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I started taking Vitamins as soon as I started loosing weight, they would go down easy: however, since I started my pre-op liquid diet every time I take them they hurt my stomach. Its the same vitamins from before, its actually the same bottle! Has anyone experienced something like this?

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Paola,

It could be that the lack of food in your stomach is causing this. Vitamins can be hard on an empty stomach. try making sure you take it with or just after your Protein drink and see if that helps.

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I take them right after my dinner, at this stage I am allowed 1 low carb meal a day, and I still get the pain. It is not a go to the bathroom pain, its on the top part of the stomach.

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If nothing else has changed, it could be that you may have to find another Vitamin. I would still try taking it a different way to see if you can tolerate it. Maybe shortly after you start eating. Is it a pill you take or a chewable? I was told to have a chewable and I use Bariatric Advantage. It will make me very sick if I take it on an empty stomach and also if I take all of it on a full stomach. I nibble on one after a meal and take my time with it. I have no problems at all that way.

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Its a pill, I have some chewables but Im saving them for post surgery life.

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I'd recommend looking into the jelly or liquid form. My Vitamins would hurt my stomach post op and they were the same vitamins now i am taking the jelly form and picking up the liquid Calcium this week,

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I'd recommend looking into the jelly or liquid form. My Vitamins would hurt my stomach post op and they were the same Vitamins now i am taking the jelly form and picking up the liquid Calcium this week,

I'll look into them, thanks

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I think it's the lack of food in your stomach. Right now I take the whole food organic Vitamin from New Chapter Organics. I love them because they're made with real food so they never upset my stomach. However, they are big, so I'm not sure how swallowing them will go post-op. I have bought some chewables just in case.

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I think it's the lack of food in your stomach. Right now I take the whole food organic Vitamin from New Chapter Organics. I love them because they're made with real food so they never upset my stomach. However, they are big, so I'm not sure how swallowing them will go post-op. I have bought some chewables just in case.

I think you are right

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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