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  1. Up2Me3

    As we feared would happen

    Looking forward to following your journey!
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    SADI-S / Loop - Please share facts about this new procedure here.

    This is great to read. I had the SADI on 10/21/2014 and down 62.....I am very impatient and it does seem to be slowing a bit....my lowest week was 2pds. I'm ok with it slowing IF it stays steady. I don't feel like I'm dieting AT ALL .... find it hard to get in even my 80 proteins let alone 100...
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    Ok.......BAD BREATH.........anyone?

    @southernlady This actually makes me happy to have bad breath LOL!! So now that you are at your goal weight - is this not an issue for you at this point?
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    Ok.......BAD BREATH.........anyone?

    Posting here on the DS board as there aren't too many of us SADI's yet. Do any of you struggle with bad breath....I'm not talking your average bad breath....I'm talking like old man near death breath! HORRID.... Chewing gum and mints sit and make my tummy rumble so I don't like to use a lot of...
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    Real food??

    I'm six weeks out.......I do like chilli. I thought I could tolerate eggs as I had a scrambled egg with cheese - kept it down - but then about 5-6 hours later.....holy heck....BAD NEWS! One thing to do at this point (which I didn't listen to but have learned to now) is try one new thing at a...
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    SADI-s out 2 weeks 2 Days.........needing some feedback

    Ok so forget the fruit and vitamins until I can get all water and protien in.....? I just worry - you hear the horror stories of falling below on the nutrients. My work is a desk job....I do try to get up and walk every 2 hours. The Prilosec.....that is an OTC...that you only take once a week...
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    SADI-s out 2 weeks 2 Days.........needing some feedback

    I am 2 weeks 2 days out. I feel like everything is SO dry.....my hair, my skin, my eyes even. I wondered if it's just fall and turning on furnace .....but I've tried to increase my water. Still only getting in 50 oz consistently....64 on a good day. But I also - am SO tired. I am working my 10...
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    SADI-S / Loop - Please share facts about this new procedure here.

    @hilary1617 thanks for this post! I've been missing in action I suppose since I am now 1 week and 1 day post op! Someone please tell me my energy level will return! LOL boy ....back to work tomorrow...tired but no pain or anything like that. I am only getting in a multi vitamin and calcium...
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    Lot's of info on Protein shakes but what about calcium citrate

    Thanks everyone! I did see the UpCal from amazon...held off ordering though becasue I can't see how many mg of calcium those packets are....does anyone have one around they could look? That's also a thought Vitalady's......just pulling the capsule apart and putting in water. Aprreciate the much...
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    Lot's of info on Protein shakes but what about calcium citrate

    Thanks everyone! I have purchased the BioTech Dry Vit D3 50,000. I have been taking that just once a week as I am already low on it. But do I really take that much every day post-op? I have a calcium citrate 500mg that I have been taking now twice a day and realize I need to get in two more...
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    Lot's of info on Protein shakes but what about calcium citrate

    Thanks! I've found a lot of powders but at the clinic they gave me sample packets of the crystals....I can find that bulk but not the nice sample packets....thought they'd be nice for on the go!
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    Lot's of info on Protein shakes but what about calcium citrate

    I have calcium citrate pills..........but they are like horse pills and I don't think I'll be getting those down for a bit. I have purchased some calcium citrate from the doctors office that is crystals\powdery....to mix in drinks or shakes. What I'd like to know - is there any thing like...
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    Dr. Gilberto Ungson and Dr.Esquerra Mexicali MX

    @Brandy I have been reading Dr. Ungson page and see that he has now started (well for some time now) the SADI-s. I noticed your surgery date was this year in August. Did you discuss in detail the duodenal switch....while the traditional DS has the name the SADI-s procedure is a form of switching...
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    Pay for the DS... Walk out with something else.

    Ok.......let's see if this works. Thanks I was tring to hit the image icon along the top bar....didn't even notice the "Upload File" below! This is my youngest sons quilt....can't find my oldest but it's very similar!
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    Pay for the DS... Walk out with something else.

    @Munchkin I took it as a congrats and support! Thanks @Larra and @hilary1617 Thanks so much for any and all feed back. The bile reflux thing is starting to worry me less and less. I know and understand the whole less malabsorption portion of this decision....I put the procedure between RNY...
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    Pay for the DS... Walk out with something else.

    @Munchkin point taken. But I don't have love or worship for my doc. I've questioned him left and right. I worked in an OR for 10 years prior and it kinda became my thought that - "the bigger the ass the better the surgeon"!! :D He would fit in right there. One thing I do believe about him is...
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    Pay for the DS... Walk out with something else.

    HA HA @DianaCox I actually asked her to check that again as well. She is confusing numbers of the DS with Loop. Dr. Roslin called me back and while he doesn't obviously know this person he says she doesn't know what she is saying. Those numbers are a DS and if she had the Loop with him then he...
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    Pay for the DS... Walk out with something else.

    @Munchkin - Thanks for sharing. I hear you on wanting it ALL off.....I have these day dreams of me being thin and toned and yada yada. But really if I were to get below 200# I would be happy. Even if my BMI stilled showed overweight - I look at it this way - I am FAR FAR better off at 190 than I...
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    Pay for the DS... Walk out with something else.

    @Munchkin I thought you did have the DS....what do you mean you wish you'd had a more drastic DS? Would you mind sharing your numbers....tell me to jump if you'd like....I hold VERY tightly to my number :speechless: I have a 3rd follow up with Cottam today and I'm trying desparately to get...
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    Pay for the DS... Walk out with something else.

    @Spiky Bugger and @DianaCox I'm going to copy and paste the email replies that I received from Dr. Sanchez-Pernaute - with his permission. Please let me know your thoughts - he has addressed some of my concerns (I highlighted those). I do realize and hear you both on the LONG TERM prognosis...
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