vitamins

I am having a brain fart here. What is the dose of vitamins i should get on average?

I think every surgeon is different in there requirements. Mine says 500 mcg of Vitamin b-12 and 1 multivitamin with iron. This has kept me healthy so it must work.

and what about calcium?

He didn't mention anything about it, but I am able to still drink milk. So I get it while I am getting my protein.

1500 mg calcium citrate. 3 500mg doses as we are able to absorb only that much at a time. At the ASBS conferences calcium and vitamin B (especially B-12) are brought up as problems all the time.

Our surgeon, Dr.Rehnke has us taking for the rest of our lifes a Pre-Natel vitamin called Duet, as a chewable multi-vitamin. Which I take at bedtime as my night time snack as it taste like chocolate pudding. Plus I've added a B complex & a B-12 pill every morning, with a Potassium pill because I'm still on a water pill. And a Iron pill with vitamin C as the C help the iron to absorb better every afternoon. And occassionaly a Tums type (Sams Brand)chewable whi*****ludes calcium in them. Thats it my 3 month blood work was perfect both my Primary & Surgeon agreed.

Both B12 and calcium deficencies will not show up in bloodwor****il a problem is MAJOR and sometimes irreversible damage has been done. B12 is not absorbed by us via pill form--it must be sub-lingual or intra-muscular shot. Tums is calcium carbonate and is not absorbed by post wls patients very well. Calcium carbonate needs stomach acid in order to be absorbed and Tums is an acid reducer. You may want to try and google this.

Micheal....Lynda is right...the reason your blood work is 'perfect' might because your body is leaching the calcium it needs from your BONES...so nothing will show up until you have a bone scan...or fall and break a hip...and....B12 will not absorb for us in pill form...it MUST be either sublingual or shots....the calcium you get from Tums is not what we need...we are supposed to have calcium citrate not calcium carbonate...thats a basic WLS rule.... Some of us are beginning to have trouble with liver function due to pre natals...you might want to talk to your surgeon about that....once I went off the pre natals...my liver function returned to normal.... Be careful with the postassium pills too....too much is also dangerous.... Hugs Charlie

It depends what surgery you had and what vitamins are necessary. i take 2 childrens' chewables, 1 calcium citrate 600D, B150 (highest b-complex), and an occassional iron pill. So far my labs are pretty good. Do a blood test to see what you're short on and get your primary to tell you though most of the time a multi-vitamin is good in addition to the rest.