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Flintstones! At my 3 month checkup my doc said my panels look great, so they must be working

I've been researching Vitamins and supplements for post op use since getting my surgery approved and date set. Most reliable comparisons seem to point to Celebrate, Bariatric Advantage and opurity as being the top three recommended and trusted brands for Gastric Sleeve Patients. I want a quality product that I can take with confidence so I will be using one or a combination of these brands for my long term use. I received sample packs with a good assortment of Vitamins and supplements from Celebrate and Bariatric Advantage so I can try them and decide which taste and work best for me. Opurity only sends samples to medical offices but they do offer a sample pack for purchase.

I take 2 Trader Joe's High Potency chewable Multi's (one with Breakfast, one with dinner), Wellesse liquid Calcium and liquid Iron (at least 2 hours apart), generic Vitamin D, K2, and B12. I get my labs drawn regularly and they have always been excellent.

My nut said taking 2 Flintstones Vitamins a day was good enough. But I also take time released B12, Calcium, D3, Biotin, and Vitamin C. She said if my body doesn't need all of that it will just come out as potent urine.
Thank you for letting me know about the calcium and Iron not being taken together. I did not know that. I don't currently take iron but will look into it.

I take 2 generic children's Vitamins. They're the only ones I could find that included thiamin and Iron (which my nurse said was important I have in my vitamin).

I am now two months post op, and down 45 pounds and 4 dress sizes! Not much back pain, and feeling great for the most part. The hard part for me was the lack of support from my family, but I know that this is well worth it. My advice for someone with unsupportive family is to keep in mind what brought you to make the surgery decision, and hold it in your heart.

Well then, where to begin. This journey of the VGS is not the typical, spoon fed, lb of bacon 3 times a day, with a side of fried chicken as a appetizer, before every other meal. Granted my diet has not been the "best" it could be, I have had environmental influences that contributed to just eating the wrong foods for comfort and/or grazing like a cow in a pasture alone.
With the upcoming birth of my first son, I want live a life with him that is full of enjoyment and excitement. While I posses a warrior mindset, I just don't look the part anymore.
My build is not typical of that "morbidly obese" person. I stand 5-11 and currently weigh in at 385 pds. However I carry it very well, have no problem keeping my 10 yr younger than me fiance' happy and remain active in a variety of activities. I just can't shake the weight.
Bring it back to 3 weeks ago, from a injury to my leg that has a lot of scar tissue, I am prone to infections, particularly staph or strep. The infectious disease physician put it point blank, "You are healthy as a 21 year old Spartan, no heart disease, no diabetes, no high blood pressure, not medicated, arteries and veins that are clear, lung function is great since you don't smoke, BUT, if you want to live to see 45, you need to drop 200 pds yesterday!"
Insurance does not cover any form of WLS... PERIOD.. Doesn't matter who what when where or why.. PERIOD. RED LIGHT, Do not pass go, Do not collect 200.00.
Cash price 13.5K all inclusive.. Certified funds..I thought about starting a GOFUNDME.
So I didn't rob a bank, or knock off a jewelry store, but I did swallow pride and went to my family. Being a public servant, I just don't have that kind of cash laying around, no matter what Hollywood Blockbuster you watch and think all the guys are "on the take"...
A week from today 02JUN2014 will be a new beginning, I have been shaking it for 2 weeks now, I feel better, more energy, but just ready to the flux capacitor fired up and go back to the future.
Pics will be forthcoming, however, given the nature of my professional duties the face will be blurred.....

I guess I've missed all this "bullying" that you speak of. In the future, I'd suggest if you feel "bullied", hit the report button and ask a moderator for assistance.

Creating a topic to call names and point fingers is only going to stir up drama and quite frankly, is against the rules of this forum. I'm sorry your feeling were hurt by someone and I hate that it happened to you. You have every right to ask any question you want and I encourage you to continue to post, learn and grow (shrink!?!) but at the same time, starting topics like this do nothing for the good of the community.

Best wishes to you.

8 months post op 103 pounds lighter

I'm 6 days post op and mentally hungry not physically, my mind thinks about food but my stomach isn't quite the same, I miss my favorite foods already but the great thing is I ate about 2 ounces of cream Soup and felt like I wanted to gag, I had to run to the washroom and relieved myself from the other end, things like this allows me to stay in check by knowing that my stomach cant consume to much or I will be sick eventually my relationship with food will be a healthy one where I'm eating to live and not living to eat. That type of freedom will bring much success.

Hang in there yall. We all had the surgery for a reason or more. Please keep that/those thing(s) in the forefront of your mind. We must learn to retrain our thoughts, actions and desires. We now eat to live instead of living to eat. The sleeve is our tool, friend, constant pal to help us achieve the things we had trouble doing. For me, it was overeating that I needed help with. Although I am only 2 weeks and 1day out, I have changed my focus from food being the center of my life. I have gone out to Breakfast just to spend time with my partner and it did not bother me because the focus was on sharing time and not the food. I know tgat evemtually I will be able to eat again but my tool will be able to help me not overeat if I use it.
I am sorry that the lady at the party was so insensitive with her statement but in my case that statement may have had some truth and thus the reason I got the sleeve was to help stop me from overeating and getting help conntroling the amount I could wolf down.
Please be careful in the choices you make when you decide to cheat and limit those things as much as possible. My go to cheat has been cheeses nips because they pretty much liquidfy. It was not something I am proud of and I know that if I made that a daily go to, eventually that high carb junk food will get out of hand. My biggest fear is going throigh all of this and ending up gaining all my weight back or not meeting any of my goals. I won't be able to blame anyone but myself because I dod not use the gift I gave myself...my sleeve.

Just home from the hospital, mine was may 13th

I bought sample packets. Some websites have different samples you can buy and try. My bariatric pantry and Unjury were some websites I used to buy samples.

Some 711 has them gunna look around

Consent papers signed today! May 29th is my date!

Mine is on 5/29.

Hi have you tried Premier Protein shakes I am using theses as well as Isopure because they have 30 and 40 grams of Protein per serving , congrats on your choice to be healthy I am having my procedure Monday .