Iwant2Bthin

Hi All,

I am 13 months post-op and was wondering if most or any of you still take the chewable vitamins. I would like to try taking just a regular kind of vitamin for a change. What do you do?

Thanks,
Kerry

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~Kerry~
Surgery date 9/22/08

277/154/150
highest/current/goal

mistymee

I do still use chewables bariatric vitamins. I also use some gelcaps of other supplements, that I suck a bit to soften before swallowing.. (umm..some of them don't have great flavor, lol)

And I take a couple tablets that are on the small side that I just swallow.

For me, I don't like the bloated feeling I get when I drink to swallow the reg. vitamins so I went back to chewables. It just took too much fluid at once to get them down.

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MiladyB

I take the chewable multi-vitamin and vitamin C but take my iron, calcium, zinc and vitamin D in pill form. Just a matter of personal preference. My surgeon was fine with me going back on pills at 3 months out.

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~Beth~

Little Victories; Grand Rapids, MI
Bariatric Support Group

Diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, high cholesterol,
peripheral vein disease, joint pain and 210 lbs GONE!!


Century Club: July 3, 2006
ONE-derland: Dec. 22, 2006
Double Century: May 29, 2007
Goal: June 15, 2008

Lap RNY: 1/30/06-Dr Randal Baker
TT/BL: 09/21/07-Dr Ronald Ford
PS Revisions: 04/29/08-Dr Ronald Ford
Gallbladder: 05/14/08-Dr Randal Baker
Emergency surgery (Intussusception): 02/29/09-Dr James Foote

poet_kelly

The chewables were making me nauseous. Now I use ENS from Celebrate, which is a drink mix. I use Upcal D for my calcium, which is powder that you mix in your drink. I get my iron and D3 from pills that I swallow. And I use the B12 patch.

Kelly

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RNY 11/4/08

surgery/current/goal
270/147/130

Claire-in-Texas

No, I take a multi-vitamin - Centrum Silver because of my age - in pill form. I get B-12 from the B-12 patch, and calcium pills.

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Claire, AKA ClaireBear
4'9.25"
Lap RNY - 4/9/07. Pre-op, 236 lbs - Current: 104 lbs. - Goal: 126 lbs.
CENTURY CLUB: 11/26/07 Wooo Hoooooo!!!
WAY more than HALF of me, 132 lbs., GONE!!!!!

Size 3 in skinny jeans, Petite Small in all else!

T-T Cruise 2008 Memories and PHOTOS thread: http://www.thinnertimesforum.com/soc...-memories.html

Vikkator

I take everything in pill form.

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Vicki

RNY 11/04/2008

248/139/138
Pre-op/Current/Goal

One more freakin' pound...

Iwant2Bthin

Thanks for the info! I am B12 deficient so I do injections for that.

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~Kerry~
Surgery date 9/22/08

277/154/150
highest/current/goal

Godsblessedme

I will be 2 YEARS out next month (wow) and i STILL take chewable vitamins (bariatric formula kind only. Building Blocks) and my labs are perfect every 6 months so i'm going to continue with those. They are still the best way we absorb them, but if your going to do regular vits now i still suggest a bariatric type of vitamin

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Deborah
Highest weight 268
Surgery Date: 12/18/07 Lap RNY
Current Loss: However far this journey will take me Current Weight:175 (10/26/09) and finally a SIZE 12

Hippy Shake

I take chewable adult multivites and calcium, liquid iron and dissolvable B12 strips. I am nearly five years out and consistently perfect lab result. Chewables and liquids absorb better.

Sherry_Lynn

I use Celebrates non-chewable multi and calcium. I take everything in pill form, can't stand the taste of the chewables.

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Sherry Lynn

Proud Mom of two Saint Bernard Puppies, George & Gracie

Lap RNY





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