hello dear friends! i'm new around here. i really needed to ask about this because my doc is very optimistic(!) i constantly ask about my doctor and other doctors about if i have to take vitamin supplement for the rest of my life. they say no it's not necessary because you had gastric sleeve not gastric bypass. does is really tho? i'm reading all of you and everyone is taking supplements. can you inform me? i feel very stressed, i can't think about something else.

Oh that's odd. My surgeon and I'm sure many others say YES to vitamins for life.

3 minutes ago, KCgirl061 said:

Oh that's odd. My surgeon and I'm sure many others say YES to Vitamins for life.

it's super weird, if it's necessary just say so. i don't get it. do you take multivitamins or specific ones like b12?

3 minutes ago, nyhmp said:

it's super weird, if it's necessary just say so. i don't get it. do you take Multivitamins or specific ones like B12?

I was taking B12 in addition to my mulitvitamin and I was actually getting so much B12 that my levels were double what they needed to be. My surgeon looked at the multi and determined that it had enough B12 without me having to take the extra pill. I also take calcium chews 3x a day.

I was told yes, take vitamins for life because you cannot eat enough volume to get everything from food.

I was told yes, vitamins for life.

During my pre OP class last week the nurse and dietitian spent equal amount of time talking about how important vitamins are as they did on protein. As a matter of fact I've already started taking B12 liquid. I will be sleeved on April 29th.

I was also told that I'll have to take vitamins for life...weird, indeed.

I think it all depends on how your blood tests are looking after surgery..multiple blood tests of course. Even if one eats really well I think it's hard to get all the vitamins and nutrients out of food these days. They just aren't there anymore. So I would think this is a most likely event, some kinds of vitamins for life. But honestly, we probably should have been taking them long ago anyway!

5 hours ago, nyhmp said:

hello dear friends! i'm new around here. i really needed to ask about this because my doc is very optimistic(!) i constantly ask about my doctor and other doctors about if i have to take Vitamin supplement for the rest of my life. they say no it's not necessary because you had gastric sleeve not gastric bypass. does is really tho? i'm reading all of you and everyone is taking supplements. can you inform me? i feel very stressed, i can't think about something else.

That's odd. Each person I saw surgeon, dietitian, nurses always said multivitamins for life plus B complex and D3.

i had my sleeve in turkey, here in bunch of qualified docs say that and i’m very confused. “vitamins absorb in small intestine and sleeve op doesn’t intervene the intestine. but in bypass digestive system changes and vitamins can’t be absorbed in intestine so yes bypass patients need to use but sleeve patient doesn’t” here’s the argument.

The default position of ASMBS (that's the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery) is that vitamins for life. The two qualifiers on that is that ASMBS is somewhat RNY-centric, and the other is that we will likely need to be taking something for life, if not from the surgery, then from some other health issues we may have, or just simple aging. Periodic labs will point us toward what we need individually, In time (as in a few years) we can indeed eat enough volume to have a healthy, balanced diet that provides all, or at least most, of the nutrition that we need. The key is whether or not we maintain a diet that can do that - many get into various fad diets that can have significant deficiencies, or just fall back into a more typical Western junk-filled diet that is likewise deficient, so supplements are needed.

I currently only take a multivitamin every other day as my labs were running high on most everything covered, so we are cutting back on them and may eliminate it altogether. I do still take calcium as that was a need for me pre-op, but no major change on that from the surgery once diet once again moved toward normalcy.

Here are a couple of videos from a surgeon who describes some of these issues. The main take-away from the first is how our eating volume progresses over the years, so that in time we can eat upwards of about half of what we could pre-op, which is plenty to maintain a healthy diet (though I don't necessarily buy into everything this guy says...)"

This second one addresses vitamins more specifically, and how different procedures influence vitamin need:

58 minutes ago, RickM said:

The default position of ASMBS (that's the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery) is that Vitamins for life. The two qualifiers on that is that ASMBS is somewhat RNY-centric, and the other is that we will likely need to be taking something for life, if not from the surgery, then from some other health issues we may have, or just simple aging. Periodic labs will point us toward what we need individually, In time (as in a few years) we can indeed eat enough volume to have a healthy, balanced diet that provides all, or at least most, of the nutrition that we need. The key is whether or not we maintain a diet that can do that - many get into various fad diets that can have significant deficiencies, or just fall back into a more typical Western junk-filled diet that is likewise deficient, so supplements are needed.

Here are a couple of videos from a surgeon who describes some of these issues. The main take-away from the first is how our eating volume progresses over the years, so that in time we can eat upwards of about half of what we could pre-op, which is plenty to maintain a healthy diet (though I don't necessarily buy into everything this guy says...)"

This second one addresses vitamins more specifically, and how different procedures influence Vitamin need:

amazing reply, thank you for sharing these videos. it really informed me and i feel so much better.

Yes vitamins for life

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