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Old 01-13-2009, 01:17 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Lake Worth, FL
WLS Type: Gastric Bypass
Surgeon: Dr. Robert Liem
Start Weight: 470
Current Weight: 235
Goal Weight: 235
Surgery Date: 06/08/2005
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Originally Posted by Corrine View Post
In fairness, I should ask exactly how much calcium you take on a daily basis.

The currently recommendation is between 1,500 and 2,000mg/day broken into 500mg doses.

For anyone else, before you decide to increase the WLS recommended doses of vitamins or supplements, run it by your doc/surgeon/NUT first.
I am taking 1500 mg daily. The problem (as I see it) was that this included 3x of the RDA of vitamin D, and I am already getting 2x with my multivitamin. I am guessing that I had been dosing 5x the RDA of vitamin D every day for over a year. And this is not accounting for the vitamin D I get from sunlight (and I live in Florida). Anyway, I'm not sure if we have any malabsorptive issues for vitamin D, but as my blood work indicated that I was getting more than I needed, I've cut out the "Plus D" vitamins.
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