WHAT VITAMINS ARE YOU ALL TAKING?

HI , WHAT KIND OF VITAMINS IS EVERYONE TAKING NOW, AND WHEN DOES EVERYONE START THE b12 SHOT OR WHAT EVER FORM IN COMES IN? I AM STILL HAVING A TIME GETTING ALL OF MINE IN. HOPE EVERY ONE IS ENJOYING THIS BEAUTIFUL FALL LIKE WEATHER, WE ARE GOING TO PLAY CORNHOLE TONIGHT, IT IS THE CRAZE AROUND HERE! LEATHA

What is cornhole? Sounds interesting! Tell, tell! Vitamins...ouchie subject for me lately. I am still taking four Optisource tabs a day but they hurt my 'healed' ulcers. I also take a liquid calcium supplement from Costco and it is NASTY. Supposedly I don't need it with the Optisource, but since I don't get a lot of dairy in my diet anymore it can't hurt. Extra supplements I take...sublingual b-12 (don't think I'll need any shots ever), magnesium and alpha lipoic (to help reduce smelly gas, supposedly). My surgeon's office is really insistent on our taking proper vitamins. Lately it has been discussed at every monthly support group meeting. Molly

http://yourhealth.nutrametrix.com/index.cfm?action=shopping.ntShopProducts&storeID=172&cat 1ID=USA12015&cat2ID=USA22052 I use the single bottle value size (90 day supply) with Iron. It's a powder that you mix with roughly 2 oz. water (the "measuring cup" is provided). The vitamins are absorbed within 5 minutes...I LOVE them. And they're gentle on my ulcer as well. My blood work has always come back perfect even when I've not been faithful in taking them. I've not needed any other supplements, ie. b-12. b-6, etc. Other than maybe some calcium. Those I get are chewable from The Vitamin Shoppe.

Gentle on your ulcer...wow! Do you only have to take this once a day? And is it totally nasty tasting? More questions...is it only the calcium you get from The Vitamin Shoppe or do you get the nutrametrix too? Anything that doesn't set off the ulcers is something I should try. I'm so glad Leatha posted this question or I'd never have heard of these. Molly

Molly, It's honestly not too bad tasting...lemony limish citrusy if that makes sense. It also has the tiniest bit of fizz to it, nothing that causes upset though. I can get it down even with the morning sickness. And yes, only once a day. It's best taken on an empty stomach, so as soon as I get up in the morning, I take it...go potty...fix breakfast and by that time you're good to go for eating. Like I said, doesn't take long to absorb, so it's not like you have to wait an hour before eating. The nutrametrix I get from my surgeon's office, BUT I'm thinking of ordering it from the website I showed you because it's a *****eaper there. And I get my calcium from the Vitamin Shoppe along with my protein powder (cheaper than GNC). If you'd like to try this vitamin, but are having a hard time with ordering/finding it...let me know. I can get it for you and send it to you. My OB is going to start carrying it for her preggos that are having a hard time swallowing the pills...so I may even be able to get it there as well. Let me know, I'll be happy to help. Sorry about your ulcer as well...they're definitely NO fun...and if you're like me...ulcer is REALLY sensitive.

Shawn, thank you so much for the information. I think when my supply of Optisource runs out (it is too pricey to just give up on completely...I have a bottle and a half still) I'll order some of the nutrametrix. Sounds like it would work great for me. I'll pass the info along to my nut. too. She's always looking for leads on good products to pass along to other patients. The ulcer is definitely no fun but it doesn't bother me as much now that I know what it is. I have had it since 1999 and worried so often that I had stomach cancer or something scary like that. With good medicine it is pretty simple to manage. That, and staying away from straight coffee. LOL Hope your tummy is doing ok. How long before your morning sickness goes away? Are you getting close to your second trimester yet? Hope it will be better soon! Molly

Molly, I understand what you mean about not wanting to waste pricey vitamins...or anything for that matter! I'm not usually an endorser of products but I do truly believe in this one and would recommend it to EVERYONE...post o*****t! My tummy is *alright*, I'm trying to manage it anyway. "How long before your morning sickness goes away?" I ask myself that question EVERY day. I'm 12 weeks and some plus days along, and I'm praying the sickness goes soon. I'll be posting an update on me here shortly. A couple of people have been asking for one. I Just need to get motivated to do it.

Leatha: The most important are the multivatimins and calcium, b12 only is recommend by your doctor due to low levels of b12 in your sistem and he will only be able to tell you after bloodwork. I had mine done at 4 months and it showed low leves so I started taking sublingual b12 and at the 8th month check up the levels were fine but doc suggested I keep taking it.

Hi I am from Cincinnati and cornhole has been HUGE there for years. We have a set and play here (Indiana)but no one ever knows what it is I am just on 2 vitamins and day and a calcium pill. My doctor does not have me do B12. My labs have turned out fine each time. Diana

Thanks everyone! WOW! I am on Building Blocks, I take 3 Multiple Vitamins-6 Calcium- 1 Iron, I wish I could say daily, but I can't, maybe 3 days a week. You can't take the Iron, if you take the Calcium, so I get so mixed up, when to take what with what, that I usually just forget it. I have to have blood work done this week for my 9 month check-up, so I have been trying extra hard, to get on the program. When can we start on Flintstone's chewables? Molly, cornhole is a safer version of horseshoes, I guess you could say. Even people older or with disabilites, can play easier. But you still have to be able to throw, and get a bean bag, it is a ( i THINK) one pound 6"x6" bag full of corn or beans, then 2 people on two teams, see who can get the most points, there are boards at each end, they are sorta tilted upwards, then they each have a hole(like a bullseye) and you try to get your bean bag in the hole, and it is harder than it sounds, but much fun!! My mother is 75, and she is our current Champion!! GO Mommy!! Diane my Mother-in-law brought the game from Indiana,that is where she lives part time, and what they do there! Maybe Diane can explain it better than I can, Thanks to all! Leatha