My surgery is April 4 andmy doctor told me to start taking my vitamins last week. I was told to take Flinstones multivitamins but I remember reading an article online saying they're actually not as good as other multivitamins. I dont know. I'm trying to salvage my hair and such. What were you told to take? For people who've already had the surgery, what helped you?

Flintstone are not what you want to take. Take a chewable multi vitamin such as Jamison I take 2 in the morning. This was after surgery, and I take 3 chewable calcium that are made by Jamison as well. Calcium citrate is better because it’s easier to be absorbed.

Flinstones complete are good per my NUT and very easy to take.

I take centrum adult chewable and they are great you feel the difference

I've take Swisse multivitamins

If you look at the section where it says magazine it will go into more details why flintstone is a bad choice...

My dietician does not recommend flintstones, vitamin patches, or the vitamin kreurig thing. She recommend the bariatric advantage chewable and then 2 cal chews- i take the BA solo with iron and then 2 hours later a cal chew and then a few hours later another chew. She said your body won't obsorb the calcium if you take right after the pill. After having the sleeve I developed a horrible texture issue and couldn't do the chews. They were like a super thick flintstone and made me gag

mine said Flintstones but I'd read quite a bit about them not having everything we need. I asked the nutritionist about Centrum (or the generic equivalent), and she said those were even better. Not sure why they just don't recommend Centrum instead. Although my surgery was almost four years ago - maybe they do recommend Centrum now (??). At any rate, I've been taking them this whole time. Chewables for the first few months, regular tablets now.

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I’m switching to bariatric fusion complete. $25 a month, 4 chewables a day that you can take 2 at a time. It’s all I’ll have to take. No additional pills except maybe iron since I’m not absorbing it and my b12 shots that I’ve been doing for a few years. I figure $25 a month for almost all my vitamins isn’t bad.

I’m pre-op and I’m taking barimelts vitamins. I never took vitamins before so I decided I better get into the habit before surgery.

I’m switching to bariatric fusion complete. $25 a month, 4 chewables a day that you can take 2 at a time. It’s all I’ll have to take. No additional pills except maybe iron since I’m not absorbing it and my b12 shots that I’ve been doing for a few years. I figure $25 a month for almost all my vitamins isn’t bad.

Don't you also have to take calcium?

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On 03/30/2019 at 22:16, Briswife15 said:

Don't you also have to take Calcium?

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Not according to my dietician. This has everything. They don’t taste as good as the bariatric ones from vitamin shoppe but the fewer pills the better!

My surgeon sent one year supply of bariatric multivitamins & iron to my insurance to collect b4 surgery. After that I plan to get the same ones unless my team says otherwise.

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On 3/25/2019 at 10:23 PM, Alikiinz said:

If you look at the section where it says magazine it will go into more details why flintstone is a bad choice...

Yeah I read that but honestly I'm kinda lost I don't know which one is best if not flinstones...

On 3/23/2019 at 12:34 PM, Alikiinz said:

Flintstone are not what you want to take. Take a chewable multi Vitamin such as Jamison I take 2 in the morning. This was after surgery, and I take 3 chewable Calcium that are made by Jamison as well. calcium citrate is better because it’s easier to be absorbed.

Does it have to be chewable?