Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Weight Loss Surgery Complications

Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Weight Loss Surgery Complications

I shared this on my SHPT blog because it goes hand and hand with this disease. My vitamin D is extremely low which was another thing that is used to diagnose SHPT disease. I had no idea that my vitamin D was so low because that isn't something that is usually ever checked in routine blood work your doctor does. Mine wasn't checked until the doctor ordered the PTH test to see if my parathyroid harmones were too high, and of course they were. All these years I assumed when I had blood work done that because I am a gastric bypass patient that ALL the things I needed to be checked routinely were being checked. Another big mistake for me, being too complacent about my own health. Ask your doctor boldly if he is checking things like vitamin D, ferritin, phosphorus,  calcium. Those are the indicators of parathyroidism,  you need to know & make your doctor aware of the problem that we gastric bypass patients face because most PCP as well as any other doctors just simply aren't aware that the percentage of gastric bypass patients that have parathyroidism is right at 100%. Some are in early stages of it, which is the time it needs to be caught & addressed before they end up extremely I'll like me. Had I known a long time ago what I know now I assure you I would not be where I am today. I would not sit back & just assume that everything I needed to be checked was being checked. I can't stress enough to you if you are reading my blog looking for help that YOU need to be proactive,  take your health into your own hands & don't be like I was, going from doctor to doctor being treated like you were just lucky they even took their valuable to even see you & if they can't find anything wrong with you, they make you feel like you are just making everything thing up. I was told by one specialist I saw after he did his test but couldn't find out what is wrong that you should just go on home & just die since that's what you seem to want to do! I was so upset I left there crying because I couldn't believe he had talked to me that way, he was so arrogant & rude. I got severely depressed because I felt like nobody even believed I was so sick & I was just getting sicker & weaker as time went by. Just read, educate yourself about parathyroid disease & keep up with your own blood work & don't be afraid to ask questions & show your doctor the proof, just as we did.