What brand of Calcium do you use? My surgeon recommended chewable (not gummies).....just wanted something that didn't taste too bad.

I use chewables currently Viactive in the purple bag chocolate flavor and Carmel are good to me and it has Vitamin D also

But ck with ur Surgeon to see if the allow that brand.

Currently I'm using the bariatric advantage brand chewable calcium that was recommended by my team. Chocolate is good I think. Haven't tried the caramel, they come in other flavors too , there's peanut butter and some fruit flavor. But I saw on Amazon that Kirkland (Costco) also has chewable calcium and I might try that, it was much cheaper. Amazon has a lot of different brands.

I just got the bariatric advantage chocolate calcium in the mail today from Amazon. Tasted good to me!

What kind of chewable multivitamins are you all using?

calcium -- for the first several weeks after surgery I used Wellesse liquid calcium, then switched to Citracal Petites. Those chewables tend to have tons of calories and carbs -- no thank you! Check with your surgeon to see if they want you to use calcium citrate rather than calcium carbonate. Many of the chewables (such as, I think, Viactiv) have calcium carbonate and many surgeons/dieticians do not want their sleeve patients taking that as we may have trouble absorbing it.

multi-vitamins -- started with Wellesse liquid multi for the first several weeks. Switched to a double dose of Trader Joe's High Potency Chewable multi (much cheaper, lower calorie, and lower carb than most other vitamins, especially the "bariatric formula" ones), then tapered down to a single dose after a year post-op. I have my bloodwork done regularly and it has always been great.

I use Calcet Calcium chocolate...... bought on BariatricChoice.com for $13.99. I think they taste good. I am currently taking Celebrate Orange Multivitamin but they taste nasty. I found online a multivitamin patch on PatchMD.com and my NUT approved it, as long as I add in 400mg of Folic Acid. I've ordered that and will start using it when the Celebrate runs out

@@Bufflehead - I did the Wellesse liquid too, for one bottles worth, post-op. I couldn't stomach the sweet taste.

Are you still the Citracal petites? do you break them in half?

@@jane13 I don't break them in half. I am able to tolerate them whole (barely).

@@Bufflehead thanks for answering I am breaking them in two. I am going to get a chewable brand they are just too big.

Thank you all so much for your kindness and support!

Yeah that's what I have is Caltrate petites, I started cutting them in half but now take them whole also and been fine so far.

Although, my surgeon says I'm not supposed to take any pills over the size of a pencil eraser and clearly these are much bigger.

So, I hope they're okay cause I don't wanna take the time to cut in half..and gummies I tried also. Too sweet! And tried bariatric advantage but really couldn't enjoy those either. These petites are my only hope.

How many of the citrical petites do you have to take a day to get 1500mg calcium (my surgeon's recommendation)?

Right now I'm using bariatric advantage chews, the 500 Mg variety 3x per day. Tropical orange has become my favorite. Caramel is good, but a bit too sweet for me. They have 4g carbs in each chew/1 g sugar, and are 15 calories each.

Ok my surgeon recommends 1000 a day, so the petites are 400mg each,

oops, I thought they were 500, I was only taking 2 a day. Anyways, I guess 3-4 day for you?

That could be a lot then because heads up, even though they say petites they are actually not that tiny..

they're not horse pills but half the size maybe. But it beats the super sweet citrical gummies.

I may even keep investigating because taking 3 of these a day I can say could get daunting.

I bought some Bariatric Advantage chews, but bought 250 mg by mistake. No way I'm eating six of those per day. So I bought some BariMelts brand as well to take too.

I'm hoping this thread will have some more good ideas for getting the full amount in without taking tons of pills or chews. If I don't find an alternative, I'll probably go with the bariatric advantage 500 mg chews, but I'm not thrilled about three chews per day indefinitely.