I'm reading up on supplements. My doc highly recommends Bariatric Advantage supplements. They have one specifically designed for lap band patients.

Just curious - is it worth paying out the wazoo for these Vitamins? I read in another thread that lots of people used Centrum and flintstones vitamins.

Hi I have those in lemon creme flavor.They are so horrible

that I went and bought some flintstones vitamins and take them instead.They are like chewing {alkaseltzer} spelling. Save your money.

Man they r nasty!!!!!!!!!!!!! I use flintstones complete. Much better. Just take 2 daily :rolleyes2: my nutritionist gave me samples of the bariatric advantage..i could have died lol.

I take them, they are so horrible.

No, not worth it at all. I got a bunch of free sample in my info pack before surgery, the lemon creme are nasty though the watermelon were ok. Then I looked online at the prices -- my gosh they're outrageous

I find that if I cut regular generic $10 for 200 vitamins in half they go down just fine.

I don't like Flintstones either (taste or texture).

We've also had gummi-vitamins -- look and taste just like gummi-bears, they're great! and while more expesive than generics they're still half the cost of the vastly overpriced bariatric advangage vitamins.

Edited September 22, 200817 yr by mnn2501

Flintstones it is then lol

Rather than Flintstones chewables - I bought the Walmart generic brand - worked just as well and were a bit cheaper!

I'm reading up on supplements. My doc highly recommends Bariatric Advantage supplements. They have one specifically designed for lap band patients.

Just curious - is it worth paying out the wazoo for these Vitamins? I read in another thread that lots of people used Centrum and flintstones vitamins.

I got the bulding blocks vitamins specifically for bariatrics from my surgeons office. ALthough i do need some advice too. im scared to take them in fear they will get stuck lol defeats the purpose haha :rolleyes2:

My offices reasoning to specifically take this sort of specialized Vitamin is that research was done and the mix of vitamins offered, help the most with hairloss due to rapid weight loss and lack of absorption. of course lapband doesnt have the absorption issue but we can lack nutrients and still have hair loss. That is why i bought them however, I took the offices word on it.

Man I had one chocolate Calcium chew and it almost did me in. That was the biggest chalkiest nastiest thing I've had in a while! I think they tend to lump us bandsters in with bypass patients. We don't have malabsorption issues and my doc told us our hair would fall out some at 3-6 months regardless of what supplements we took because it is caused by trauma and NOT Vitamin deficiency.

I say NO don't waste your money. Buy citrical petites for calcium (they are little and you can take them easily) and your favorite chewable vitamin.