So I am still pre op but my doctor wants me to start a vitamin regimen during my supervised diet to get used to them. My question for everyone is where are some cheaper places to get vitamins vs. GNC or vitamin stores and still seem to do the job?

Your multi Vitamin needs to be chewable so I use Flintstones children's complete. I take two at a time.

Your Calcium citrate must be chewable I get mine from Celebrate Vitamins.

Your Omega 3 can be in pill form.

Your Vitamin D3 can be in pill form.

If you take Biotin to help with future hair loss I use Biotin Dots from Twin Labs.

The reason you need chewables for certain vitamins and supplements is because with bypass you don't absorb them properly in pill form.

This is standard information.

Good luck with your future surgery.

You can also take your Vitamins in liquid form or sublingual.

My surgeon request that we take our B12 in sublingual form.

Viactiv is a good source of calcium and Vitamin D and taste good too-----most drug stores have their own version of it for much cheaper

In the beginning I bought the chewable vitmains & calcium from Unjury/Opurity. They have everything you need. Unfortunately they are really big and I just cant get past the taste of a chewable vitamin. I was glad I had bought them off a fellow Roux en Y gal so I hadn't paid full price. They ended up going to another gal cause I just couldn't take them.

Wellesse makes a nice liquid vitamin. The flavor is a bit like a 5 hour energy. Not great but not terrible.

I use a powder; all one senior there are also other versions: http://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_7?url=search-alias%3Dhpc&field-keywords=all%20one%20vitamin%20powder&sprefix=all+one%2Caps%2C235

and I buy from amazon

vitacost: http://www.vitacost.com/

lucky vitaman: http://www.luckyvitamin.com/

I tend to shop a lot at Amazon - with there prime shipping -- everything is shipped 2 days and free. Amazonsmile also gives a portion of your spending to your favorite charity.

After surgery, you may find it difficult to swallow some of the vitamins especially the large ones, so you may need a pill splitter and pill crusher.

I'm taking the chewable Centrum - got them at Walmart. Quick dissolve B-12 and Biotin I found at Walgreens (they often have buy 1 get 1 free sales on vitamins and that's when I stock up). I tried the liquid calcium from Wellesse, but it made me a bit queasy. The calcium chews from Bariatric Advantage are pretty good, but a little pricey. I finally found some lemon flavored chews that another user recommended and ordered them from Amazon - Calcet is the brand name. Those are my favorite - it's like a little lemon dessert after dinner!

I get my Multivitamin caps, Iron (ferrous fumarate) and B-complex liquid from Amazon.com. I get my calcium/vit D from costco.

Thank you everyone for all your responses!! Very helpful!!

I get everything from Walmart. Chewable Citrical with D, chewable D3, chewable Flintstones, dissolve B 12 and biotin.