hi everybody , i was wondering if it is true that You are required to take a multi-vitamin with minerals for the rest of your life after the surgery ??? ........ i thought its only required with the bypass surgery not the sleeve ??

Sorry, a Multivitamin is a daily requirement forever and ever amen. At least that's what my surgeon tells me. Truthfully, you'll probably find that you need more than just the multivitamin. My daily regimen at 5 months post op includes: Morning: chewable multi-Vitamin, sublingual B12, Biotin, and two Tums. Evening: two Tums and an extra multi-vitamin if I haven't managed to get some veggies in during the day.

Most doctors actually recommend a Calcium pill, but I take the Tums because of interaction with other meds that I take.

The vitamin isn't a big blip on the radar. Just find one whose taste you can tolerate. I'm going to switch to a pill I can swallow when I buy more Vitamins, but the chewable pills have been wonderful so far!

I've always taken a vitamin every day, so adding another one is no biggie.

hmm , iv never took multivitamin so its kinda weird to me , well i guess i have to get used to the idea !! , but the other meds are just temporary right ?

Yes, but even without the surgery we should be taking vitamins anyway, so just look at it that way

Yep it's an every day thing forever.

I have my multi,

calcium citrate(must be this type of citrate calcium because we no longer produce the acids in our stomach as before),

iron,

D3

B1

B12

And I take the biotin to help with the hair loss. My dr said he didn't approve or disapprove of that one but it won't hurt.

wow i gotta say am shocked !!!! , its hard to accept the idea of multivitamin forever , turns out i have too keep using all of the other meds forever ....

Vitamins were never high on my "must take daily" list. Post surgery, however, your food intake drops substantially; in some cases, like mine, the type of food you eat also changes--now that I don't eat much meat or many grain products, I need to supplement nutrients that I'm not getting from food.

Presurgery, I took no vitamins. Post, I take a multi, calcium (I'm a girl close to 50 and I'm sure this is an osteoporosis prevention thing), Iron, and a super B. It's actually not a big deal--I keep them by my sink and take them at the appropriate time when I'm brushing my teeth.

On the up side, if you're on "medications" that are obesity-related, you may find that those go away. My husband stopped all five of his diabetic meds, his blood pressure med, his lipid-lowering med--and we are THRILLED to just be on vitamins and minerals. Frankly, they help us feel better, so it's not difficult at all to remember to take them. And they're a lot cheaper and better for us than those prescription meds ever were.

Yup, multi-vitamin forever. We can't eat enough food in a day to get all the nutrients we need in the quantities we need. I try to eat enough variety so that I am still getting micronutrients that might be missing from vitamins--stuff like mushrooms, blueberries, kale.

Kaiser Fremont plan has a ton of supplements, which I am dutifully taking. Better safe than sorry is my motto.

I take:

Calcium: 3 pills, twice per day

Vitamin D: once per day

Vitamin B: once per day

Multi: twice per day

B12 sublingual: twice per week

Iron: Haven't been taking, but it's on our list. If I get to feeling tired, I take it for a while then slack off.

Lynda

thanx a lot guys for making that clear for me , mind if i ask how much money u need for the supplements per month ???

and correct me if am wrong here , this is what iv read in Google

post op supplements

Multivitamins : forever

Calcium : forever

Iron : first 2 years only

b12 : first 2 years only

thanx a lot guys for making that clear for me ' date=' mind if i ask how much money u need for the supplements per month ???

and correct me if am wrong here , this is what iv read in Google

post op supplements

multivitamins : forever

calcium : forever

Iron : first 2 years only

b12 : first 2 years only[/quote']

I don't think I spend much a month , you can get your Vitamins or supplements at walmart and it won't be much . Is not that hard to take the vitamins . Hang in there , you can do it!!!

That's what my doctor told me. I take two centrum silver chewable multivitamins every day, plus a prescribed B12 (man, I wish someone would have told me how awful they smelled and tasted!) and a weekly vitamin D supplement (I was told a normal range for vitamin D is 30-100, mine is 12 . Darn my mother's genes!). I'll have to ask the doctor to be sure but I think for right now I just have to take the B12 and vitamin D until I see him again and do another blood work. If those levels are normal, I can stop taking those and only have to take the multivitamin. Hope so!

You will need to take at LEAST a multi vitamin for the rest of your life.

I have to take a multi vitamin, 2 calcium tablets, an iron tablet every day. Vit b12 jab every month and a tablet every day for 6 months after surgery to prevent gall stones