I've been lurking for a while and thought it was time to introduce myself. I'm Donna and I'm going to Dr. Spivak in Houston for my sleeve surgery which will hopefully be in May. I've read a lot of your posts regarding vitamins, hair loss, healing and not getting enough protein. I called my Dr's office because I was admittedly a bit freaked out. My Dr. told me to go to Bariatricadvantage.com for vitamin supplements, that they were the best for bariatric patients...my Dr. has had no issues with his patients losing their hair and he has been performing surgeries for a long time. Hadar Spivak is his name, feel free to do a google search on him and see his credentials. I just wanted to help some of you that may not know what vitamin to take or are having problems with hair loss, etc. They also have protein, books, etc. on the site. They have kits put together for the various procedures....really sort of cool. I know I will be ordering before my surgery and I will let you know how it goes. Thanks for sharing your stories.

Donna aka Austinmom

I take two of my kids gummy vites. My doc said that should be ok. I haven't been to the site yet, but are their supplements really expensive, or along the same price lines as the kids' vitamins?

Hey Donna, and welcome.

Bariatricadvantage has some really great products. Some were out of my price range, but I found comprehensive and high quality Vitamins elsewhere.

Here's a Vitamin comparison chart so you can see which ones give you the biggest bang for your buck. Bariatric Advantage Calcium citrate lozenges are yummy, and I'm probably going to get some of those when my capsules are out.

You can click on the spreadsheet icon, and there are 3 of the bariatric advantage vitamins on there for comparison.

VitsComparison.xlsx - Windows Live

Good luck and best wishes on your upcoming surgery ! ! ! I took my vitamins religiously, got in Protein as soon as I was on soft solids, but still lost 1/2 my hair. Luckily, it grows back.

Tiff when I clicked on that, there was a bar graph but it didn't show anything on it. I couldn't make any sense of what that bar graph was for and it didn't mention any vitamins.

Tiff when I clicked on that, there was a bar graph but it didn't show anything on it. I couldn't make any sense of what that bar graph was for and it didn't mention any Vitamins.

You click the graph and then it loads a zip file. I have a mac, so I had to download open office so I could open it. If you do not have excel, or an excel reader, you cannot open it.

Well that makes sense then. I don't have excell. Can somebody just copy and paste it so we can see it. I am assuming that it's a comparison of bariatric advantage vitamins to other vitamins you can buy for less money.

just download open office. it will give you the ability to open all of the ms office extensions.

I'll ask Tiffy to eamail it to me.

I take the Bariatric Advantage Cinnamon Calcium tablets and they taste amazing. I got some free samples at the hospital, tried a few other kinds, then bought these. I got mine on www.dietdirect.com. Their prices were better than the Bariatric Advantage site. They also sent me some free samples, which caused me to send them another order. I'm getting BariWise protein bars and hot chocolate too. But that's another topic - sorry to digress!

Hi, I think your hair will shed due to the body shock whatever you do. If you take basic good vits and keep a high protein diet it all sorts itself out anyway. Thats what happened to me, so save your money.

Do you get the hot chocolate from that site and the protein bars from them too? How is their shipping? I could not find the hot chocolate there.

Hi, I just wanted to say my daughter had her bypass in Sept with Dr. Spivak and he is great- but she did lose alot of hair, she started on biotin and it has helped ALOT. Not everyone loses hair but alot do,btw she has lost 95 lbs since surgery,good luck.Carla:001_smile: