Hello everyone, I plan on having my surgery about 3 to 4 months from now. Im starting to eat better now and take vitamins. Can anyone recommend what I should be taking? Im 40 so I guess a Caltrate 500+D would be good to start with. Im confused about what vitamin, there are so many and they have all different things in them The One A Day Womens has Calcium so maybe thats not good to start with, do I need Iron? Is just a regular multi vitamin ok? Its so confusing? If anyone can give me advice on what would be good for me and also what I can continue after my surgery. Thanks all of you, This board has been so helpfull!

I take Centrum chewables and viactiv for calcium. The directions for our age is on the box.

Good luck !!!!

My famly practice doctor says a regular multivitamin is fine for adults, with extra calcium for women. I take an additional B-complex on the advice of my banding doc, and in winter take extra C as well. For most people a regular multi is plenty. The rest is all marketing.

Too many vitamins just = expensive urine in my opinion. I did start dosing up though, I'd been eating crap for way too long. I take a multi and I take just a nip of Floradix for iron everyday too as my preop testing showed I was just a little low. I should probably take calcium as well. But you can go on and on and on cant you - fish oil, herbal supplements etc etc.

I take Flintstone's complete and viactiv, it's what my doctor recommended.

I take Source of Life liquid vitamin by Nature's Plus. It is so wonderful that now my mother who is 66 and not banded takes it. I can really tell a difference in my energy level.