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When will the blood draws stop?
I'm so tired of having blood drawn every.single.time I go to the dr.
1st p/n visit - 10 vials were drawn
2nd p/n visit (2 wks later) - 2 vials drawn
3rd p/n visit (last Thursday) - 1 vial drawn
Today went to lab to turn in the 24 hr urine collection - 2 more vials drawn
When will it stop?!
I'm dreading my next appt 
& my arm is turning colors from all the needle pricks.
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Re: When will the blood draws stop?
LOL
If it makes you feel any better, I have had to and will continue to have 6 or so vials drawn every 6 months for the rest of my life.
I had a gastric bypass 6 years ago and my doctor does complete work ups to make sure i'm getting all the necessary vitamins/nutrients my body needs
At 40, I already have osteoporosis/osteopenia, so I have to go for reclast infusions once every couple of years. Talk about depressing... sit in a room full of cancer patients getting chemo for an hour while you have a reclast drip. Puts a whole new perspective on being healthy
Dang, lady .. you just made me feel guilty for complaining!
Interesting that your dr is so through.
I suppose if there wasn't something always a little low, she'd let me go to yearly.
Last time it was vitamin D and magnesium, sometimes it's Iron.
My B-12 is always all over the place, too.
I had the reux en Y, which means that not only is most of my stomach bypassed, but the first 1/3 of my small intestine is also bypassed. That prevents me from absorbing much of what's in food (fat as well as the good stuff like vitamins!)
Weight loss surgery truly is a last resort, and truly life changing. It's just too bad the doctors I had before the bypass weren't thorough enough with my endocrine system to realize that the problem wasn't so much what and how much I ate as it was my thyroid hormone levels.
It's always easy to believe that people are just lazy and don't exercise of watch what they eat than think there's a real medical problem.
Ah well, at least the baby seems to be getting all her nourishment even if I may not be! LOL
I will have to remind myself of this post when I am doing my 3 hour glucose test tomorrow. I was complaining about not being able to eat......now I know it could be LOTS worse.
Hope it starts to ease off.....
I will have to remind myself of this post when I am doing my 3 hour glucose test tomorrow. I was complaining about not being able to eat......now I know it could be LOTS worse.
Hope it starts to ease off.....
My doctor didn't draw blood last time. I have no idea what schedule should be!