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Lapband here. My doc suggests a daily Multivitamin and Calcium supplement.

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Doctors are different and you are different... you should call your doctor... I take a Multi-Vitamin, D3 and coq10, and Calcium citrate...but that's what meets my needs, you need to find out what fits yours...

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By three months out you should of had a follow up blood test. If not.....get one. A blood panel will indicate where you stand with your levels and if anything needs adjustment.

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I'm 3 months out down 60lbs but not sure I'm getting enough Vitamins? What and how much are we to be taking?

I am five months post op from the sleeve and take daily multi Vitamin gummie, and calcium citrate chews from Bariatric Advantage. To my understanding this is a permanent substitute that needs to b taken for sleeve patients. Majority are also on sublingual B12 as well to my understanding.

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oh yeah...forgot B12!!!! B12 forever :)

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I take 3 calciums, 2 flintstones, 1 B12, 1 D3, 1 cranberry, and 1 green tea extract every day. Sounds like a lot, but I have timers set on my work computer to go off when it's time to take one, so it doesn't interfere with anything. Actually, I only take my Vitamins Monday-Friday. Almost never on weekends. My levels have always been on target. The cranberry and green tea extract are extras I've added, not required by doctors.

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I’m a sleeve patient and have been compliant and successful and reached goal weight years ago. I swear by Vita4Life. I’ve tried all the chewables and they just didn’t work for me. I wound up with deficiencies of some kind or worse, sick stomach or Constipation so bad I had to stop them. I take sublingual B12, multi standard and Calcium chelate. I agree with others that you should get your labs done and see where you’re at and take it from there. J Good luck!

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Try to get your labs done regularly . Mine have been good so far and I have been able to reduce the amount of supplements I need to take greatly. Currently I only take a multi and a Calcium supplement. I also take Biotin for my hair but my doctor does not require it.

If you Baristric program doesn't do them, have you pcp do them at least every 6 mths. Mine were done at 6 weeks, 3 mths, 6 mths and I'll get another panel at my annual. You want them gone regularly so that you can catch any deficiencies before they become problematic.

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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
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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.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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