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I'm taking 2500 mcg... Its by natures bounty. Does anyone take this?

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I'm taking 2500 mcg... Its by natures bounty. Does anyone take this?

U know u can get the B12 shot at ur family doctor and pay nothing for it its free when u have wls

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How long are the B-12 shots good for? How often do you have to go back and get one?

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I like this idea as it would eliminate one pill for me to take. Thanks for the information!

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I take 2500 mcg twice a week and my labs are great. I'd rather have a sublingual twice weekly than a needle!

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I take one sublingual tablet every morning at 500mcg and my labs are perfect.

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You can not take too much. You absorb better with the shots you only absorb about half the B12 orally. My surgeon said to take it 2-3 times a week,

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B-12 is a Water soluble Vitamin, which basically means if your body gets too much, then you just pee out the excess. If won't harm you if you have too much of it, only if you have too little. Now there are some Vitamins like Vitamin D that are fat soluble which means if you have too much, it gets absorbed into fat cells and can cause major issues, but B12 isn't going to hurt you if you have to much.

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Thanks guys. I feel better about taking it now. Honestly, I like the taste of it too. This one dissolves fast too.

Hope you are all having a great day!

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I take one sublingual tablet every morning at 500mcg and my labs are perfect.

Ditto for me, per my MD & Dietician.

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I used to do 5000mcg a day- switched to the shot 2 months ago - I get 2 cc's a month- cant tell a difference yet... but fingers crossed...

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The good thing about B-12 is that you can't really over do it. It's one of those Vitamins that any excess flushes from your system.

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How long are the B-12 shots good for? How often do you have to go back and get one?

Our doc will give you a shot on your visits, or write an Rx, To give them to yourself once a month. That's what I do, well my husband anyway. It is a muscle shot so not hard to do at home. Hardest part is getting all the Fluid out of the little container lol.

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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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