I am 4 days post-op & really struggling with the flavour/texture of the chewable vitamins (Centrum multi & Life brand Calcium Citrate)... I pretty much start gagging the minute I put it into my mouth. My #1 greatest fear is throwing up.

Any recommendations or ideas?

I just saw the PatchMD multi-vitamin patch & the Calcium chewies... any recommendations?

16 minutes ago, LL44 said:

I just saw the PatchMD Multi-Vitamin patch & the Calcium chewies... any recommendations?

I have posted links. Same topic as yours, twice posted on at least this past week.

My nutritionist said no to patches! Flintstone chewables aren’t bad at all! I had RNY 2 Apr. Switching to pills for calcium because I can’t tolerate any of the chewables I found!

I like the Bariatric Advantage chewables. I bought the calcium and vitamins, they are like Starburst chews and taste great!

I am taking bariatric fusion chewables. They are mixed berry flavor.

I haven’t had chewable vitamins since I was a kid but I don’t think they are too bad. I take 4 a day though.

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I was told I had a few choices, an unjury product, a bariatric advantage product, or the celebrate product. I'm taking the watermelon flavored vitamin by celebrate and it tastes bad. Not terrible, but definitely bad. I need to look into those fusions...I think they specified a gastric bypass specific one.

I use Bariatric Advantage multivitamins and Vit. D with calcium, and I have their chewable Iron/Vit. C. I get sublingual B12 at the grocery store.

I like the taste of all of mine.

Check out Bariatric Fusion! It is one of only a few complete vitamins that includes calcium, B12 and the required mix of vitamins and minerals. It's available in 5 or 6 flavored tabs. It is taken 4 times a day. I had my Gastric bypass RNY surgery on May 2, 2018 and I've been very satisfied with this product!

Bariatric advantage chewy bites are AMAZING.

Thanks everyone...I have my post-op appt in 2 days so am going to run these options by them. I am also going to ask about Vitamin D... I haven't taken any yet bc I am afraid the taste will make me gag/vomit.

I am using bariatric advantage dark cherry chews. As far as vitamins go it is the best tasting so far and I have tried about 5 different ones. My nutritionist said after the first month no more flintstones as they do not have everything your body needs but they are fine for the first few weeks.

@passportx2 same here. Those taste so good.

Try... Celebrate Essential Multi 2 in 1. Mango flavor tastes good. It is a vitamin specific for Gastric Bypass, 4 chewables per day. Expensive but doesn't taste bad at all. Has the Multivitamin, Vitamin D and Calcium Citrate in one product. I like that they sell things in "day supply" format too.

... Also has tons of B12 in each chewable. The only thing you might have to supplement on the side would be iron if recommended by doctor. The iron would need to be taken 2 hours apart from the Celebrate.

Hunh didn't I read somewhere @ sinderliny that you can't. take iron and calcium at the same time as your multivitamin , something about cancelling each other out? So are you sure this is the right way to go? Hate for anyone to waste their $, they are so hard to come by!?