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I use effervescent Vitamins currently and have my blood work today. I'll let you know!

Edit: I also use a spray Vitamin D in winter and sublingual B12 tabs.

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I was told to take gummy vitamins from the out set but they made me so queasy. They are made with gelatine. I was told I could change to cheap supermarket brand Vitamins with Iron, I take 2 a day, 1 in a morning and 1 at night. Working well for me.

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I have been reading so much on this forum and on another one. It amazes me how different things are between surgeons. Vitamin requirements, food transitioning, pre-op requirements. It is all so different from team to team.

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I wonder why the soft chews wouldn't work? I take them. But I'm a sleever.

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10 minutes ago, GradyCat said:

I wonder why the soft chews wouldn't work? I take them. But I'm a sleever.

soft chews would be fine. We were just told no gummies.

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I was also told not to take gummy vitamins. They do not provide the proper amount of Vitamins and minerals recommended by my program. Below is what is recommended by my program and also a label from a Gummy supplement (which, if you do a comparison, do not meet the criteria).

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You could take more but it still doesn't have zinc, manganese, magnesium, selenium, copper, and the Vitamin A comes from a different source. It doesn't matter to me because a chew is fine with me. All programs are different...I believe I've seen some where taking a Gummy is fine. It all gets so confusing when you see so much variation between programs. It would be nice to see what the bare minimum is and what is just the surgeon's or nutritionist's preferences.

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I was told that even for people it is hard to break down and absorb the nutrients in gummy vitamins and even harder for bariatric patients.

I don't prefer to take 10 pills a day, so I would use the bariatric ones for that reason alone. Plus if you have to double or triple the dosage, is it really any cheaper?

Frankly, who knows what is accurate or not. Every bariatric team has different opinions and requirements. If you trust your team enough to guide you and preform surgery on you than trust your team enough to take the supplements that they recommend.

At the end of the day, they blood work will tell you if whatever you choose to take is working or not anyway.

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2 hours ago, Flab-U-Less Forever said:

You could take more but it still doesn't have zinc, manganese, magnesium, selenium, copper, and the Vitamin A comes from a different source. It doesn't matter to me because a chew is fine with me. All programs are different...I believe I've seen some where taking a Gummy is fine. It all gets so confusing when you see so much variation between programs. It would be nice to see what the bare minimum is and what is just the surgeon's or nutritionist's preferences.

actually, I've only seen very few programs that allow gummies. Most say no...

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these are the guidelines of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. They give the requirements for all the common surgeries (including RNY and VSG) - might have to scroll down a ways to see it. As long as your Vitamins "fit" these requirements, you should be fine

ASMBS-Nutritional-Guidelines-2016-Update.pdf

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1 hour ago, catwoman7 said:

these are the guidelines of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. They give the requirements for all the common surgeries (including RNY and VSG) - might have to scroll down a ways to see it. As long as your Vitamins "fit" these requirements, you should be fine

ASMBS-Nutritional-Guidelines-2016-Update.pdf

Thanks for the link...I saved it so I had it for future reference!

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