can be. (Good god don't ask me to give a synopsis cuz it's over my head.) Coe is a world renowned...
  13. Clematis

    Kidney Stones and Bariatric Surgery

    I just received this article from Fredric Coe MD of University of Chicago. He's a world renowned kidney stone expert who I contacted 2 years ago when I started getting constant stones. (In my case it turns out I can't properly metabolize calcium supplements -- even before surgery -- so they...
  14. Clematis

    My aeroponics experiment

    I briefly had one of the (US) aero gardens. The problem is that plants need space to grow so in reality one cannot grow all the things at once that they show in their marketing photos. The European tower looks more practical because of this. @DianaCox My son wanted to grow plants in his camper...
  15. Clematis

    Lower Body Lift on THURSDAY!!!

    I don't think I'm more happy, rather that I just don't care so much. I have not done more plastics @Settledownnow. I'd really REALLY like to do my neck and lower face but I'm freaked that I'll have red scars around my ears until the day I die. I won't bury the lead: am I glad I had an LBL...
  16. Clematis

    Liver function tests abnormal

    After elevated liver tests and fat blobs visible on a scan (NAFLD), my doc just had me start taking OTC Silymarin (Milk Thistle) 200mg twice a day. She said one of her med school mentors ran studies on it and found it to be beneficial for those with NAFLD. She says she has had great success with...
  17. Clematis

    This week's surgery...

    Glad your lithotripsy got the stones. Egads about all the sand as that's kinda like peeing ninja stars. Thank god for vicodin. You know the drill: drink plenty of plain water to flush it out. Did he leave the strings just hanging there like a tampax string? Geez. My strings were knotted, curled...
  18. Clematis

    Got My Surgery Date! But...

    Calcium SUPPLEMENTS over X amount (very individual) are known to cause stones in some people. Supposedly this isn’t the case - or they have no data to support - calcium in foods (but I disagree). All I can relate is mostly anecdotal. I had stones in the 1970s after a poverty period where I...
  19. Clematis

    Got My Surgery Date! But...

    Oh and the reason we say to track your own labs is that your physician (usually PCP orders labs, not surgeon) scans down the list only for the high or low flags put on by laboratory. They won't necessarily notice that you have plummeted in values if you started at top end, are now at bottom end...
  20. Clematis

    Got My Surgery Date! But...

    Please note that you will probably need copper, magnesium citrate and especially zinc. Zinc is a big one many of us become quickly deficient in and low zinc levels can cause a host of symptoms like skin issues, hair loss and cognitive dysfunction.
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