Hi all,

I was wondering what kind of pills/vitamins you need to take after surgery? PPI, multivitimin ect???

Thanks, Tracy W.

Well tracy I take celebrate chewable vitamins, calicum citrate and protonics. If you are doing this make sure you get a good ppi before you have surgery and take it without fail. Some people also take b-12 sublingual. But until my blood test comes back bad for B-12 I will just take my celebrate chewables..

I'm surprised your surgeon hasn't told you what to take. All doctors are different of course but I take 2 Celebrate Chewables, 1 Iron, and 6 Calcium Citrate.

Hi,

I take a PPI every morning - Dr's orders for the first 6 months! I also take a chewable multi Vitamin every day, a sublibgual B-12 a couple days a week. My 1 month bloodwork showed I am Vit D deficient so I am taking a prescription Vitamin D once a week for 4 weeks and then I will cycle down to one vit D (over the counter) every day.

It's weird for me because I have never been one to take Vitamins. I should probably take more calcium and Iron, but so far, so good.

Lara

Well we eat so little for so long - maybe a year or more - and lose weight so fast it is easy to get Vitamin deficient.

For the most part your typical modern (especially American) diet is chocked full of natural and fortified Vitamins that additional vitamins are pretty much a waste of money. Quite often most of the dosage goes right out in urine. Someone once said that Americans have the most expensive piss on the planet Being sleeved we are not eating a lot of the fortified processed stuff and not enough other stuff to get a full load of vitamins naturally.

I say that they are cheap insurance. One thing that IS true is that it is cheap and easy to take Multivitamins, Iron and calcium citrate supplements, what is EXPENSIVE and costly health wise is to acquire a disease due to vitamin deficiency. By the time the disease has reared it's ugly head and made itself known with symptoms you are well past the point that just simply starting to take the required vitamin can fix it. Once the disease sets in it usually required more costly treatment perhaps even hospitalization to cure it - and it may leave lasting if not permanent damage to your health.

Again, it's cheap insurance and could save you monetarily and health wise to take them.

I can tolerate pills and prefer them to chewables. My NUT says its ok. I am wondering, however, if there is any benefit to chewables over pills?