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I got a call from my doctor today, and I have low Iron and low Vitamin D. Does anyone else have this problem? I was told to just take multi-Vitamins and Calcium with Vitamin D, and i have been daily. I have not been taking Iron, Vitamin D on its own, or Vitamin B complex. What kind of Vitamins supplements are recommended?

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Pretty much everyone has low Vitamin D. Doctors are on this kick that Vitamin D deficiency causes everything from diabetes to cancer...I think they're quacks. Seriously, we don't even get Vitamin D from food anyway, we get it from going outside... in the sunlight... what a novel idea! Anyway... rant over.

As far as the Iron, you can get liquid supplements which tend to be easier on the digestive tract and more effective anyway.

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Ummm, I was taking Vitamin D3 before surgery and I still take it after my surgery. I have a hard time with Iron supplements due to issues with Constipation. But I still take them. I take Multivitamins, Vitamin B complex, Biotin 10.000mcg, silica, and vitamin B12. If I forget, then I have really low energy. Oh, and I take Calcium too... ;)

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I'm taking a chewable Multi-Vitamin 2 times a day, calcium citrate w/D3 2 times a day, B-12 2 times a week, Iron chewy bite once a day. Dr said @ 6months they will lower the multi-vitamin. Just depends on blood work.

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I developed thiamine deficiency postop and I suspect also an Iron one--I realized last month that none of my Vitamins had iron, and I was experiencing some shortness of breath and funky feeling. I put myself on an iron supplement, and my symptoms resolved. So now, I take a Gummy Multivitamin, gummy Vitamin C, chewable calcium/vitamin D, iron pill, and super B complex liquigel. And I feel fantastic, so I'm going to keep taking them. :-)

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they put me on Iron last week (and yes I'm a guy) and I had a Vitamin K def. Fixed the vitamin K issue cause I was taking the WRONG kind of vitamin k. I needed to take K1 and I had been taking K2. No one in my program office had explained the difference. I'm sure def will come and go though. This was my first vitamin test and to only be low on one vitamin in my book wasn't all that bad in my eyes.

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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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      1. summerseeker

        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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