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I am using Biatrics advantage Multivitamins , B 12 , Iron , Calcium but they taste gross and are on the pricier side any suggestions ?

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Help please

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My surgeon said to take two Flintstones chewable daily. They taste great and they are very inexpensive.

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I use Bariatric Advantage, and I think they taste great. There are multiple flavors, you may try another flavor.

My surgeon advised against using Flinstones, because they were not nutritionally sound.

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That is inaccurate information according to a number of sources, not the least of which is the American Association of Pediatrics. They are most certainly nutritionally sound. What I have discovered in my research is that most surgeons who have a financial stake in their client using the Bariatric Advantage products, most often will recommend that brand. Unlike the gastric bypass, the gastric sleeve produces no malabsorption so it isn't necessary to take 20 times more Vitamins then you would've taken before you were sleeved.

In addition to the fact that the Bariatric Advantage Vitamins taste awful to most people who post on this site, they also contain a much higher quantity of each Vitamin than can be absorbed by the body in one day. A lot of what you're taking in with the bariatric advantage vitamins is being washed away and not absorbed because they're water-soluble.

This is an ongoing discussion on dozens of threads over the last two years. It will continue to rage on long after all of us have lost all of our weight. In the end it's just a matter of preference. Do your research. Taste them. Figure out how much you can afford to spend. Then choose, and don't look back.

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That is inaccurate information according to a number of sources' date=' not the least of which is the American Association of Pediatrics. They are most certainly nutritionally sound. What I have discovered in my research is that most surgeons who have a financial stake in their client using the Bariatric Advantage products, most often will recommend that brand. Unlike the gastric bypass, the gastric sleeve produces no malabsorption so it isn't necessary to take 20 times more Vitamins then you would've taken before you were sleeved.

In addition to the fact that the Bariatric Advantage Vitamins taste awful to most people who post on this site, they also contain a much higher quantity of each Vitamin than can be absorbed by the body in one day. A lot of what you're taking in with the bariatric advantage vitamins is being washed away and not absorbed because they're water-soluble.

This is an ongoing discussion on dozens of threads over the last two years. It will continue to rage on long after all of us have lost all of our weight. In the end it's just a matter of preference. Do your research. Taste them. Figure out how much you can afford to spend. Then choose, and don't look back.[/quote']

Ya I feel like I was being pushed into buying Biatrics advantage

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I use a chewable gummi one a day multi Vitamin daily , 1 Calcium plus Vitamin D chewy chocolate flavored. They both taste good, 28 g Iron that I open up and put into appla sauce. I read that your not suppose to take them all at once together ,but to separate them by a few hours(I do that). Hope this helps

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I use Trader Joe's chewable Multivitamin and minerals, I like the flavor they aren't expensive and their supposed to be really good for you.

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I use twin labs bariatric multi Vitamin ... I also use a separate B12 , vitamin D and Biotin all my labs came back fine

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My doc gave me the approval for a regular multivitamin, but I've puked up ever one I've tried. I did get a new one the other day called a natures miracle MINI and it is a gel cap and actually went down ok and didn't come up

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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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        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.

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