I am 5 days away from surgery and in the process of shopping for vitamins... My guide from Pre-Op suggested taking an Adult Multivitamin, B12, Calcium Citrate + D3, B Complex and liquid protein supplements. The guide recommended taking liquid, powder or chewable vitamins after surgery but I'm clueless of where to find them. Please help by giving suggestions on places to find these along with the best brands to choose.

Bariatric Advantage has great calcium citrate choc chews that taste like tootsie rolls.

The are 9.99 if you put them on auto ship. That's only 500 of calicium citrate and you will need more. I get capsules from vitacost.com . They have chewables there too, but I find them to be too sweet. I get everything there, my D3 B 12 sublingual,

and my Protein powders that I make shakes.

have you checked out the places to get samples? It's in the food forum under Protein Shakes. Bariatric advantage has a whole sample package. Tell them you're getting the sleeve because I think they give different stuff to gastric bypass patients.

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Thank you so much for your help! I'm going to look into your suggestions right now!

Thanks again!

I use a variety of things. When I was first sleeved, I used a Flintstones chewable multivitamin. Now I take a prenatal with iron, but I'm 12 weeks out. I found sublingual B12 at Walgreens which works great. I use Calcet creamy bites, they are 500 mg of calcium citrate + vitamin D.. Those are great, and taste like a peice of candy. I also use Citircal petites, since I take calcium 3x a day (they are pills). I use the premier protein shakes from Costco. Very good, not terribly expensive, grab adn go, 30 gm protein per shake.

I bought chewable calcium citrate at Vitacost, I got sublingual b-12 from puritain's pride, and my multivitiman is bariatric advantage. My doctor told me I can switch to pill form just as soon as I feel ready so got the BA capsules for multi vitamin and will just take a flintstone vitamin for a little bit after surgery until I am ready for the pills. Also for the calcium, The most cost effective way for me to go is with the puritain's pride calcium+d3 petities.. they are just like the citrical petities, but they worked out to be only $6.00 a month if I bought two bottles I got three bottles free and I had a 10% off coupon so it was a good buy. Some people on here were saying that their nutritionists said that they should not take the citrical petities because they would not dissolve and would just sit in their tummies like little stones. I wondered about this since my doctor said it was ok... so I did a straight water dissolve test where I put a citrical and a puritain's pride petite calcium pill in a glass of water. Both pills dissolved in 6 minutes which is very fast. I also bought a probiotic bead from Puritain's Pride that was about half the price of CVS/Rite Aid

I didn't have to restart my vitamins till two weeks post op. used childrens chewable vitamins, chewable calcium and for my Vitamin B...I had to crush...yuk. I used unjury pre op but couldn't really tolerate it after so I used isopure zero which is a clear liquid protein i get at GNC.

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The Protein Powder suggested by my doctor is unjury . Funny name but it taste great and you can find their products on their website, Unjury.com. Also, there are adult multi vitamins gummies that I usually buy at Wal-Mart. Good luck and I am jealous, my surgery is in a month.

Thanks for your help, ladies! I'm putting your advise to good use right now!!