I was highly disappointed when I met with the nutritionist and she told me I couldn't take iron and calcium together. I thought I would just wake up and take a bunch of vitamins everyday nit that I would have to take them 3-4 times a day to get enough calcium and iron and for them not to be taken together plus a multivitamin plus biotin plus something else. Could people please reply with exactly what you take and when in the day.

Well there are restrictions for everyone on what can be taken together so that's normal even without surgery. I have to take multi 1x a day, calcium citrate 2x a day, b12 1x a day, colace 2x a day, actigall 2x a day and then I choose to take a probiotic.

I take a multi vitamin, one in morning, one in evening. I take calcium, 3 tablets but I have to make sure I don't take them within 2 hours of the multi or one of them cancels out the benefits of the other. I take the calcium in a split dose as well. I used to take them all together as well so it's been a change to get used to.

If you have a smart phone get rxmindme. App. Gives an alarm when anything is due . After a while it becomes second nature.

I just met with the nutritionist today for the first time too, and I'm feeling just as worried as you. I currently take no pills at all, so taking up to 5 different supplement pills 4 separate times a day is sounding extremely daunting to me. I'm almost reconsidering surgery.

I just met with the nutritionist today for the first time too' date=' and I'm feeling just as worried as you. I currently take no pills at all, so taking up to 5 different supplement pills 4 separate times a day is sounding extremely daunting to me. I'm almost reconsidering surgery. [/quote']

I have completed my nutrition visits (this monday is my final step before being submitted to insurance, and that's the psych eval) and I just started taking a multivitamin daily. It's hard. And it tastes bad. Then I burp the nasty Vitamin flavor for a couple hours... I also just started D3 (my bloodwork came back at 13, but the range is supposed to be 30-60!). I ordered sublingual b12 which I'm supposed to start ASAP. I ordered calcium citrate for after surgery... also looking into Iron and Biotin. I got a granny-status pill organizer off drugstore.com. It has 7 days of the week with 4 compartments in each day -- morn, noon, eve, and bed. **AND** each day's compartment pops out so you can take it with you!

Taking pills sucks. I absolutely hate it. But I figure, a) I should've been taking a multi anyway so I need to get used to it, and I won't have this crazy pill regimen FOREVER. A pill regimen, yes -- but not a crazy one. And there are a lot of "mini" and "petite" versions of Vitamins out there to make things a tiny bit easier.