What's your vitamin regime?

 Please share your vitamin regimes with me.  I am certain mine needs some tweaking ESPECIALLY since I have not been taking ADEK since Axcan Pharma became hard to access.  I KNOW how bad that is.  What do you all take for that?

Here's what I'm doing currently:

Morning:

2 iron pills, 2 folic acid pills (trying to get pregnant), 2 multivitamin pills (off brand of centrum), 20,000 ius of vitamin D (it's not dry, a green pill with oil inside)

Lunch, Dinner, Bedtime:

2 citricals dissolved in orange juice

 would also love to know what brands you use

Seriously?  When did you have your last labs done?  Your regimen is so very lacking that I truly am in fear for you life!  I pray that you have been watching your labs carefully at least every 6 months.  Here is my current regimen:

Upon Waking:  Vitality 4 (Multi and Calcium Combo)

AM Batch: 

500 mg Calcium Citrate (Puritans Pride)
1 A-25 (Bio-tech dry A 25,000 units)
1 D3-50 (Bio-tech dry D3 50,000 units)
1 K1 (Bio-tech dry K1 1000 mcg)
1 E  (Puritans Pride dry E 400 units)
Zinc (Puritans Pride 50 mg)
1 Hair, Skin and Nails (Natures Bounty)

Afternoon Batch 1:

Potassium (Script 10 mEq)
1 K1
1 D3-50
1 Hair, Skin and Nails

Afternoon Batch 2:  Vitality 4

Bedtime:

1 K2 (Doctors Best Natural K2 MenaQ7 Vegetable Capsules, Amazon)
1 A-25
1 E
1 Docusate Sodium
Prozac
1 Hair, Skin and Nails

 I have had my labs done every year.  My iron and D has been low, so I have a prescription for vitamin D and a few times had a round of prescription iron.  Everything else has been fine.

My DS book from the surgery center says this (looking at the one just issued to my husband, my old one had most of this info, but no the one about bariatric advantage multi):

-Multivitamin: Take a high potency multivitamin 

-ADE&K: in water-soluble form.  Recommends a multivitamin from Bariatric Advantage that contains the proper amount of vitamins and ADE&K in one tablet

-Calcium: Calcium Citrate + D, 1200-2000 mg a day, no more than 600 at a time and not with iron

-Iron: 18 mg per day ferrous fumerate

I have nothing against Bariatric Advantage, I would love to be able to take it and have my vitamin needs met, especially since they have the Multi with ADEK now.  They didn't have that when I had my DS.  

Unfortunately, my body needs much more than those multi's provide, and so do most DSer's.

Pill popping is getting on my nerves. but I know it's something I have to do for LIFE if I want to hang around!  I knew that out of the gate, but it does still bug me sometimes!

GRRR!!!

WOW you take very little. I have had to adjust a lot to find exactly what my body likes. My body is a complex puzzle, I am 10 months post op and my labs only need slight tweeks. I get my labs done every 3 months, as soon as I get a solid regime (which is very close i think) then I will do my labs every 6 months. I hope you are staying healthy with what you are taking, it scares me to see you take so little. I am not a doctor by any means but it just worries me is all.

I should also include that I get in 150g of protein minimum a day. Also I do not taken oral iron (because it rips me up badly) so I am a iron infusion gal:)


DS Vitamin Regime

Morning:
2 Tender Vitamin A-small yellowish capsule (25,000IU each)
1 Superior Source Vitamin B12-5000mcg each (small red tablet-sublingual) only M W F
2 Tender Calcium-300mg elemental each (blue capsule)
1 Desert Harvest B Complex w/out B6 (only M W F)
1 Tender Vitamin E-400IU each (white capsule {feels gritty})
1 Kirkland Mult Vitamin/Mineral (large cream tablet)
1 Puritans Pride Zinc-50mg each (white tablet)
1 Tender Vitamin K1-1,000mcg each (small white/cream capsule)
2 Tender Vitamin D3-5,000IU each (white capsule)

Morning Total:
A=50,000IU
B12=5,000mcg sublingual (only M W F)
Calcium=600mg elemental
B Complex-w/out B6=1 (only M W F)
E=400IU
Multi=1
Zinc=50mg
K1=1,000mcg
D3=10,000IU


Noon:
2 Tender Vitamin A-small yellowish capsule (25,000IU each)
1 Tender Vitamin E-400IU each (white capsule {feels gritty})
2 Tender Calcium-300mg elemental each (blue capsule)
1 Kirkland Mult Vitamin/Mineral (large cream tablet)
1 Tender Vitamin D3-50,000IU each (white capsule)
1 Puritans Pride Zinc-50mg each (white tablet)
1 Superior Source Vitamin B9 Folic Acid-1,200mcg each (small yellow tablet-sublingual)

Noon Total:
A=50,000IU
E=400IU
Calcium=600mg elemental
Multi =1
D3=50,000IU
Zinc=50mg
B-9 (folic acid)=1,200mcg sublingual


Evening:
2 Tender Calcium-300mg elemental each (blue capsule)
2 Tender Vitamin A-small yellowish capsule (25,000IU each)
1 Superior B1 Thiamin-100mg (white round tablet-sublingual)
2 Vitamin C-500mg each (orange chewable)
1 Tender Vitamin K1-1,000mcg each (small white/cream capsule)
1 Puritans Pride Copper-2mg each (white/gray tablet)
1 Tender Vitamin E-400IU (white capsule {feels gritty})

Evening Total:
Calcium=600mg elemental
A=50,000IU
B1 (thiamin)=100mg sublingual
C=1,000mg
K1=1000mcg
Copper=2mg
E-400IU


Bedtime:
2 Tender Magnesium Citrate-150mg each elemental (white & green capsules)
2 Tender Vitamin A-small yellowish capsule (25,000IU each)

Bedtime Total:
Magnesium Citrate=300mg elemental
A=50,000IU


Total Daily:
A 200,000UI
D3 60,000UI
E 1200IU
K 2000mcg
B Complex 1 (only M W F)
B1 100mg sublingual
B9 1,200mcg
B12 5,000mcg sublingual (only M W F)
C 1000mg
Multi Vitamin 2
Calcium 1800mg elemental
Mag Citrate 300mg elemental
Zinc 100mg
Copper 2mg

YEAH!!!!

This is what I'm talkin' about!!!

I don't feel right unless I'm working from a list a mile long, even though I'd like not to...just one thing you have to weigh (sorry for the pun!) before you decide to get on the DS Party Train!

lol yea it used to seem so much to me but now i take it so fast and easily its nothing anymore:)

 Danni, I asked Tali this as well, and am wondering about the amount of dry vitamin A you are taking. Did you get to this dose based on labs, or some other way? 8 of those a day is waay more than I've ever taken of them, and am wondering if I've missed the memo at some point in time.

The only thing I am taking in addition to yours is 10,000 vitamin A x 2 a day.  Of course I am only 6 weeks out and have yet to have my frist labs done but this is what I was given as a regimen and I am going to stick with it until I get my labs back.