There's another thread out there now where someone took her supplements faithfully and is still B12 deficient. She probably wasn't told by her doctor that she needed to take B12 separately, as a sublingual (under the tongue) or a shot.
Doctors don't know everything (except ours! Dyann is the best I've ever seen, hands-down), and B12, in particular, is one of those things that, while it's listed in your multi-vitamin, probably isn't being absorbed from it. Stomach acids destroy B-12, so you have to take it some other way than just orally. In other words, it's hard enough to get what we need EVEN WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO DO IT RIGHT.
More than anything, I'm saying just get in the habit of taking your meds and supplements--you SHOULD feel guilty if you miss a day... but if you miss a month or so, you can make yourself ill without reason.
As a group, we have not been good at taking care of ourselves and keeping ourselves healthy, or we would not have been morbidly obese. We need to believe that we are worth the money and the time spent taking our supplements, because we are!
Edit: Oh, and thanks for not trying to knock me off my high horse, guys. Can you tell I get a little passionate about this subject?
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Lisa M
Lap RNY - 9/26/05
surgery/
lowest/
goal
Weight:
303/
137/
150
BMI:
56/
25.1/
27.4
Now in maintenance stage, with desired weight range: 150-153 pounds
Current weight: 139 Updated 10/21/08
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." Harvey Fierstein
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Originally Posted by Gina in NY
Doesn't matter what you can eat, just matters what you do eat.
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