Vitamins

My Dr checked my blood work and was getting too much vitamins so she asked me to cut the patch in half so we can see how it's working.

I use a multivitamin patch from patchmd.com it's $19 for a 30 day supply. No more need to take pills. ImageUploadedByBariatricPal1444012210.267688.jpg ImageUploadedByBariatricPal1444012359.224323.jpg

I use PATCHMD as well. Have you had labs done since you started using them ? I have labs next Friday and I'm hoping they are doing their job ????

Well I just ordered some. I am going to start them before surgery to try to build myself up and get use to it. I hope they work! I am having labs done Monday so I will have a good base point to compare.

Grocery store, Walmart, GNC or Vitamin Shoppe. I've never taken "bariatric" Vitamins not was I ever advised I needed special vitamins by my surgical team. I WAS advised to take a multivitamin morning and night, calcium citrate 3x per day separate from other supplements, a D3, A B12, and an Iron supplement taken separate from all other supplements. (Iron and calcium taken together mess with the iron absorption). I get them wherever it's convenient or on sale and I can find the right dosage. In the beginning, I did chewables. By about 6 months out I was on all tablets, or capsules. I also switched to a time release calcium once per day as I was forgetting the 3x calcium more than I was remembering it even with alarms, I'd be in a meeting, driving my car, at the store, etc and just forget it by the time I got back to my stash). I've always been compliant in the schedule. I quit the B12 after 1 year as my labs showed it WAY high. I also take Biotin, omeprazole and a probiotic. Just got my 2 year blood work back today and everything is perfect!

My doc does script through procare pharmacy and they go through your insurance mine were zero copay....the b12 is a nasal weekly spray and others are chewable.

I'm going to take my Nano Lifepak vitamins twice a day from a company called NuSkin/Pharmanex

My surgeon's office really wants us on Bariatric advantage for multi and calcium although there are still other options given, but it's the "preferred" so I went to the Bariatric advantage website and signed up for 30 day shipments of vitamins and calcium chews. It's free shipping if it's on autoship and it's out of my worry. I'm notorious for running out of vitamins and spending a week or two without before I get more and this way, after I have surgery, I'll never run out and I can change and tweek my order as I go so if I get sick of the caramel chewy bites 500(as if I could!) then I could always switch to one of the other flavors later.

I have an ADR (automatic delivery rewards) with NuSkin for that same reason: never want to run out

I get my Bariatric Advantage calcium chews through Bariatric Choice and the rest I get through Drugstore.com.

I was just about to post asking if anyone had tried these. And saw this post. Thought I'd peak in. I tasted these the orange one at the clinic one day. Then I tasted all the others at the Pharmacy today. I am switching!

I never had any pre-op Vitamins. I don't think Ive ever heard of anyone starting vitamins pre-op. Post op I used the KIND as my multi that I crushed and ate hidden in almond butter. I also crushed my calcium this way. At 6 weeks I was allowed to swallow pills. I finished out the KIND and went back to Centrium. I was on B12 for 6mths post op but no longer need it. Proabbaly didn't need it at all as my bloodwork levels on it always came in really high. Once they cut me down to once a month after I completed the bottle I stopped taking it. I had bloodwork 2 weeks ago and my levels are fine so I no longer take it. I never needed Iron pills.

It's part of my program to do all the vitamins pre-op to get used to taking them all. I did have D and Iron deficiencies. I was already on B12. But Idk if other programs do the same thing either way. I think it's been good for me to get used to what my life will really be like with the vitamins.