Vitamins

[perforce 243]

As I ask this please bear in mind that I am very far pre-op (having the sleeve middle of next year) and I will talk to the consultant about this when the time comes, but I'm just wondering for now.

Do you need to take chewable/liquid Vitamins forever or are people (after some healing time I presume) able to go back to capsules? I ask because I take a Multivitamin now that seems to be pretty good (it contains most the stuff I see mentioned on here again and again). I would need Iron and Calcium, but I'd like to keep on it if I could.

Also, what kind of doses do you guys take? The bottle (I'll attach a pic) has the amounts and claim they're 100% of daily needs, but I don't know if they would apply after surgery? Some input would be appreciated.

Edited November 10, 2015 by perforce

[BLERDgirl 6,417]

chewables were temporary for me. Over the course of the year the amount of supplements also changed in response to my bloodwork.

[IncredibleShrinkingMan 437]

They say you'll be on chewables for approximately the first 30 days. There is a strict ban on gummies, as they are not absorbed to a sufficient extent, and that would be really bad in the early going. I take Alive! One A Day. The calcium citrate they approved of me taking by swallow right away (you need 4x 600 mg Ca, and you get some D3 doses with these tablets). I used Solgar from the Vitamin Shoppe for everything except the Multivitamin. The B12 and D3 you need are chewable and you'll do that from the beginning all the way on out, I think 1000 IU of each, and then a little more additional D3 with the Calcium tablets.