What vitamins do you take daily? And what do you take them for? I'm still pre op but will be having surgery in a little over two weeks. My doctor hasnt given me any information about vitamins I should take after surgery so I thought I'd ask here also, when did you start taking vitamins post op?

Flings tones chewable gummy bears lol... Taste great

Flintstones twice a day until 21 days post op, then i start regular woman's vitamins twice a day, calcium 1000 mg a day and b12 once a week.

Opurity bariatric. One a day- chewable. I like them. They come in a bottle of 100; so when I'm done I'll do flu stones probably. I started them when I started my pre op diet.

I am taking Optisource from Walgreens. It is made for bariatric patients and has everything I need. I take four chewables pills a day. Is Optisource overkill? I like them, but it is $27.00 a bottle.

My nutritionist told me 2 flintstone chewables a day for life, 1 sublingual b12 (you put it under your tongue and it dissolves), and I drink zero vitamin water with biotin, vitamin a and e for my skin elasticity.

before surgery,2weeks before I was instructed to take 2 multivitamins a day,I take Centrum chewables,after surgery I continued with 2 a day until my first post op, now its once a day also a sublingual B-12 once a week,at my last visit,he added chewable calcium,which i take Citracal chewables and he added a vitamin d supplement .I, on my own take Biotin

I started taking 2 Centrum chewables a day (1 morning, 1 night) during my pre-op and post-op liquid diets. When I got to solid foods, I dropped to one chewable multi per day. Because of other meds I was on, I took 2 Tums twice a day for calcium. I also take a 500 mcg B12 daily, plus Biotin. Starting at about 7.5 months, I switched to non-chewable Vitamins with slightly higher values than the chewables. Mine are Spectravite (CVS house brand) for women.

All of my vitamins have been vetted and approved by two different doctors, my surgeon and my pulmonologist. I don't even ask my PCP questions because he is totally against WLS and is no support at all.

Lissa,its too bad that your PCP is against the surgery,but Im curious,you didnt have to get a letter from him saying that he agreed you needed to have the surgery?

My ins required it.

Kathy

Kathy, I self-paid. No insurance requirements and no need for a letter from him. I've been seeing my PCP since I was 11 and I'm 45 now. He's seen my struggles with my weight and how hard I've tried to lose it on my own, yet he still kept telling me no to WLS. I finally said FU and went my own way after major health complications. Oh, and while he was saying No to WLS, he kept listing me as a "non-compliant, morbidly obese female". Um, if I'm morbidly obese, maybe it's time to suggest WLS!

Now, he gushes over my weight loss, even though he frowns every time I remind him that WLS got me started. What a moron. He needs replacing.

sounds very old school,they can sometimes be the hardest to change,oh well good thing you didnt listen to him!

Thanks y'all!

Kathy, I self-paid. No insurance requirements and no need for a letter from him. I've been seeing my PCP since I was 11 and I'm 45 now. He's seen my struggles with my weight and how hard I've tried to lose it on my own, yet he still kept telling me no to WLS. I finally said FU and went my own way after major health complications. Oh, and while he was saying No to WLS, he kept listing me as a "non-compliant, morbidly obese female". Um, if I'm morbidly obese, maybe it's time to suggest WLS!

Now, he gushes over my weight loss, even though he frowns every time I remind him that WLS got me started. What a moron. He needs replacing.

your Md must be a bean pole right? There are some physicians that are so against WLS. luckily mine was not and when I told him that I was starting the process he let me know that if I needed anything not to hesitate.

One of my very dear friends is an MD and totally against WLS surgery. He probably weighs 400 lbs and can hardly walk up a flight of stairs. You should have read his email to me talking about the horrible results of WLS.

Well, I didn't listen because I was sleeved on May 8.

No, Laura. My MD is average weight, but he's of oriental extraction and I'm sure has never had a weight problem in his life. @@ He always had this disappointed look on his face when he saw my weight. I can't wait until I'm at goal and go in for my checkup, just to watch him eat his words!