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Vitamin Question

I know that after a RNY people have to take quite a few Vitamins for the rest of his or her life.

My question is this: I haven't seen much talk about what vitamins, if any, that Sleevers need other than a Calcium supplement. What do you take?

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It's recommended to take a chewable multi-Vitamin with Iron. I tried Flintstones (icky), Centrum chewables (grodey), and then I tried some adult gummies, they didn't have iron, and I was fatigued/exhausted so I switched back to the GNC Solotron with bioavailable Iron.

I take one GNC Solotron chewable with bioavailable iron twice daily. It's fabulous tasting, and is better texture wise than flintstone's or centrum's chewable.

Calcium is never a bad thing to take. With the sleeve you need to take calcium citrate not the carbonate. I use a liquid calcium citrate that I purchase from vitacost.com I prefer to take the liquid because it's dosage is 1oz instead of 3-6 capsules or chewables of calcium citrate.

I also take a sublingual B12, not out of necessity, but I found it gave me more energy.

Calcium, Vit D, Sublingual B12, Mvit

I just bought a 32oz bottle of "Liquimax Complete Nutrition Multi Vitamin Formula" from Costco. It's a one month supply, tastes good and was about $12.00. I have been taking the "petite" Citrical Calcium Citrate pills 2x per day. They all have some Vitamin D3 but I also take a seperate D 5000 IU's a couple of times a week. After I finish this bottle I might like to try what Tiffy is taking...GNC Solotron chewable with bioavailable iron twice daily.

Once I get past the 4 weeks of crushing pills I will take calcium citrate, a multivitamin (haven't picked one yet), an iron pill, and B12.

i don't do liquids very well so i take a multi vitamin from gnc, pepcid-for calcium, b12-sublingual. that is all i take right now until my 6 weeks post op visit.

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