Can I get your recommendations for vitamins....which Iron,B12, Calcium Citrate, and Multi are best and inexpensive?

These are what I take:

B12-Natures Bounty sublingual

Calcium Citrate- Bariatric Advantage chewy bites I have the lemon, chocolate and caramel. I also have the Calcet bites lemon and chocolate and Citracal + D. I like variety!!

Multi-Centrum I buy the Walmart brand-same ingredients and ALOT cheaper. Until I was able to swallow BIG pills at 4 weeks, I did the Bariatric Advantage Orange chewable multi.

Iron- Bariatric Advantage Chocolate Raspberry Truffel chews and Ferrous Gluconate supplements from my dr. (I am anemic and have to take more!!)

Hope this helps!

Kelly

Can I get your recommendations for Vitamins....which Iron,B12, calcium citrate, and Multi are best and inexpensive?

Here is my daily intake , I order them via drugstore.com or Just walmart.

Hope this helps

Hello,

For some reason my doc has blood work done for me every 3 months... all my levels for Iron & vitimans come back awesome... I go in another 3 weeks for my 9 month blood work.

• Centrum multiviamin chewables, orange flavor.. one a day after I eat my last bite of lunch! Wal-Mart $9.96 a bottle of 100 Vitamins
• Viactive Calcium plus D - Caramel soft chews has 500 mg of Calcium, Vitamin D & K.. Wal-Mart $9.66 a box of 100 soft chews (and they are tasty too!!)
• liquid B Complex: Spring Valley sublingual B Complex - one dropperful every other day. Wal-Mart $6.00 a bottle, each bottle has 59 doses!
• Biotin (for hair & skin) Natuers Bounty 5000 mcg - 2 a day, one after lunch, one after dinner. Small, little soft gel pills. Originally bought on vitamin web site off net for about $7. a bottle, have since found exact same at Meijers for about 10. a bottle, but they come on sale buy one, get 2nd 1/2 off. Wal-Mart & other stores sell Biotin, but the pill size is large or the dose is too small... this one is great, small litle gel pill, so easy to swallow...

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Celebrate Multi Complete with Iron - 2 daily chewables

Celebrate calcium citrate 500mg with Vit D and Magnesium chewables - 2 daily (don't do carbonate, we don't absorb it properly, and it's the cheapest, least assimilated form of calcium on the market)

sublingual b12 (WalMart or Walgreens) 2500mcg per day

The recommendation from my surgeon: During losing stage, Multi Vitamin with iron (depending on type/brand, just need the regular serving size be it 1 or 2), Calcium citrate 1200-1500mg (in maintenance since I can consume more dairy, only need 1000mg, B12 vaires by lab results. B12 (and several others are Water soluble and we can not absorb b12 via swallowed or chewed pills) so supplementing with a sublingual or injectable is required to ensure maintenance levels of b12.

You can order free or cheap samples from Bariatric Advantage and Celebrate vitamins:

http://www.celebratevitamins.com/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=sample

http://www.bariatricadvantage.com/catalog/categoryHandler?cat=Bariatric%20Advantage%20%3A%20Sample%20Kits

Personally, I'm just a big kid on the inside so I like chewables. I've been extremely pleased with the Celebrate and will pay extra for the formulation. Also, I've been able to stay on them through my pregnancy because the formulation/ingredients and levels of vitamins/minerals is higher and better formulated than most pre-natals. That speaks volumes to me when it comes down to Vitamins post-op.

Celebrate Multi Complete with Iron - 2 daily chewables

Celebrate calcium citrate 500mg with Vit D and Magnesium chewables - 2 daily (don't do carbonate, we don't absorb it properly, and it's the cheapest, least assimilated form of calcium on the market)

sublingual b12 (WalMart or Walgreens) 2500mcg per day

The recommendation from my surgeon: During losing stage, Multi Vitamin with iron (depending on type/brand, just need the regular serving size be it 1 or 2), Calcium citrate 1200-1500mg (in maintenance since I can consume more dairy, only need 1000mg, B12 vaires by lab results. B12 (and several others are Water soluble and we can not absorb b12 via swallowed or chewed pills) so supplementing with a sublingual or injectable is required to ensure maintenance levels of b12.

You can order free or cheap samples from Bariatric Advantage and Celebrate vitamins:

http://www.celebrate...formname=sample

http://www.bariatric...20Sample%20Kits

Personally, I'm just a big kid on the inside so I like chewables. I've been extremely pleased with the Celebrate and will pay extra for the formulation. Also, I've been able to stay on them through my pregnancy because the formulation/ingredients and levels of vitamins/minerals is higher and better formulated than most pre-natals. That speaks volumes to me when it comes down to Vitamins

Thanks so much! Great info.

Hello,

For some reason my doc has blood work done for me every 3 months... all my levels for Iron & vitimans come back awesome... I go in another 3 weeks for my 9 month blood work.

• Centrum multiviamin chewables, orange flavor.. one a day after I eat my last bite of lunch! Wal-Mart $9.96 a bottle of 100 Vitamins
• Viactive Calcium plus D - Caramel soft chews has 500 mg of Calcium, Vitamin D & K.. Wal-Mart $9.66 a box of 100 soft chews (and they are tasty too!!)
• Liquid B Complex: Spring Valley sublingual B Complex - one dropperful every other day. Wal-Mart $6.00 a bottle, each bottle has 59 doses!
• Biotin (for hair & skin) Natuers Bounty 5000 mcg - 2 a day, one after lunch, one after dinner. Small, little soft gel pills. Originally bought on vitamin web site off net for about $7. a bottle, have since found exact same at Meijers for about 10. a bottle, but they come on sale buy one, get 2nd 1/2 off. Wal-Mart & other stores sell Biotin, but the pill size is large or the dose is too small... this one is great, small litle gel pill, so easy to swallow...

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AWESOME ...THanks!