I would like to know what everyone has for advise on Vitamins. The doc. office "recommended" fusion chewable, and I think that was 3 a day. I am having no problems with taking a pill so would like to find a one a day pill. Who's using what ?

Hey there....

This may sound funny but it was in my packet of info when I started this a year ago. The doc says in this booklet that kids chewables works too but then you have to get a calcium to go with it. So I take my Flintstones everyday, the gummie ones and now I need to get a calcium. When I saw him this past Wednesday he said that was fine so ???? I had gone to GNC and gotten some chewable for women and OMG it was tooooo sweet for me it made me gag when I smelled it. So that was out and when I re-read my book I saw the suggestion so I jumped at Flintstones....lol

My nutritionist says I can't have any gummy Vitamins after surgery. I bought some before I found out so I've been taking them just to use them up before surgery. I'm going to take Centrum chewables after the surgery, as well as calcium plus Vitamin D and vitamin B12.

I can't stand the smell when I open my vitamin bottle either so I've gotten in the habit of pointing the top of the bottle away from me when I open it. Seems to help a little bit.

I used chewables for the first few months for bigger pills, Centrum chewable multi, Citrical calcium chews several times per day, biotin dissolavable, iron, D3 and B12 chewables. After about 3 months when the chewables ran out, I just started buying the standard supplements at Walmart per the advice of my bariatric nurse coordinator who is a 13 year survivor of gastric bypass. Still take, D3, B12, Biotin, calcium slow release and iron slow release iron in addition to the multivitamin, but swallow them all now.

Here is what was in my patient handbook